Can you elaborate on this? I have never seen this issue described. How exactly does nanometer sized holes lasered into glass “peel off”?
Are you conflating nano texture with the antiglare coating on MacBooks?
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Hands-On With the iPad Pro's Nano-Texture Glass - Is It Worth the Upgrade?
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Are you conflating nano texture with the antiglare coating on MacBooks?
As an oldie with incipient cataracts (but not, my opthalmologist tells me, worth doing anything about at this stage), the nano-texture screen strains my eyes less. But what am I going to fill that terabyte with?
Dropping $2k on a gimped device that doesn’t even have a keyboard is wild to me.
A MBP makes infinitely more sense.
A MBP makes infinitely more sense.
So glad I went with nano texture. Was a bit worried about smudging and cleaning, but it holds up better then my old ipad pro did and cleans easily with the cloth once a day and screen is awsome in all lighting conditions.
Nano texture should be an option for all M4 iPad Pro storage configurations. It is a bit weird it is only available for 1 TB+ models.
In your iPad videos you basically say you hold the iPad with one hand and write with the other. I use Apple Pencil with my iPad Pro (keyboards are for zombies 🤖) and most of the time the iPad rests on a desk or table when I use the Pencil.
In your iPad videos you basically say you hold the iPad with one hand and write with the other. I use Apple Pencil with my iPad Pro (keyboards are for zombies 🤖) and most of the time the iPad rests on a desk or table when I use the Pencil.
It’s a different process, and clearly one that Apple designed with a touchscreen in mind.
I just bought a matte screen protector for $12 on Amazon and it is incredible. No finger prints, and the texture feels great to the touch.
The M4 iPad Pro models that Apple released earlier this year have a display upgrade option that allows you to purchase nano-texture display glass, which is supposed to cut down on glare.
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We've already reviewed the iPad Pro, but we thought we'd revisit the nano-texture glass upgrade to see if it's worth the purchase price.
First introduced with the Pro Display XDR, nano-texture glass is etched at a nanometer scale, which is meant to preserve image quality while scattering ambient light to cut down on glare. It is the most matte display type that Apple makes, and Apple claims that it is useful for high-end, color-managed workflows or demanding ambient lighting environments.
The iPad Pro is the first iPad with nano-texture as an option, and it's previously been reserved for the Studio Display and Pro Display XDR. Nano-texture is a premium feature, so it costs an additional $100 over the standard glass. It's also only available on 1TB or 2TB iPad Pro models, so you do need to shell out at least $1,600 to get it on the 1TB 11-inch iPad Pro.
Nano-texture on the larger iPad Pro will cost at least $1,999, which is the price of the 1TB model plus an extra $100 for the glass upgrade. It is an upgrade targeted at pro users and those with specific needs, and not everyone is going to want to opt for the matte design. The grippier texture of the nano-glass does feel better for writing on with an Apple Pencil, but if that's a factor for you, you're better off checking out something like Astropad's Rock Paper Pencil.
While nano-texture does a good job cutting down on glare, it does impact the contrast and crispness of the display, so it is serving a specific purpose for select workflows where mitigating light is important.
As with the nano-texture versions of Apple's displays, the nano-texture iPad Pro requires some special care. Apple recommends only cleaning it with the polishing cloth that's included in the box as other cleaning cloths can cause damage.
Given the caveats and the high price tag, the nano-texture display isn't for everyone, but it is a good option for those who know they need extra help addressing glare.
Article Link: Hands-On With the iPad Pro's Nano-Texture Glass - Is It Worth the Upgrade?
Let’s be honest, if you said it wasn’t you would lose your invites to Apple campus.
It's not bad, but at the price I'd consider getting this instead: https://www.padformusician.com/en/padmu/34-40-padmu-4.html#/2-version-double
The nano texture on the iPad Pro is different from the one on the Pro Display.
OP - or anyone using Nano Texture - when I was at the store at launch, I noticed the nano texture had a RED hue applied to the whites and generally over everything. Not enough to disturb the image quality but enough to effect color correction/professional color calibration work flows.
The M4 iPad Pro models that Apple released earlier this year have a display upgrade option that allows you to purchase nano-texture display glass, which is supposed to cut down on glare.
Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos.
We've already reviewed the iPad Pro, but we thought we'd revisit the nano-texture glass upgrade to see if it's worth the purchase price.
