Day of 2/8/2002: Screen Resolution and Color Depth

Screen Resolution

Computers offering at least 640x480 pixels, but less than 800x600 pixels, are reported as 640x480, and so on.
# Resolution Computers %
1 640x480 14,799 2.96
2 800x600 170,140 34.07
3 1024x768 253,827 50.83
4 1280x1024 49,895 9.99
5 1600x1200 and above 10,727 2.15

Screen Depth (Number of Colors)

Note: computers reporting 16 colors may in some cases be grayscale devices. Most 16-color computers are Windows machines temporarily running in safe mode.
# Color Depth Computers %
1 Black and White (1 bit) 551 0.11
2 4 Gray Shades (2 bit) 1 0.00
3 16 Colors (4 bit) 426 0.09
4 256 Colors (8 bit) 16,438 3.29
5 65,536 Colors (16 bit) 233,890 46.85
6 Millions of Colors (24 bit) 64,952 13.01
7 Millions of Colors (32 bit) 182,940 36.65