Since pages are commonly A4, if you want to see two of them side by side, you need an A3 screen, which happens to have the same proportions as A4 on its side, i.e. approximately 1.4:1, or 7:5. This is only about 5% wider than a 4:3 screen.

So you might as well use a 4:3 screen, and if you fit in two pages exactly side by side, you actually get some room free at the top or bottom for a toolbar or menubar etc.

I wonder if the author bothered to read the screenshot, that he provided. The CPU is marked 1.3GHz, and the clock speed is 1.733GHz, which means exactly 33% overclock. There is no mention of the switch between integrated graphics, and NVidia GPU, which gives a lot of flexibility: the user can choose between battery saving setting and GPU power. Other magazines have far more accurate recensions, watch out for them

No one picked up on the dimensions yet???

"386mm wide, 259mm deep and 264mm thick"

and for the Crackbook Poo...

364mm wide, 249mm deep and 241mm thick

Yoiks!

How does the power curvature roll out? Would it need less juice for a single core 2.6ghz vs a dual 1.3ghz. There would be almost half the silicon to charge.

But at 1366x768 you can't fit anything side by side. It's too small. I use HPs LP2475 at 1920x1200 which is perfect for using the side by side layout. You can fit 2x A4 at 100% which is what you want. The 16:10 layout is perfect!

Looking at laptops at around 15 inches the 1440x900 16:10 screen it so much better.
At 1366x768 your hands are tightly tied behind your back and your productivity level drops significantly due to the face that you constantly need to scroll up and down in your documents.
Just open a .pdf file in IExplorer and see how much of the document you can actually display. One third of the screen is eaten up by the browser itself with favorites + Acrobat Reader. You're left with something like about 500 pix. in height and I'm sorry, but that isn't much more than a new Smartphone...
Claiming the screen is good for anything but watching movies is just nonsense.

Try it and see for yourself. :)

I have used wide screen monitors at work. It helps you to see two documents at the same time, one beside the other. Quite often one needs to reference a document while working on a second one.

"Where the screen does excel is in its 16:9 format,..."

Why would you want a 16:9 screen? It is only good for one thing, and one thing only - watching movies.
When it comes to productivity in business areas it is utterly useless.
When typing documents or working with text based materials you want an overview of the document, an overview a 16:9 screen never gives you.
Talk about tricking the consumer with a hype format.