>What are the implications for projectors at conferences with a wide screen? I'm facing the unavoidable need to get a new laptop and am scratching my head about what type of screen to get (and what type of screen I like). The super-shiny new screens drive me crazy because of the glare, but they do look nice. Widescreen looks nice, but I don't want to paint myself into a corner technically for presentations.

Well I got one of those (actually two, if we count my desktop's monitor, both at 1440x900) and I'm happy with them. For a presentation you can switch to, say, 1024x786, 1200x1024 or something like that. May look a bit ugly on the monitor, as it will stretch/compress the pixels proportionately, but the projection should look right.

And I've found that the glare is irritating only on the frame, not on the screen itself. Surprised me there, I was expecting anything but that.