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All Dell monitors must support 32 bits color

190 points posted to Monitors and Displays by winoffice Apr 29

Just now I came across a Dell widescreen flat panel LCD monitor, the E198WFP (http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Displays/productdetail.aspx?c=us&...). Alongside the fact that this monitor does not have 1920x1200 (which already makes me unlikely to buy it), even worse, the monitor only supports 24 bits color (click "Tech Specs" and see "Color Support' under "Display")! Today there exists much software that will not even install or run (without 32 bits), and yet some Dell monitors come with only 24 bits! That makes this monitor completely not viable for most use. Dell needs to upgrade all non-32 bits monitors to 32 bits color.

mandarinka
May 15		 Thats nonsense. 32bit color is only used in 32 (direct 3d or opengl) aplications, because the last 8bits are alpha (transparency) channel. When it comes to color resolution, 32bits = 24bits = 8bits per channel (8b red, 8b green, 8b blue).
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