The results are going to be skewed because people like to tell people they have the high res screen!
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How many actually have the hi res screen?
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love my HR-AG. Great in university lecture halls with awful fluorescent lights overhead that give my friends with their glossy displays tons of glare and force them to turn up their brightness (and lose their battery life)
Your best bet would be to go to an Apple Store and play with the regular and hi-res versions for a little while. Some people have said that the hi-res bothers their eyes. But no one can really tell you what will be best for you. Best to try them out for yourself and see what works best. And if you buy one and it ends up not working out for you, Apple has a 14-day return policy.
High-Res Matte, No Regrets
I got Hi-Res Matte for my new 15" MBP. So happy I did, no regrets. I went from a glossy screen to a matte oneI can't tell a difference between color vibrancy unless they are side-by-side, it's not that noticeable. What is noticeable is the difference in glare. There is a huge difference between the amount of glare/reflections present. The High-Res is an added bonus, I don't find the text too small. Everything looks nice and crisp. The silver bezel looks quite nice once you get used to it. The screen does't get as dirty as the glossy ones do either and the lack of a glass panel reduces the laptop's weight by a noticeable amount.
I got Hi-Res Matte for my new 15" MBP. So happy I did, no regrets. I went from a glossy screen to a matte oneI can't tell a difference between color vibrancy unless they are side-by-side, it's not that noticeable. What is noticeable is the difference in glare. There is a huge difference between the amount of glare/reflections present. The High-Res is an added bonus, I don't find the text too small. Everything looks nice and crisp. The silver bezel looks quite nice once you get used to it. The screen does't get as dirty as the glossy ones do either and the lack of a glass panel reduces the laptop's weight by a noticeable amount.
I wear glasses (short sighted) and tried the hi-res glossy for a few days but it gave me eyestrain/headaches. Every time I visit the apple store though that hi-res anti-glare looks more and more appealing; very tempted to use the 14-day return policy to give it a go. Perhaps it was the glare combined with the hi-res that gave me eyestrain? Could be my prescription also, not had my eyes tested for two or three years...
For much of the work I do I could not trust the HR Matte display. The colors are always slightly off, like you are wearing sunglasses at the world all the time...
There isn't a lot of difference in accuracy either way. Doing color grading/correction from a macbook pro display is not a good idea. Just the use of LED backlighting makes them virtually impossible to profile well. so you're stuck with the factory profile, and no means of lut based calibration. All displays shift and lose luminance over time, so whichever you choose, it's a moving target over the life of the display. The difference between glossy/matte is nothing compared to other factors. Also if that display looks like you're wearing sunglasses, your work area must be quite bright, in which case you'd be trading a dark display for massive shiny reflections.I wear glasses (short sighted) and tried the hi-res glossy for a few days but it gave me eyestrain/headaches. Every time I visit the apple store though that hi-res anti-glare looks more and more appealing; very tempted to use the 14-day return policy to give it a go. Perhaps it was the glare combined with the hi-res that gave me eyestrain? Could be my prescription also, not had my eyes tested for two or three years...
I have the same problem as you. I'm near sighted as well. I got a second pair with a weaker correction factor for time spent in front of the computer, and the eye strain continued. The glare could be a factor, but what I have found is that displays that are too bright tend to cause a lot of eye strain. The problem you can run into is that many lcd displays look absolutely terrible when turned down in brightness, due to lack of contrast stability. Eye strain has always been a common complaint with these things. With CRTs the issue was stability/refresh rates, where the flicker could cause eye strain below a certain refresh rate. With LCD displays, the issue overall has been that they are often several times brighter, and many of them lose too much contrast if the backlight is dimmed. I'd suggest setting it to the lowest brightness possible without running into contrast issues. That glossy display would drive me mad.
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Same. I'm in lecture halls all day with my MBP, as well as lab rooms and other brightly lit areas, and I've never had a problem.
All in all Ive decided to go with just the standard display. The $100 is not that big of a deal, but seeing as Ill be hooked up to an external 65% of the time I don't think it is necessary. Im going to take that 115 or so(after tax) and put it towards an SSD.
I would say the anti-glare option is very prevalent on these forums and other technical forums.
For the average user that doesn't spend their time on computer forums and isn't a technically-inclined person, the amount of anti-glare options and hi-res options is a lot lower. For example, I go to a school of about 35,000 and I haven't seen an anti-glare macbook pro.
For the average user that doesn't spend their time on computer forums and isn't a technically-inclined person, the amount of anti-glare options and hi-res options is a lot lower. For example, I go to a school of about 35,000 and I haven't seen an anti-glare macbook pro.
That's odd. In my school of 10,000ish I have seen at least 10... but then again, that's only 10... and 3 of them were used by techs at the UNIX help desk.
I'm assuming you mean 15", and then you're talking about not MBP's because that resolution isn't offered for them...
I too use the an external monitor most of the time, but the low res screen just looked, well, low res to me. Also, I use it for photo shoots - tethered capture - so I've got art directors and such looking over my shoulder and the better it looks on the laptops lcd, the better I look.
My MacBook Pro has the standard display, although when I upgrade a few years from now I may give the high resolution display a shot if it's an option at that time.
Maybe because students don't have enough disposable income to waste the extra on the high-res option? How many actual 15" MBPs do you see compared to the 13" models that I've seen people using on the few occasions I'm anywhere near a university now?
i see a ton of them... then again, I am at a private university...and the occasional 17" too, but that's usually just because the person with that has money, not because they use the real estate like i do...
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The reason I asked is that the 13" seems more prevalent in the UK generally. Even the celebs on TV who have MBPs generally have the 13" model. I don't know if it's because they see it as more portable or what, hence my question.
True enough, I see a ton of 13" the odd 15", and I've seen one or two 17". One of which was a faculty members.
Soooo true. All I see is 13" MBPs and MBs at my college. I see a lot of tablets too, but I guess that's besides the point.
Using the hires mat. I upgraded from my 2006 that had hires but glossy and I am loving the mat screen.
umm i do. i prefer that, because then i can look out the window. and i prefer to do my homework outside. i think it all depends on how you tilt the screen, really. although if i had the option to do anti-glare now i would probably take it, i love the vibrant colors of my screen.