4x3 screen preferred? 128 key keyboard?

[Almskaar]

Two technical questions for those that know these kinds of things. Goodness knows i don't know!

Question 1. I play mostly exclusively WDS/JTS Nappy games on a laptop. I want to make the ultimate setup since i'm moving and will have a desk to game. From what i can see, while the world has moved on to 16x9 aspect ratio, and WDS games do a great job of adjusting to these different ratios, the title screens seem, to me, to be in 4x3. And that kinda makes sense. Putting the Hex Info Area on the top or to the side works...sort of. To me, it seems that these games would play better on the old school ratios they were designed on. Should me external monitor be 4x3?

For example, they make this gorgeous, 17" LED HD monitor for $62! (With coupon.) https://amzn.to/4hi9kK7 Is this a good idea? I can then turn my small, 16x9 on its side and make that hold the PDFs. I dunno. I think this is a great idea. Do you?

Question 2. And this has the possibility of making my gaming experience like NASA's Mission Control Center! Does anyone have any experience with X-Keys? They started with a 24 key programmable keyboard and now have a 60, 80, and as i've linked, 128 keyboard! https://amzn.to/4bGqCiX

You can make a Black Powder board to handle all your Nappy games and your ACW games all in one place! Maybe more!

Not only can you print out colored tabs and recreate the toolbar, but you could also possibly add shortcuts that don't exist like Mode > Play By E-Mail.

Thoughts?

Go Suns,

Tony Hernandez, Phoenix

I bought a 42" TV for $40 on FB marketplace and I love it, the hexes in 2D normal view are the same size as hexes in 2D magnified on my laptop (15") but of course you can see so much more of the map. I never considered a different aspect ratio so I tried it just now, going to 4:3 the map is squished but maybe there's a fix. I'll be sticking with 16:9.

I count 11 hot keys that I use regularly and it hasn't taken much to memorize those so I'm content with a regular old keyboard, although I can imagine a custom keyboard would be optimal.

Sorry, this probably isn't actually very helpful