Of course "widescreen" is just another way of saying "reduced height"
(a widescreen monitor may have the same diagonal size, but has significantly less pixels than a 'normal' 4:3 aspect ratio screen 19" screen. If you watch a lot of movies on it widescreen may be a good idea, but for 'normal' use? Not so much.
(a widescreen monitor may have the same diagonal size, but has significantly less pixels than a 'normal' 4:3 aspect ratio screen 19" screen. If you watch a lot of movies on it widescreen may be a good idea, but for 'normal' use? Not so much.
You are amazingly misinformed if that's what you believe.
Just because a screen is widescreen doesn't mean it has less vertical resolution at all. It MIGHT... But just because you have a 19" 4:3 doesn't mean it can do 1600x1200 any more than any other monitor. My 24" dell does 1920x1200. I would hardly call that "reduced height". 16:10 is just that... 16:10. 4:3 is 4:3... More or less pixels depends on how good the monitor is, not whether it's widescreen or not.
And as for "normal use"... Wide screen high res means you have more real estate (16.6666% more to be exact comparing 4:3-1600x1200 to 16:10-1920x1200) to work with. And that real estate works great in any application including games. I seriously can't think of any application that can't benefit from the increased screen size.