hw requirements

[Peter Robinson]

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 16:09 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 05:57:56AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> > > - 1024x768 resolution (or 1024x600?)
>> > > Too conservative?
>> > Is anyone shipping anything below 1366x768 now? Probably worth checking
>> > what the requirements for the Windows hardware certification are.
>>
>> It might be nice to keep 1024x768 projectors in mind.
>
> VMs are also quite commonly 1024x768. Indeed, someone pointed out to me
> recently - don't remember the context - that if you have a 1366x768
> laptop, which is still a perfectly common configuration, the largest
> 'nested' display (i.e. VM) you can run without using fullscreen is
> 800x600, really.

There's still a lot of netbooks and those sort of low end devices with
1024x600 screens too

Peter