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Tallscreen, not widescreen
I totally agree with Jasper Warwick about widescreen notebooks.
We write database applications and widescreens are becoming a problem for us especially when the application has to be used on desktops and notebooks. I'm not sure of the 'side by side' document argument as each document is probably at 50% or less of full size and therefore not exactly readable.
I had hoped the widescreen thing would be a fad, but now desktop monitors are going that way it looks like they are here to stay.
For business use, if screens were going to change shape they really should have gone tall. After all, the paper we print on is portrait and web pages tend to be of fixed width and unlimited height.
I wonder what percentage of notebooks are actually used to play movies on a regular basis? Or perhaps the screens are designed for people who max out Excel's 255 column limit.
Andrew Kennard
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