The beauty of 1280x1024 is that you have a distorted screen ratio and have more vertical real-estate than you realize. Having a big dashboard like that at 1280x1024 takes up a smaller fraction of vertical pixels than using it at 1024x768 or 1600x1200 would. Likewise, this would probably use up a smaller fraction of vertical pixels than the letterbox frame does at a 4:3 screen ratio.
All that said, I personally don't care for dashboard UIs. It does look nice though taco-man.
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