MBP purchase

[Patrick Coskren]

On Feb 27, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Paul Sargent wrote:
>
> a) Deeper blacks, and hence better contrast ratio, and wider gamut.
> b) Rather surprisingly (to myself) I'm viewing the low viewing angle
> as a feature, as I see it being good for privacy with people at the
> next desk / wandering by not being able to see the screen as clearly.
> (less "ooh, what are you doing?")
> c) With less light being wasted by the matte coating I expect to be
> able to run the display at a lower brightness, and therefore save my
> battery a little.
> d) I have a (matte) iMac as well. So if I need a matte display to
> compare against, I have one.

I've never seen an issue with viewing angle on my glossy screen.  It  
may or may not be lower than matte (I wouldn't know), but the viewing  
angle is definitely not "low".  If you want privacy, you'll want to  
buy one of those polarizing screen covers.  :-)  I code daily on a  
glossy screen, and it's great.  I much prefer it to my old matte ones.

> I'm not interested in knee-jerk "glossy is the devil's work" replies,
> that seem to be everywhere when you Google the subject. I'm hoping
> this list is above that, and I can get some real info based on
> experiences.

I'm surprised by that.  The consensus among all the Mac users I talk  
to leans very heavily pro-glossy.

HTH,
Patrick
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