Day of 2/14/2002: 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 15,465 2.90
2 800x600 180,268 33.86
3 1024x768 271,373 50.97
4 1280x1024 53,799 10.10
5 1600x1200 and above 11,507 2.16

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) 584 0.11
2 4 Gray Shades (2 bit) 1 0.00
3 16 Colors (4 bit) 443 0.08
4 256 Colors (8 bit) 17,406 3.27
5 65,536 Colors (16 bit) 248,347 46.66
6 Millions of Colors (24 bit) 69,223 13.01
7 Millions of Colors (32 bit) 196,191 36.86