OMG, Apple. Glossy screens? What were you thinking???

[timelessbeing]

If you're placing the iMac in a brightly lit location in the home where there are lights or windows directly behind you to reflect off of the screen then obviously you need to find a better location to put the computer if you want a 27" iMac.

Perhaps I should move into perfectly black basement? Even then I will still see my glowing face in it.

In my opinion, it's a no brainer and I think Apple should give people the option (I would gladly pay more), rather than making them remodel their house around a computer.

 

[timelessbeing]

Here is the funny thing. I look now at matte screens and after working with gloss I cant stand them. The color reproduction just aint this same.

Even if that were true, I would happily sacrifice 0.02 nanodoodles of colour to not be irritated by glare and reflections.

 

[timelessbeing]

go get two 2" suction cups from home depot, pull the glass off (it's held on with magnets) enjoy your 27" matte imac

You mean just use it without the glass, or replace it with matte glass? Does this seriously work? What about cinema displays?

 

[JoeG4]

The 27" pics on ifixit make it look like the screen is matte, but I have my doubts since many Apple screens are glossy under the glass lol.

If that was the case, it'd be nice if someone sold a metal or plastic insert to act as a bezel instead of the glass.

 

[The General]

Yeah, I realize that monitor is 3" bigger and 160 rows of pixels shorter, but it's the closest thing to the 27" 2560x1440 display I could find.

You mean just use it without the glass, or replace it with matte glass? Does this seriously work? What about cinema displays?

Without the glass. Yes, it works. Companies should make replacement bezels that cover up the outside, it'd be the easiest glossy->matte mod ever.

 

[iBookG4user]

Don't like glossy?
Go PC.
Enjoy.

There's a lot of irony in this post. Before the intel transition, it was almost the exact opposite. Macs had only matte displays and a large quantity of PCs were going to glossy displays.

 

[lilo777]

Macs are cheaper than PCs. Fact.

Apparently you have your own way with the facts.

I'm not seeing (literally) any problems with glossy displays. In the car, at home, at school, etc. Matte displays are a problem, it distorts light so color gamut is affected. Apple's "glassy" displays is just glass, which doesn't hinder light passing through it as much as the matte finish.

And that is why all professional video/image editing displays (i.e. NEC, EIZO) are matte? You should go ahead and teach them a little.

 

[tanveer]

imac

you get used to the glossy screen and lern to see past your face in the screen trust me give it two weeks lol

 

[timelessbeing]

it'd be the easiest glossy->matte mod ever.

Is the Cinema display glass held on by magnets too?

 

[Kebabselector]

you get used to the glossy screen and lern to see past your face in the screen trust me give it two weeks lol

No you don't. My Macbook is glossy (plastic glossy, not the new glass ones) and in 3 years I've not got used to it yet.

 

[The General]

Is the Cinema display glass held on by magnets too?

Yes.