I recently bought a Dell Vostro laptop, which I'm very pleased with. A great bit of kit. While shopping around I was surprised to see the screen size and body casing of most laptops in high street shops, that is, a shiny body and a 15.6 inch widescreen screen.

The thing is, most people use laptops for web browsing, sending emails, uploading photos, creating documents, etc and the widescreen format just isn't the best for that. If you want to watch movies, then great, but I would think that would account for a fraction of the use of laptops. Also, why do the manufacturers insist in covering LCD displays with highly reflective 'enhancing' coatings and then surrounding them with shiny, eye-strain inducing, black plastic?

So that's why I plumped for a laptop with a 15.4 inch non-coated screen and a matt black body.

The graphic below shows the difference between the widescreen 15.6 inch format (in green) and the 15.4 inch format (in blue).