Whenever there is a post even vaguely related to keyboards I come to the comments for the Model M references.

I am never disappointed. /Model M owner

I came here to say almost the same thing. 24" widescreen at 1920x1200 gives me room for four 80x25 terminal windows open with a large readable font, or if I want to I can maximize one terminal window and see almost forever.

I've never thought of a widescreen as a smaller version of a 4.3 aspect screen. I think of it as a 4.3 screen with extra space on the sides.