First introduced with the Pro Display XDR, nano-texture glass is etched at a nanometer scale, which is meant to preserve image quality while scattering ambient light to cut down on glare. It is the most matte display type that Apple makes, and Apple claims that it is useful for high-end, color-managed workflows or demanding ambient lighting environments.
The iPad Pro is the first iPad with nano-texture as an option, and it's previously been reserved for the Studio Display and Pro Display XDR. Nano-texture is a premium feature, so it costs an additional $100 over the standard glass. It's also only available on 1TB or 2TB iPad Pro models, so you do need to shell out at least $1,600 to get it on the 1TB 11-inch iPad Pro.
Nano-texture on the larger iPad Pro will cost at least $1,999, which is the price of the 1TB model plus an extra $100 for the glass upgrade. It is an upgrade targeted at pro users and those with specific needs, and not everyone is going to want to opt for the matte design. The grippier texture of the nano-glass does feel better for writing on with an Apple Pencil, but if that's a factor for you, you're better off checking out something like Astropad's Rock Paper Pencil.
While nano-texture does a good job cutting down on glare, it does impact the contrast and crispness of the display, so it is serving a specific purpose for select workflows where mitigating light is important.
As with the nano-texture versions of Apple's displays, the nano-texture iPad Pro requires some special care. Apple recommends only cleaning it with the polishing cloth that's included in the box as other cleaning cloths can cause damage.
Given the caveats and the high price tag, the nano-texture display isn't for everyone, but it is a good option for those who know they need extra help addressing glare.
Article Link: Hands-On With the iPad Pro's Nano-Texture Glass - Is It Worth the Upgrade?
Did anyone else experience that?
How do you fit that on an airplane tray table???
A $14 ESR magnetic protector mitigates that issue entirely though. And then you can easily take it off for the nice contrasty video playback.
Oh, are we going back to matte displays? Back in the CRT days, it was something new when they introduced glossy displays. My thought at that time was “what about the reflections” but I accepted it anyway. Funny how sometimes technology goes back and forth.
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If you drag your hand on the glass and have ever had a problem with your skin sticking/skipping based on whether that particular patch is oily or not, the nano texture almost completely fixes that issue.
I’m a hooking left hander, ie I drag my hand behind the Pencil while pushing it in the direction I write. My skin pretty much brakes to a halt on smooth glass unless there’s a uniform layer of oil, and it never stays uniform because the side of my palm wipes it around like a chamois cloth.
So, on glossy, if I’m bare-handed I can only do stuff where my hand stays stationary and my fingers do all the movement, then I have to lift my hand entirely to relocate, etc. Since I don’t really want to put on a drawing glove just to take notes or do spur of the moment hobby sketching, my Pencils didn’t get much usage.
On the nano, a) the side of my hand slides completely freely no matter whether the screen (or my hand) is dry or oily, and b) because there’s so little friction the screen pulls a lot less oil off my hand. I still get finger/hand prints on the glass but they build up much more slowly.
So for me it’s transformative. No nano means I can’t effectively use the Pencil, at least without an drawing glove, nano means I can.
If you always use your Pencil with your hand off the screen or if you always use an drawing glove, this may not matter for you. In that case what I’ll say is there’s not *any* more drag, the other comment aside. There’s actually less, if anything. But the screen somehow feels “softer” to the pencil tip even though it’s not, and you don’t feel nearly as much difference when you draw through a fingerprint.
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My techs use iPads outside daily and it’s amazing. Definitely worth it for that type of situation.
This may be true for you, but I spend most my time on my iPad Pro & it’s worth every penny for me. At most I use my MBP for one hour each month… 😉 I find the laptop to be gimped as it doesn’t travel with me to the recliner or in bed, where the iPad Pro is perfect!
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Usually that happens as tech gets better.
People don’t dislike matte because glossy is perfect, they dislike matte because matte sucks. If you pitched them a glossy display with such good antiglare that it had no reflections whatsoever, while having all the same clarity and depth for the outbound image, they’d prefer that—even though that would be matte.
The nano texture is much closer to that ideal than old school matte.
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I love it and I hope to see it come to MacBooks as an option. I have an antiglare protector on my iPhone, but screen protectors are not recommended for MacBooks due to the likelihood of damage. BTW, my matte screen on my 2012 MacBook Pro is really nice, but it’s not glass; the nano texture glass is markedly better than any plastic matte screen.
Different type of nano - one is a physical etching and the iPad version is a chemical treatment