I guess the computer makers wanted to ensure that computers can be used to watch movies more effectively, and hence converted to a 16:9 aspect ratio a few years back. But I feel it has not really been a good move. I am sure there are people that use laptops primarily to watch movies. But I think there are a lot more users who use computers for other purposes, especially browsing the internet. Most of the web content is still designed for lower resolution screens. It really makes a good portion of the wide screen redundant. My laptop has an HD screen with 1920x1200 resolution. And attached is a scaled down version of the screenshot of a Rediff page on it. I think well over 50% of my screen is not used, when browsing general internet content. Duh! What were they thinking?! I guess the only gain for me is that the keyboards are a little more comfortable to use, given the wider dimensions. But when I see some of the pages, I wish I could swivel the screen to switch length and width!
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The advantage of wide screen is that you can have multiple windows side by side. This used to be a pain to resize them properly, but in Windows 7, if you drag the window off to the left or right, it resizes to exactly half the screen. Cool.
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