4:3 screens: yes, but on laptops. Given an equally wide laptop 4:3 gives much more space to work on. I wonder if there would be space for large touchpads but the Thinkpad&#x2F;stick fans won&#x27;t care. My personal sweetspot on laptops was 16:10.<p>For standalone monitors, nobody was making screens as wide (in cm) as the ones we have now, at a reasonable price. You could have two 4:3 monitors side by side which is 8:3 or 16:6, worse than 16:9 for the same width.<p>I add: 15&quot; laptops without numberpads (Macs don&#x27;t count, I don&#x27;t like OSX and their keyboards and the buttonless touchpad)