Aspect Ratio & Screen Resolution

Do I have this right?

If I'm comparing a 14.1 inch standard aspect ratio screen (XGA) and a 14.1 widescreen (WXGA), they will both have the same information on the screen vertically (like a Word document). The difference is that the letters on the widescreen will be smaller. Correct?

Comparing a 14.1 widescreen (WXGA) and a 15.4 widescreen (WXGA), the 15.4 will show more lines on the Word document because the screen has more vertical space and the letters will be the same size. Right?

 

it's not only the text which is smaller.. everything is smaller.. imagine a letter you hold in your hands.. on one you can fit about 30 lines with 60 characters each (XGA) on the other you may be able to fit 35 lines with 70 characters each.. so the higher the resolution, the more information is immediately accessible (without scrolling and such), but it will be smaller

 

Yes to your first question, no to your second question. The two WXGA screens have the same resolution and therefore the same number of dots to display an image; you will have the same number of lines in a Word document but the letters will be bigger on the 15.4" screen.

 

Basically a 14.1" screen that is xga has a resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels, a WXGA screen (widescreen) has 1280 x 768 pixels. This means that the widescreen will be able to show more horizontally, but the same amount of information vertically as the non widescreen (XGA) screen

Since the 14.1 and the 15.4 screen are both WXGA, they will both show exactly the same amount of information, since they both have the same resolutions

 

WXGA is a stretched version of XGA. You won't have any more vertical space, but you'll have extra horizontal room, which is convenient for Internet surfing and just about everything.
The text will not be any smaller.