Widescreen External Display - What happens?

My daughter wants an external display for her iBook G4 and has noticed that most on the shelves are widescreen. Since she's likely to upgrade to a MacBook or MacBook Pro before too long, she'd like to buy a widescreen monitor.
But I'm not sure what will happen hooking an iBook, which has the older, squarer, aspect ratio, up to a widescreen monitor (or what a "widescreen" MacBook will do when hooked to a standard "square" monitor, for that matter.)
I'd be grateful if someone can shed light on these questions.
Thanks!
Greg

You can enable dual screen mode (please note this is un approved by Apple, and will Void your warranty)
paste the following into a plain text, Textedit document and save it as .command, then double click it
#!/bin/sh
echo Enabling iBook dualhead mode...
echo "You may have to enter your password"
sudo nvram nvramrc='" /" select-dev
00000000 " graphic-options" get-my-property 2drop !
unselect
sudo nvram "use-nvramrc?"=true
echo done.
After that it will reset, and enable dual screen mode,
to reset it to normal use at terminal:
sudo nvram "use-nvramrc?"=false
On dual screen mode, the max the Ati can support is 1600x1200 at 75 hz and million of colors. And will use wide screen without trouble.
Hope it can be of of assistance.

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