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There are a bunch of new laptops with 16:10 screens.
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I have to work with windows side by side a lot, and mice have scroll wheels. I need width, not height. Gaming in 4:3 is putting you at a disadvantage, as you can't see far left or right. >

I work with many developers who use a pair of 1920x1080 monitors. Some enjoy rotating  one monitor 90° so they can read long documents or code listings while using the second monitor for other things like emails and spreadsheets. Personally I use an acer 32inch 2560x1440 monitor that I really like. If you look around there are monitors that let you carve up the display into multiple windows you can set the width and height of. This custom resolution is also available when using windows remote desktop. In the advanced settings you can set the display resolution you want to use. Personally I'd rather have more pixels than I need. >

I agree, especially in gaming it's better to see everything around your character, not just on the sides, but what's above and below her as well. The same is true for movies. These days I feel some of them are too wide for my eyes.
The only thing widescreen is good for is viewing documents side by side. As someone who works with documents I have to agree with that point... still we don't know how it would feel on larger 4:3 monitors, if those existed. >

fucking amen!!
widescreen is good only for movies, bring back 4:3 for computers!! they'll look ancient but it's the way to go, just imagine hundreds of millions of people and PCs working in offices that visualize just documents on their monitors and it's a monitor intended just for movies and not documents... unbelievable uh?... plus social media are quite vertical in UI, i'm visualizing reddit now with two giant blank portions of screen on the sides, and if i increase the magnification to fit on the screen it just sucks!! >

Ah yeah, the stupid website designs! It's a competition to see who can leave the most blank space either side a strip of content. >

HAHAHA i dunno, you made me think about it, probably if the posts are made wider to be shorter in height they'll look like lines and being awful... it's a problem of screens intended for other than visualizing social media >

I'm glad that 4:3 aspect-ratio monitors don't exist anymore, but talking about 16:10 I'm hand down agreeing with you (one of the reasons I keep buying apple laptops)