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I remember reading most of these and buying the BeOS CD (which I still have). It was fun for a while, but I ended up moving to the Mac full-time.

Funny how the 4:3 video windows look dated these days.

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Huh. I'm pining for 4:3 screen for a development laptop. My main use case is coding, not watching movies :)

16:10 screen tilted is really nice for text / coding

I find doing that to my laptop makes typing more difficult.

Just a matter of adjusting your typing habits, and finding a laptop with 16:10 screen :)

FWIW, several of the google-made chromebooks are 3:2 ratio - it's pretty nice.

Indeed. The "tallest" resolution for laptops these days the rare 3:2 (surface laptops, possibly also the HP Spectre x2), followed by the odd 16:10 (actually is there any laptop manufacturer using 16:10 other than Apple?).

16:10 or 16:9 have the convenience that (at fixed diagonal) they have good support for multiple columns, but this comes at a severe cost to vertical space & total surface area.

Though IIRC for some types of FPS widescreen resolutions is also good (as long as the FOV is configurable) as it gives a wider field of view.

Personally, I am not a big fan of widescreen monitors, although I can work with them. I loved the 1280x1024 monitor I used to have on my previous PC.

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