17" MacBook Pro Anti Glare Thread

[DMC-12]

Just got home to my new 17" MacBook Pro with the optional anti glare display. I'll take more pictures in a few, but it's incredible!

I cannot believe how much sense it makes for that kind of anti-glare option to be made available if not standard on all MacBook Pros. It looks amazing, so much better than the two-tone silver and black.

WHOSE IDEA WAS IT AT APPLE TO INTRODUCE THE BLACK-BORDERED GLASS SCREENS? WTF???

 

[Repo]

I don't know. But it did.

Sorry to tell you this but most batteries monitor themselves. Even Apples older batteries did this. What apple has really done is moved the circuits out of the battery and in to the notebook, doing so increasing the size. Basically its just a big battery. Apple want to make it sound like they reinvented the battery but that's just not true.

Yea. The fact that this battery has 1000 recharge cycles definitely proves there's no new technology going on under the hood.

 

[Quu]

Yea. The fact that this battery has 1000 recharge cycles definitely proves there's no new technology going on under the hood.

If the old battery could do 500 and they just increased the capacity x2 and are using 8 individual cells vs 4 then what does this tell you

 

[duffyanneal]

If the old battery could do 500 and they just increased the capacity x2 and are using 8 individual cells vs 4 then what does this tell you

Your theory would be sound if the machine alternated between two sets of four cells, but unfortunately for you that is not the case.

 

[Quu]

Your theory would be sound if the machine alternated between two sets of four cells, but unfortunately for you that is not the case.

With more Cells they can better load balance the stress on the batteries, the stress which causes cells to deplete faster over time. It is the same practice used in prolonging SSD life by alternating between memory chips.

For example if Cell 1 has a lower estimated life then Cell 2, then Cell 2 will be used by the Notebook for power over Cell 1, bringing its life down to that of Cell 1's and making Cell 1 last longer by not using it as much as other cells that can withstand more cycles. 1 Cycle is when the battery has completed an entire depletion but that does not mean you cannot deplete just 1 cell, charge it up again and then deplete another cell instead of that first cell again. Evenly loading the battery prolongs its maximum capacity over the batteries lifetime.

It uses the same technology as the last battery except its twice as big.

If you want to refute me then show me what technology differs from the last battery.

 

[sparkie7]

The bad:
— There does appear to be some slight light leakage on the lower half of the display along the left and right sides; it's not noticeable except in those certain conditions

can u post pics of this light bleeding? at what level brightness does this happen

 

[The Hammer]

Of course, one would want turn off the "Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes" feature.

Why would one want to do this?

 

[lordthistle]

Many people say the glass panel in front of the glossy screens is needed for reducing the flexibility of the screen.

What about the screen flexibility in the Antiglare model? Can you comment on this?

thistle

 

[guest8t88]

Geez, I haven't found it dim. Of course, one would want turn off the "Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes" feature.

How do you turn that off (new macuser).
And love the picture, the silver border does not look so bad.

 

[DHagan4755]

Many people say the glass panel in front of the glossy screens is needed for reducing the flexibility of the screen.

What about the screen flexibility in the Antiglare model? Can you comment on this?

thistle

Yeah, that's what Apple said in October during the initial unibody MacBook Pro release...let me tell you this...the screen on the anti glare sure doesn't feel flimsy. I don't have any experience with the glossy glass notebooks to tell how you much more torsionally resistant they are.

 

[DHagan4755]

can u post pics of this light bleeding? at what level brightness does this happen

I could not photograph the brighter sides... it's really only noticeable in certain environmental lighting conditions where the imagery on the LCD is black...like the earth desktop picture in System Preferences (which is where I noticed it).

I would like Rob Galbraith to do a review of the 17" anti glare display vs. the 17" glass.

 

[DHagan4755]

And now for some more pics. I took these last night. Enjoy!

 

[DHagan4755]

Two more

Two more...

