Comments on: MacBook: About the glossy screen http://www.betalogue.com/2006/05/30/macbook-about-the-glossy-screen/ Notes from an unfinished world… Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pierre Igot http://www.betalogue.com/2006/05/30/macbook-about-the-glossy-screen/comment-page-1/#comment-7028 Pierre Igot Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:48:36 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2006/05/30/macbook-about-the-glossy-screen/#comment-7028 Thanks for sharing. I definitely didn't keep the MacBook for long enough (that <a href="http://www.betalogue.com/2006/06/04/macbook-the-mooing-noise-disaster/" rel="nofollow">mooing</a> thing) to acquire the kind of experience you have. Thanks for sharing. I definitely didn’t keep the MacBook for long enough (that mooing thing) to acquire the kind of experience you have.

]]> By: danridley http://www.betalogue.com/2006/05/30/macbook-about-the-glossy-screen/comment-page-1/#comment-7026 danridley Thu, 31 May 2007 23:03:39 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2006/05/30/macbook-about-the-glossy-screen/#comment-7026 I have been pleasantly surprised by the versatility of the glossy screen on my MacBook. Where I use it most of the time, in a home office with diffuse lighting, I'd prefer the matte screen -- but the glossy screen is actually far more usable in weird lighting, outdoors, or near skylights and picture windows. The glare is mildly distracting, but it remains only mildly distracting in situations where matte screens just end up completely washed out. This is the first notebook I've ever owned that I can use outdoors on a sunny day without having to find shade and still squint. I'd still definitely want matte on any desktop displays that I bought, but at this point I'd go with glossy without a second thought on a new notebook. This position would have really surprised me-from-a-year-ago. I have been pleasantly surprised by the versatility of the glossy screen on my MacBook. Where I use it most of the time, in a home office with diffuse lighting, I’d prefer the matte screen — but the glossy screen is actually far more usable in weird lighting, outdoors, or near skylights and picture windows. The glare is mildly distracting, but it remains only mildly distracting in situations where matte screens just end up completely washed out. This is the first notebook I’ve ever owned that I can use outdoors on a sunny day without having to find shade and still squint.

I’d still definitely want matte on any desktop displays that I bought, but at this point I’d go with glossy without a second thought on a new notebook. This position would have really surprised me-from-a-year-ago.

]]> By: MacBook not bright enough  »Technology News | Venture Capital, Startups, Silicon Valley, Web 2.0 Tech http://www.betalogue.com/2006/05/30/macbook-about-the-glossy-screen/comment-page-1/#comment-7024 MacBook not bright enough  »Technology News | Venture Capital, Startups, Silicon Valley, Web 2.0 Tech Thu, 31 May 2007 18:33:41 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2006/05/30/macbook-about-the-glossy-screen/#comment-7024 [...] Note: I wish I had read this months ago. [...] [...] Note: I wish I had read this months ago. [...]

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