Cancelling Order! No to Glossy!

[FragTek]

After using my glossy screened MBP in tons of various areas and different lighting situations I have yet to "adjust" my screen to get rid of any annoying glare.

I think the original poster blew it out of proportion a little too much...

 

[LifeCoach]

the glossy screen is beautiful. i love it. i've never noticed any glare.

 

[smartalic34]

would the matte screen or glossy screen fare better in outside/sunlit environments? does the matte screen wash out in sunlight?

 

[GimmeSlack12]

Wow, this has gotten ugly. I've never seen a thread get so nasty in the MR's.

KNOCK IT OFF everyone!

Particularly MarchCapital. I'm gonna say you instigated a lot of this. But Josh you can coolit too.
We were talking about the reflection coefficient of the screen and we turned it into a huge pissing contest. Lame.

Man, if you don't want one then don't buy one, don't get your panties into a bind and whine to all of us about it (MarchCapital).

 

[Krevnik]

Folks, before you listen to these complainers, sit in front of a MacBook, turned on and bright, at an angle that mimics the angle you will use to work...i.e. the screen right in front of you, not off at some odd angle.

When using the MacBook, you don't see any reflections. Sometimes I think these posts just come from Microsoft employees to try to stem the rising Apple tide. The screens are great. No reflections when you work.

Hate to tell you this, but the rising Apple tide is where the MS employees are coming from. My building alone has gotten 3-4 MBP users, partly because of Boot Camp. Non-MacBU guys are getting just as many MBPs as the MacBU guys, if not more (and the Redmond MacBU is in the building next door). Now, the Windows Vista division is different, but even there, people are having fun seeing how well the MBP runs Vista, and getting it dual-booting.

I have a hard time believing that these posts are MS employees spreading FUD. MS when it wants to attack a competitor, they do it loudly, and in public.

The OP is a result of Apple's policy actually. Apple wants few choices in their lineup to keep it simple. But when they change something in that lineup, in the product aimed at a consumer, which that consumer doesn't like... well... this happens. It doesn't happen at Dell, because Dell has a half-dozen other models aimed at the same customer. Apple doesn't have a replacement for the MB if you don't like something about it.