I think this is a pretty good example here:
http://www.thescreamonline.com/techn...nitor_res.html

Personally I still design for the 800 browser for the most part - there are a few sites that I do up it to 1024. I think it is the control part actually in me - I like to maintain a little control (well a lot actually)

Usually when you buy a new computer - a new monitor is not needed since the avergae lifespan seems to be about 60,000-80,000 hours of use. I would hope though now that people with a 3.8G processor and 2G of ram would still not be using that monitor they had eight years ago