Yes, in my opinion the magazine sizing they show in the picture is close to the limit most people would want. Cutting the sideways size doesn't give enough port

Yes, in my opinion the magazine sizing they show in the picture is close to the limit most people would want. Cutting the sideways size doesn't give enough portability benefit to justify losing so much screen space. The manufacturers have got it right in the direction they have been going, to increase battery life, decrease the size of the bezel, decrease weight and thickness, and also improve robustness and waterproofing, so that it is no more of a hassle to carry around than a magazine, and so that you could read it like a magazine (or a tablet). We're not too far away from that. The Macbook, the Surface and the Chromebook Flip are all in the 0.9-1kg range, now it's incremental progress to reduce weight to 500-600g, improve fanless performance, and meet all the other goals above. We'll probably also see commodity pricing of fanless processors through ARM competition with Core-M, so that the prices of these devices end up closer to the Chromebook Flip than the Surface.