This is the latter I just sent to Apple's MacBook Pro feedback:
"I am an architect who has logged thousands and thousands of hours on design work, 3D modeling, rendering, graphics and presentations on two generations of Powerbooks for the past 7 years, and have been anxiously waiting for the new 'brick' MacBook Pros to come out. I'm also a professor of architectural design at a large college of art and design that has many Mac Pros running Cinema Displays in their computer labs, and that sells hundreds of MacBook Pros to the students. Additionally, I constantly use my Apple laptop to give weekly lectures at my college and presentations of my design work at venues around the globe (with the glowing Apple logo proudly displayed to the audience from the lectern).
But I can tell you first hand that I and almost anyone I know among my many colleagues, and most of the hundreds of students I teach PREFER MATTE screens for design/graphics work. By abandoning matte screens in your pro laptops and displays, you are making a potentially grave error, shutting out a huge element of Apple users. It was extremely disheartening to have heard from Jobs and Ives that "a vast majority prefer glossy" and that 'you can just change positions to compensate for glare', as responses to this issue. Just because glossy screens became a fad among PC (consumer) laptops and are popular with SOME consumers including iMac users in no way makes a convincing argument for the elimination of a matte option for all the existing and future pro Apple users -- on the contrary it seems downright disrespectful of the very user base (in both professional and academic design disciplines) that stuck with and strengthened Apple all these years. Please reconsider the elimination of matte screens, or it seems plainly clear Apple will lose many customers in these arenas, and lose respect as makers of true professional computer hardware!"
- probably will fall on deaf ears (if not blind eyes)...
I would expect that you are right with that last line.
But I ask you, no one else is releasing new laptops with matte displays either. So where are all these "Apple Pros" going to turn once they drop Apple.
My suggestion to you is to buy a new MBP and use it for awhile. It is heads and shoulders above your PB in almost every respect. Not only is performance, build, fit, and finish much better but the display is much better as well.
The new MBP displays are LED backlit and much brighter, clearer, have more contrast, and better black levels. After using the new MBP for awhile you will completely over look and not even notice any undo problem with the glare.
It's like putting on a new pair of shoes. Initially they takes getting used to but eventually they will feel just right.
Of Note: Even though the MB & the MBP look similar. Gizmodo did a review of the new screens and the MBP is much better than the MB. The black levels were tremendously different and wide angle viewing was like night and day. So if you are going to use a display in the classroom, the MBP will be much better.