Rant Do you like Widescreen LCDs?

I prefer widescreens, but only if they don't just sacrifice the resolution to make it wide.

 

Moved from 15 inch normal to 19 inch widescreen won't ever go back. But then again I AM talking about a 15 inch I moved from LOL

 

Here's my take on it:





30" widescreen. Because you can never, ever have too much.

 

Nexxo, how do you get the partitions onto your sidebar?

 

Weak, Nexxo.
http://dream.eng.uci.edu/sungjin/tileviewer/images/dscn4789.jpg

 

Do want

I don't really see the point in maximising a window either, I keep most of mine maxed but that's only because my screen is a bit too small to have two windows displaying at once.

 

It's a gadget: http://paradox31102.deviantart.com/art/Sidebar-Seperator-68313901

If you just want to throw in some resizable empty space to separate the gadgets, download the gadget "Empty Space": http://www.vistasidebar.com/vsb/content/view/35/42/

Proves my point though: you can never have too much...

 

Well yeah. But it also shows you don't have nearly enough

I can just imagine some forum member maximizing Bit across the whole array, and just have some entire novel-sized posts stretched out across one line.

 

ive got a 15.4 widescreen on the laptop, and am wanting to get either a 20 or 24 inch widescreen as well

 

Wait until I get that second hand football stadium screen up and running that I got on eBay... just need to tweak the drivers a bit...

You know it has to be done. Bit-Meet! Bring your monitor!

 

Currently on MBP's 15" wide. Bit small for movies, but isn't a disaster. Survivable

 

O/T
Hey nexxo, your drive gadget, how did you manage to get yours so close together? Mine has a gap in between each drive gadget...

 

Yes. Actually I adore my 24" screen. It's great not only when watching movies (1080 goodness and any wide material) but also when just browsing sites (heard of multitasking? I have winamp/downloads/SSH client on the right side and "normal shaped" browser on the left) wides also shine on photo editing as shown below. Actually I sold my last screen to my father who's enthusiastic photographer and he's been very pleased with the shape of it. Here's an example why I do love it so much:



I had a 20" screen before this one and with that the idea was still kinda missing as the height was still only 1050 pixels.

 

I think that 24" has to be the best combo of Screen real estate / price at the moment.

 

16:10 > 4:3

mainly because it gives sort of more natureal POV - it just feels better to read on my 15.4 MBP than on my desktop rig, which is why I don't use it that much anymore

 

I love them - 2 windows open side by side, or wide screen gaming - the extra real estate is so much better. 1680x1050 = my preferred resolution.

 

You can add more than one drive per gadget rather than just adding in multiple gadgets.

 

I agree that for some things widescreen is a pain but as many others have said WS is great for movies and games (but only those that properly support WS).

Fixes I've found for WS issues:
Move the taskbar to the left edge of the screen.
WideScreenGamingForum
GridMove: automatically & easily resize windows (I Love this program)

 

i think tyinsar should be barred from posting any screengrabs or mentioning his monitor setup in the future. it makes me too jealous.

 

I've been looking for something just like this for ages- cheers!