 

[guest8t88]

Lovely, cannot wait to have mine in hands.
Torture.

 

[sparkie7]

And now for some more pics. I took these last night. Enjoy!

awesome. except for the black keyboards. they just look wrong

 

[DHagan4755]

awesome. except for the black keyboards. they just look wrong

I have gotten used to it with the Air that I have.

Oh by the way, this machine does gets warm...just like the previous MacBook Pros (but not hot to the touch). I am charging the battery and installing Adobe stuff so maybe it will cool down when the installing is done.

 

[toyotaoffroadca]

Is the bezel color actually the same color as the rest of the macbook or is it darker. Some pictures the bezel looks very bright while others make it look almost black.
I am almost ready to hit the order button but I am stuck on the screen, I want the antiglare, but I also want the black bezel, but from the pics (not just yours) its hard to tell what the dominant color of the bezel is.
I've had plasmas with silver bezels and absolutely hated them, I find it can overpower what you are trying to look at on the screen.
And whats with this statement fromt the Apple Store?
"If you prefer a display with antiglare coating for a matte rather than glossy viewing experience, choose the antiglare widescreen display." They call it an "antiglare coating" as if it would normally be a high gloss screen but with an overlay.
Thanks for any input.

 

[UltraNEO*]

Oooo..WOW! I do like the matte version of the UMBP.
Looks soo damn sexy!

 

[DHagan4755]

Sorry about that. The way the lighting is over the notebook, it is hard to tell!

The bezel around the screen is slightly inset where the gasket meets the lid. The bezel is the exact same color of silver as the rest of the unibody.

As far as the bezel being black, I don't have the foggiest idea why Apple didn't make it black. All I can come up with is that Apple couldn't anodize aluminum black to their liking. There are colored anodized aluminum iPods, including black, so I know it's possible.

Personally, I had reservations. I thought of switching my order to glossy down the stretch while I waited for this to ship (I ordered the day it was announced). But that is sort of a fleeting memory at the moment.

My retrospective is whether jumping up to the 17" MBP will have been a good decision for me. I had a 17" PowerBook G4 and downsized a year and half ago to the 15" MacBook Pro. I got used to that size. So this thing is like a cafeteria tray to me! Gotta re-adjust!

I don't find the screen dim. Then again, I don't have a 15" MacBook Pro unibody to compare it to.

I think you'll be happy with whatever you decide to do. I have no dead pixels and it's plenty fine for me!

 

[jjahshik32]

Two more...

Whoa I dont know why but that macbook's screen looks freakin bright.

I played with one of my friends new unibody 13" macbook but compared to my 15" unibody mbp I remember that it was really dim. That gives me an idea of just how dim the 17" unibody must be.

 

[Adokimus]

Whoa I dont know why but that macbook's screen looks freakin bright.

I played with one of my friends new unibody 13" macbook but compared to my 15" unibody mbp I remember that it was really dim. That gives me an idea of just how dim the 17" unibody must be.

...maybe because it's NOT a macbook?


(hint: look at the bezel and the laptop's thinness)

 

[PkennethV]

...maybe because it's NOT a macbook?


(hint: look at the bezel and the laptop's thinness)

or perhaps even more obvious, the fact that there's still a physical mouse button.

 

[lscangus]

anyone got a calibrated ICC profile for the anti-glare?

Angus

 

[DHagan4755]

anyone got a calibrated ICC profile for the anti-glare?

Angus

Hmmm... mine looked fabulous out of the box with the default ICC Profile. My whites are really white... other LCD panels that I thought looked the whitest now have a slight cast/bias to me.

 

[DHagan4755]

I thought I'd share some more pictures! In the brightest lighting conditions, as you can see, there can be some glare on the anti glare display. It makes me wonder if the anti glare models should come dressed completely in black because the light does reflect off the silver unibody onto the display in certain conditions.

I wonder how much glare there would be in this scene with the glossy glass? Hmmmmm