Agree on the wide-but-short monitors, Jar, I looked at them at Fry's over the weekend and was not that impressed. The 34" is only about 1/2" taller than my current monitors.
That's why I bought the 2560x1440's... Right now I'm using a couple of 22" 1920x1080 monitors that are about 5 years old, so I'll use these until the "one wide *** screen with shitloads of pixels" monitors are affordable... And I have a laptop that will drive one effectively.