Seconded. Just a year ago I upgraded from my 4+ year old laptop with a 17" 1920x1200 resolution screen (LOVED IT!) to a new 18" laptop with 1920x1080. I thought I wouldn't notice those missing 120 lines...boy was I wrong.
My only options at the time (taking other requirements into consideration) were to drop down to a 16" screen (and missing some other features), or go up to this laptop that's trying to be a portable home-theatre system...and that's the crux of this problem.
The display industry is so facinated on the HDTV aspect that they think EVERYTHING needs to max out at 1920x1080, or the cinema spec of 16:9. My wifes new desktop came with a 1600x900 screen and it really sucks. With all the menubars that IE and Firefox insist on putting at the top, and then the big taskbar at the bottom you end up having a narrow band to read in. Add in the fact that most sites put adds down the left and right sides, and the effective usable resolution of the screen is about 640x480.
And don't get me started on the "glossy" screens that are standard today...yech.
Dan