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Despite the increasing amount of widescreen displays most stuff still seems to be formatted for 4:3 (I'm not complaining, I still run 21" 4:3 CRTs and have old 4:3 laptops). I don't use sidebars/widgets/gagdets, just a basic clean full screen layout so for most applications/web sites the extra width of a widescreen display is dead space.
I found a too good to refuse deal on a widescreen Toshiba laptop. I used it for a few days before selling it and going back to my old Thinkpad 600X. Despite the fact that Toshiba was much newer and faster for me it was unusable. The shiny LCD picked up glare at any angle. The keyboard felt awful and I just can't use a touchpad after years with trackballs and trackpoints. I think I'll just track down newer Thinkpads (real pre-Lenovo Thinkpads) as I find them.
What I find more frustrating about the transistion to 16:9 in general is that so much stuff that I've seen on TV lately has obviously been shot in 4:3 and then masked for 16:9. Not just background is masked out, but often the tops of peoples heads are masked out as well. If it was shot in 4:3, just show it in 4:3!
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