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I can't deal with these 16:9 screens. Especially when almost all models have a plastic "chin" at the bottom of the screen where the missing pixels (to make it a full 16:10 screen) would be - there's clearly room for it, so put it there.

16:9 is optimized for watching video and not much else. Give me back my pixels. Luckily some vendors have finally begun to see the light on this issue (Dell XPS, Huawei Mate, LG Gram - Microsoft even goes 3:2).

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Man I would love for 4:3 screens to make a comeback. The way things are going, I'm expecting 10,000,000x1 displays to be common in a few years.

It's astounding to me that nobody is making modern 4:3 screens. I made my Thinkpad T60 last far longer than it should've just because I didn't want to give up the aspect ratio.

I think the closest you can get is 3:2 on the Microsoft Surface line for modern laptops, which is even more vertical real estate.

actually that's slightly wider than 4:3

(1.5 vs 1.33)

doh, thanks

I really like 21x9 on the desktop since you can split it in half and be pretty close to two 4x3 monitors (1.16 vs 1.33).

For laptops, one of the main limiting factors is the "width when in a bag", or simply the "height". Standard 15"/16" is the limit of most backpack widths.

Going to 3:2 or 4:3 would simply mean a narrower screen, if you want to keep the same backpack-ability.

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