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It is much more difficult to change a Matte screen to glossy.
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“Note: It is easy to add a matte filter to a glossy screen, if one desires or needs a non-glossy surface.”
No-glare screens are still a BTO option, and one I hope won’t go away.
They need to offer both options. Pro photographers make up a big portion of the Mac’s devoted base and you can’t color correct photos with a a separate anti-glare filter on the monitor. It’s hard to color calibrate even the glass covered monitors of the current iMac.
Too often, photographers have to move images from ad hoc workrooms in gyms and arenas with terrible lighting and no glare control. A matte screen is essential. I made the mistake of buying a laptop with a glossy screen and have regretted it for two years.
I’m thinking about finding one of the last generation MBPs with a matte screen before it’s too late.
I think they did away with firewire on the less expensive macbook. If so, that sucks because if you have a firewire based video camera, you can’t use it now unless it also has a UBS connection.
I have a glossy WUXGA, because there are (apparently) no matte WUXGA displays available.
I am a little puzzled what the point of the glossy display is. It’s not awful, but it doesn’t really make a lot of sense to me. Maybe it’s more durable?
I’ve been thinking about upgrading to one of those MacBook Pros. I’m going down to an Apple store and check it out. :-)
Can you post some links of high quality matte filters, I have to tell you that I tried a new Sony Vaio with glossy display, in about twenty minutes in a normal lit room my eyes were burning, felt like I was on the beach, I returned the laptop because of that.
However with a matte Macbook Pro, I can look at the screen all day with NO eyestrain, I will never use glossy.
Apple has outdone itself with its obsessive-compulsive level of attention to detail. I mean, the attention paid to just the sleep indicator light? Spend two months getting the track pad texture right? Go though hundreds of versions of the thumb scoop where you open the display to get it right? It’s insane, and I love it.
I’m trying to think of any other manufacturer of anything in the world that does this and all I can think of is maybe a high-end Swiss watch maker like Patek Philippe.
Nice capsule review, but the author is incorrect on one point. If you check Precision Machine Design by MIT’s Alex Slocum, you’ll find aluminum extolled for its material stability.