Apple again offers matte screen option for 15-inch MacBook Pro

Post by pmjordan » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 8:15 PM UTC

electromagnetic wrote: post #29

pmjordan wrote: post #26

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It's odd, though - in some European countries, the glossy screens are considered ergonomically harmful and are therefore banned from the workplace. So you can't give your employees iMacs, smaller Macbooks, etc. to work on. You'd think Apple would be a bit keener to sell to businesses.

Apple traditionally hasn't sold to businesses due to Big Corporations apparent desire to quash anything capable of spurring original thought in its workers. Business is packed full of contradictions from rules they've created for themselves, like using uniforms and team building exercises to help the workers feel part of a group, but positively crap themselves at the idea of their workers unionising due to feeling li…

Post by alaskamiller » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 8:24 PM UTC

martythemaniak wrote: post #4

Cool. Even the handsome narcissists like me get tired of looking at themselves all day long.

Post by cookiecaper » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 8:32 PM UTC

modoc wrote: post #18

cookiecaper wrote: post #3

In what situation would someone prefer glossy? I don't get that. Glossy is obviously much worse. Can someone explain this to me?

I use my laptop mostly indoors in my home office with controlled lighting. The glossy screen looks better, deeper blacks, more vibrant colors, etc... While I wouldn't use it for photo or pre-press work, I really like it in general.

Post by tedunangst » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 8:40 PM UTC

cookiecaper wrote: post #35

modoc wrote: post #18

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I use my laptop mostly indoors in my home office with controlled lighting. The glossy screen looks better, deeper blacks, more vibrant colors, etc... While I wouldn't use it for photo or pre-press work, I really like it in general.

But isn't the point of a laptop portability? The glossy screen makes it significantly less portable -- in anything but ideal lighting, everything in front of the screen is reflected in a way that interferes with the intended image. That just doesn't sound conducive to usefulness in a laptop. If you just use it inside your home office, why buy a laptop in the first place?

Post by SwellJoe » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 9:06 PM UTC

LegionSB wrote: post #32

yalestar wrote: post #9

Amen to this. I've never understood the appeal of glossy displays. To me they're almost unusuable except under the most ideal lighting conditions.

Nonsense. You have it backwards. Matte screens really require the ideal lighting conditions. Easy test: take one of each, and go outside. Sunlight washes out a matte screen to the point of being impossible to use. Glossy screens reflect much of that light away, leaving the screen still legible. As someone that used to do a lot of work outdoors on a laptop, there's no comparison. Glossy screens are usable in FAR, FAR…