I agree Keith. When a company I worked for upgraded to 17 inch flat panel displays and dual core CPUs, I configured them for 1024x768. Many of the users requested a change back to 800x600

Over 97% of their work was done using a terminal emulator that configured itself to the same resolution regardless of the Windows settings.

The 3% of their work done using Excel was why they liked the larger text size of the 800x600 screen.