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1-2% is a bit low.

I actually tested this several months ago for one my projects and it was about 5% (on a sample of few hundreds). That's a very respectable 1 in 20. Not that I disagree with your ROI point, it's just that playing well with non-default DPIs becomes progressively more important now.

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But was your project more oriented towards a tech audience or the general population. Over a few hundred people, especially tech people, for example your very likely to get a very very low IE user base compared to the average user ;)

There's some bias, no doubt, and the sample is barely representative. But the thing is that there's lots of new hardware, like Thinkpads, that ships pre-configured with higher DPI. Drop by drop, but this will tilt the scales .. if it hasn't already.

I totally agree, all I'm saying is that the numbers aren't there yet for most software shops, especially if you consider the added costs.

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