Best applications for a widescreen laptop?

[RoboG2]

Now that my widescreen laptop is basically all set-up with the programs and setting I want, what freeware programs, games, etc. do you think would take full advantage of the widescreen?  I can never have enough free software! 

EDIT:  Actually, any freeware software would be useful.  By that I mean for web design, image manipulation, video creating/editing, flash editing, video capture, games, etc.  Anything really. 

Thanks in advance!

[Howard_Casto]

How is this related to arcade controls??? 

(This should be in everything else.)

Mame supports the wide aspects as does virtually any skinnable fe (the aspect will be distorted, but when you make the skin you can take that into account).  For emulation, that's about it. 


But as a whole, laptops still suck for gaming, as do any lcd screen for that matter.  Of course some people will argue otherwise, but those people aren't sensitive to low refresh rates and excessive "flicker". 

[Dire Radiant]

Really the only reason for making a laptop in anything other than 4:3 is for watching widescreen DVDs. Widescreen might work for movies where you're usually going to be sitting further away but it blows as a gaming standard (And as Howard pointed out, so do TFTs in general)

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah that's pretty much my thoughts.  When you buy a widescreen laptop you are basically buying an overpriced, portable dvd player.  (If you'll notice, it's hard to buy one without a dvd drive installed.) 

Most windows apps don't "scale" so that throws out usefullness in general computer use.  Tables don't even have more room in apps as usually the width of the table is fixed.