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Last year Apple switched, almost entirely, to glossy screens on its line of notebooks. It’s more extreme than simply a move to glossy, the new Apple notebook displays are actually covered with a thin piece of glass. Aesthetically, few will argue that the new MacBook and MacBook Pro are at the top of their class, but the tradeoff is noticeable.
I took this picture outdoors last year comparing the previous generation MacBook Pro to the new glass-covered model:
That’s a bit exaggerated since the system is off. With the display on and at full brightness, it’s still pretty distracting:
Indoors however, it’s not a problem. Here’s the old MacBook vs. the new MacBook:
In fact, indoors, I do actually prefer some glossy screens to their matte counterparts. If I were still in school doing a lot of work on nice spring or fall days outside, I would go insane trying to use the new glossy notebooks; the brickyard at NCSU had very little in the way of shade from the sun. These days, I do most of my work inside and thus don’t really have an issue with the glossy displays.
If we see that more users are using their notebooks as desktop replacements, then perhaps the matte vs. glossy debate doesn’t really matter to the majority of users. So I ask you: do you prefer matte or glossy screens? Do you use your notebook mostly indoors or outdoors? Is any form of glossy screen acceptable or is completely matte the only option? Apple went to the extreme with its glass-covered displays, but they are selling well - should the rest of the industry follow?
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I prefer matte for any outside use. The Apple glossy screen looks fantastic indoors, in limited/restricted lighting, but I have a lot of glass exposure in my home, and therefore tons of glare. I really like some of the led backlit displays, such as a recently purchased a Asus netbook. Don't think that the industry should all move to glossy, there is clearly a market for "matte"rs.
I prefer matte for the same reasons mentioned above. Hurray for Apple offering the option again! I would not upgrade my MacBook Pro 15" until they did. But along with the matte/glossy debate, there is another screen annoyance I wish Apple would address: It bugs the heck out of me that they don't offer a 1080HD option for the 15"! Other vendors have 19x12 displays. Anyone else feel this way?
1. Matte screens
2. I mostly use it indoors
3. Glossy is unacceptable, the more matte the better
4. Apple always sell great with stupid products
Yes, I'm a ThinkPad addict. I like Linux too (but uses Win 7)
Q: Do you prefer matte or glossy screens?
A: Matte
Q: Do you use your notebook mostly indoors or outdoors?
A: Outdoors
Q: Is any form of glossy screen acceptable or is completely matte the only option?
A: Glossy = inacceptable; Matte = the only option
Q: Apple went to the extreme with its glass-covered displays, but they are selling well - should the rest of the industry follow?
A: No way.
Glossy = Consumer Idiocy.
I will not buy anything "glossy".
@jet = Only the 1920x1080 screen on the XPS 16 is special because it's RGB LED with a wide color gamut that works much better for photographs. I usually don't like glossy screens but I live with this one because of the color production and resolution; it's also bright enough.
Like the author, I have traditionally preferred glossy indoors and matte outdoors. Glossy has provided better contrast and color reproduction, which means that text is more readable, which is most important to me.
Keep in mind that glossy makes a low quality display look even worse. I bought a Gateway laptop that had a stock glossy with washed out looking colors that I was able to replace with the glossy display from a previous notebook. My primary complaint is that you really need a bright display if you go glossy. My current screen isn't even LED backlit, and the newer laptop screens are, so brightness and reflection would be even less of an issue now.
I saw a Dell laptop in the store the other day with an LED backlit glossy display that looked amazing. I would have liked to have taken it outside to see what it looked like in the sun. I'm not sure that even the newer, brighter, more uniformly lit LED backlit displays would be peferrable to matte outdoors, but it might possibly be the case. I've only ever been slightly concerned with glossy reflection indoors, usually when I'm sitting next to a window and the sun is shining in from behind -- a situation easily fixed, if it bothered me enough to do anything about it, and usually that is not the case.
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