Glossy or Matte Screen?

[trmcculloch]

thats **** - i want a mac book and i want matte

[Yuiichi]

Nothing we can do about that my friend. Apple decided that since the Macbook was their consumer laptop, they would give the consumer the best looking screen possible. I don't think they thought designers would buy the consumer laptops, so they didn't have the option to change the screen.

I can assure you thought that it looks fabulous, although not exactly what all other people see. I guess you could use an external display too to get the best of both worlds.

[sprint]

Thx y'all!
I think you made me decide for the matte one.

I think glossy would be great when I want to watch some movies or something like that. But since i'm working with modeling and designing, matte is a better choice.

No one talked about it, but i think glossy attracts more fingerprints too, doesn't it?

[snavem]

Originally Posted by sprint

Thx y'all!
No one talked about it, but i think glossy attracts more fingerprints too, doesn't it?

Right you are, but when do you plan on touching your screen anyway?

the Matte screen still looks brilliant so you have made a good choice no matter what screen you get.

[baseballboy828]

It doesn't attract fingerprints, it shows them more. Also, are you planning to touch the screen?

[essjay]

I think theres only one question that you really need to think about. What sort of environment are you working in? The glossy screen does reflect and it can be a bit distracting at time, but only if you work in an environment that would cause bright reflections. If you don't, then glossy is the way to go.

I don't quite get what people are saying about how accurate the screens are, surely if you are into design seriously then you are going to configure your screen to take that into account anyway. Also, if you work in printed media then the glossy will be closer anyway. Theres also the fact that a substantial amount of screens out there are glossy, you've got all MacBooks, a certain amount of MBPs a whole load of Sonys (I think they call it X Brite, it was Onyx Black back when I had one...) and a number of other manufacturers as well. Why would you intentionally pick the poorer display just to match other people's poor displays. its like designing a monochrome website because of the three people out there without colour monitors.

[sprint]

Originally Posted by baseballboy828

It doesn't attract fingerprints, it shows them more. Also, are you planning to touch the screen?

I don't, but there's always that annoying guy that knows nothing about manners and "Hey, click there!!" touches the whole thing...