Why apple only has glossy displays
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- ********
yes, they took inspiration from it! for sure!
- Dancer0
is he about to sneeze
- ********0
no, he is constantly looking down
- Atkinson0
he's holding the prototype of the next MBP iInvisible
- ********0
hahaha
- Karpa0
GLOSSY ROCKS!
- kingsteven0
yeh, I like the glossy screens.
- Jaline0
"Jonathan (Jony) Paul Ive CBE...is a British designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, aluminum PowerBook G4 (and MacBook Pro), iPod and iPhone."
He's cute.
- ********0
Lets face it, he fucked up when he produced this thing.
- word.section_014
- wall-e?Greedo
- Perhaps, but it will never outweigh the successful designs he has made for Apple.Jaline
- maybe... it's still less attractive than my butt-crack tho'....BuddhaHat
- This was amazing for point of sale people...Seanbot
- Yup designbot and also back then that was actually kinda cool.********
- Or for the love of... Seanbot I meant... I'm very sorry about that.********
- I thought that model was cool. Especially the one with the wide screen.boobs
- lol, true!, that shit is ugly********
- MSTRPLN0
He must use this stuff
- Dancer0
original imacs were good
- 23kon0
wow! he's got a f*cking invisible iphone in his hand
did you guys not even notice?!- see above, it's not an iphoneAtkinson
- he's doing an Andy Murry asking for his towel.Jnr_Madison
- Jnr_Madison0
he's doing an Andy Murry asking for his towel.
- Murraykelpie
- (you cunt)kelpie
- so good they posted it twiceAtkinson
- your angry at my cumshot post, aren't you.Jnr_Madison
- *you'reJnr_Madison
- where is that? I may be, but haven't seen it yetkelpie
- that was to Atkinson but I'll make one about you later.Jnr_Madison
- Atkinson0
in his right hand he's rocking a samsung flip-phone, my wife had one a few years back
- manshed0
they only have glossy screens cause there using LEDs backlighting and the glass display shows better than previous screen materials.
that and to probably jack up the cost.
- Karpa0
Quoting user Version >
i have never understood the statement that the glossy screens can't produce true colour. coming from an artistic background i know that all painters refused to use matted glass in front of their works simply because it reduces the contrast and colour of their works.
having recently gotten a glossy MBP i am never going back to matte. the contrast is amazing, the blacks are blacker and the reflection never gets in the way when the screen is at full brightness.
however since people keep making an issue of this i chose to see what professionals are saying & it seems that i'm right:
"Matte screens diffuse the lights going into AND out of the monitor. You will see this when you point a bright flourescent light at your matte screen and you can see not glare but a sort of blurred ‘smudge’ of light on the monitor. This is good for the majority of situations (such as outside and under bright direct lights). But it is also bad in the sense that the lights and colors coming from behind the matte coating are being diffused the same way.
The way the glossy screen makes things better is that instead of ‘anti-glare’ it is using ‘anti-reflective’ principals. This is meaning that instead of light being diffused into the coating it mostly just bounces off. This gives you the glare you see on the glossy screens, some worse than others. The upside to this is that the light from inside the lcd are not being affected AT ALL, so you’re contrast ratio is up and your colors look more vibrant.
Contrary to what someone else said above this type of lcd screen IS recommended for design work since typically a person doing design will being in a less brightly lit setting and so will recieve a much nicer contrast ratio and much more vibrant colors (infact MORE true to the apple colors, since the colors aren’t being ‘mangled’ by the diffusion on the way past the coating)."
more in depth information can be found here:
http://www.screentekinc.com/pixe…
i hope this somewhat settles this argument. i'm not sure that most of the people complaining about glossy screens have ever actually used them. it struck me immediately as to the benefit the moment i owned one & spent some time with it.
also please note that the default colour settings on a glossy mac are very different from the defaults on a matte mac. just set your colour profile as you need it & you'll find the glossy's added contrast, richness of colour and depth win over in the end.
- He could just said, we looked at the Sony laptops and like the glossy screen, so use that idea.********
- "however since people keep making an issue of this i chose to see what professionals are saying & it seems that i'm right:" HAHAHAHAMeeklo
- that statement sounds like something Bill O'Reilly would say.Meeklo
- so your colors look vibrant, but no one esles does!studderine
- He could just said, we looked at the Sony laptops and like the glossy screen, so use that idea.
- megE0
i dont like the glossy displays - gives false color readings and then the printer looks completely different
doesn't matter if you calibrate or not :\
- I concur.doctor
- and every print you do now is somehow exact to what it looked like on screen? Hardly I would imagine.********
- just saying... don't like them - much prefer the matte finish screenmegE
- Right on, but I just think the whole color argument is moot. Even on two of the same computers it could look different.********
- different.********
- good point.********
- ********0
How long before Dell and half the other PC makers follow suit with glossy screens? 3 months maybe?
- Llyod0
apple does the glossy because they're betting on people watching movies and looking at photos on their machines.
- killthefish0
ih?
"Glossy Vs. Matte
There are basically two flavors of screen available on notebooks (and flat panel monitors in general) right now: glossy and matte.
Because glossy screens are more common these days, I'll go over those first. "
That was published in 2005. Showing examples of Fujitsu's glossy screen laptop.
Yes, the PC makers will "follow suit" ASAP.