I disagree with a few points here... First off, consumer offerings, like TVs, and perhaps laptops, are all at 16:9, sure, but almost any decent computer monito

I disagree with a few points here... First off, consumer offerings, like TVs, and perhaps laptops, are all at 16:9, sure, but almost any decent computer monitor (from Dell, HP, Apple, etc.) are 16:10. Even if I'm off base, 16:10 is certainly not hard to find. Second, while I agree that computing activities lend themselves well to vertical orientation, like you suggest, they lend themselves even more to multi displays and multi tasking. So the question is do you really want 2 or 4 or 8 vertical displays, with a physical seam between each of them, or do you want 1 or 2 or 3 horizontal displays, all split in two with your window manager, and with fewer physical seams ? I organize my workspaces vertically, and I have 3x 16:10 monitors split into (roughly) 6 vertical workspaces. I only have two physical seams. If monitors were not horizontal, I would have 6 displays with 5 vertical seams. So if you're working on a laptop, or have just one screen, I feel your pain. But big computer monitors are better off horizontal (and in threes :)