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It seems to me that the reason for this shift is the same reason manufacturers ship their TVs set to overblown saturation and brightness: it looks good in the showroom.

As someone who has no office and works every day either from home or from a coffee shop on a laptop, the glossy screen is pretty annoying. It's not impossible to work on it and you do get used to it, but my next MacBook Pro will be the matte finish. It's more annoying that a matte finish costs $50 more.

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Isn't it brilliant how the process of selling a product has such negative impacts on the product itself.

Reminds me of the loudness wars...and then I become sad.

The matte screen also comes with a grey bezel and not the sweet looking black one, FYI. Not a huge deal but it was a shock when I pulled it out of the box.

edit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inju/3184631310/

I love it, the black/glass shows fingerprints like the devil. And it seems like it's of an impossibly small relevancy. I bought my MBP for the power, matte high-res screen and durability. The appearance of the bezel is probably the least important thing on the device.

What year/model MacBook Pro is that?

Mine is second to newest, officially the MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4132

At least in the TV market, less glare is considered a feature. Modern plasmas are vastly better at toning down reflections that the old ones.

i think technically it is $150 more, since the only way to get the antiglare is with the hi-res option. definitely annoying.

Annoying? Unsurprising is appropriate too. Remember the $100 'black' tax? "Same model, specs, just in black, for only $100 more!" Apple knows that their fans might moan a little, but in the end will hand over their credit card regardless.

I don't remember that, and I owned a black MacBook.

hi-res version is TOTALLY worth it, however. Best $150 I spent, seriously, was the matte+hires screen

I don't really care about the price, but the fact that you can't get the 13" version with the antiglare option. I have my laptop in the backback all the time and the 15" and 17" versions are just too large and too heavy.

Indeed. Even more annoying is that adding high-res, anti-glare makes it a custom order for the 15". Apple Stores only stock the overkill $2599 15" version with the high-res matte screen.

> Indeed. Even more annoying is that adding high-res, anti-glare makes it a custom order for the 15". Apple Stores only stock the overkill $2599 15" version with the high-res matte screen.

Not true. Apple's retail stores often stock the high-end (high-res matte with the top-end i7) 15" model, so they can upsell. Not all stores will have it, and there's no guarantee (they typically only stock just a few at a time), but it's not online BTO only.

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