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Modding your MBP (late 2008)

coledog said:
The entire warranty will be voided, not just little parts of it. Technically if you remove one screw from the side, your warranty is void unless you take it to a Apple store or Apple Authorized Service Center.
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Thanks, good to know.
 
The OP may not be the most evolved human in existance but he put a question to his peers and most answers have been irrelevant other than the screen cover. Leave him alone to get his answers please.
 
PowersupportUSA is making a film for the macbook pro. If you have an iphone and tried their anti-glare film, you'll find that their film is actually quite good.
 
bitesize said:
PowersupportUSA is making a film for the macbook pro. If you have an iphone and tried their anti-glare film, you'll find that their film is actually quite good.
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Er... there's a slight error there. PowersupportUSA doesn't make anything, they're just the US reseller for the Japan manufactured products. Their films are designed to be fitted to the TFT itself not the glass, as you suggested...

Even when you do fit them to the glass, you still have a tiny problem with the display, as there's a little reflection between the TFT and back of the glass. How you resolve that one?

Parent site: http://www.pawasapo.co.jp
 
You're right about them reselling for the japanese company.

But sorry to disappoint you, you obviously don't have an iphone or haven't tried the iphone antiglare film. The screen on the iphone is almost just like the macbook pro ones, glass over TFT. Therefore the screen film will attach to the glass just fine, assuming they use the same methods they used for the iphone, where the film just stick to the glass by static.

UltraNEO* said:
Er... there's a slight error there. PowersupportUSA doesn't make anything, they're just the US reseller for the Japan manufactured products. Their films are designed to be fitted to the TFT itself not the glass, as you suggested...

Even when you do fit them to the glass, you still have a tiny problem with the display, as there's a little reflection between the TFT and back of the glass. How you resolve that one?

Parent site: http://www.pawasapo.co.jp
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I'm not really a fan of the glossy screens Apple has been putting in their products, and have thought of possibilities of how to solve this (personal preference) issue for some time already.
Now I can't really tell from experience, but I thought, that protective screens, on top of glass would compromise the picture quality. Exaggerating (to illustrate my point), I had the impression it would seem like looking through satin glass. Judging by the posts referring to the iPhone anti-glare film this doesn't seem to be the case though?!
 
AndiG said:
I just can't believe that all professional users suddenly start to like glossy displays because his Steveness decided that.
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Wow... condescend much?

I like the glossy display because everything pops more which is fantastic for client presentations. Color accuracy on a laptop screen is irrelevant because that's what Pantone books and external displays are for.

I have zero issues with glare in my work environment.
 
AndiG said:
...I still like the idea of modding this thing best, cause as far as I know the display is matte and superb (behind the glass). ...
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I hate to burst your bubble here, but as far as I'm aware, the reason Professionals HATE glossy displays has absolutely nothing to do with it being reflective. The real issue they have is related to the colors, and them not being "true." So with your thinking, if there is a matte display, but just behind a piece of glass, then there is no issue at all with color. The glass shouldn't distort the colors. Period. As a self-proclaimed "professional," you should know that. If your gripe is with the glare alone, that's not the same argument of matte vs. glossy at all, that argument comes down to colors. I suggest you just get an anti-glare film that won't cause any other issues. Problem solved.
 
The hinge isn't loose because the display weighs less. That makes no sense at all... Adding weight to the display will only make the effects of the looser hinge more apparent.

I don't know if glass weights more than aluminum, but neither will adjust the tightness of the hinge.
 
bitesize said:
You're right about them reselling for the japanese company.

But sorry to disappoint you, you obviously don't have an iphone or haven't tried the iphone antiglare film. The screen on the iphone is almost just like the macbook pro ones, glass over TFT. Therefore the screen film will attach to the glass just fine, assuming they use the same methods they used for the iphone, where the film just stick to the glass by static.
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ROFL. :D:D:D

Just from reading this reply, I've learnt you clearly know nothing about the product, let alone used it on your iPhone. Sorry.. but to say "where the film just stick to the glass by static" is just wrong, if you've ever used it, which I seriously doubt you have, you'll notice the sticky side is actually tacky to the touch.

And to prove the point, here are some photos I took of my iPhone with and without the film attached. What I've done is to remove the anti-glare film so it's only covering half of the display, hopefully this will show you how it looks.









Using the film on the glassy display does cause a slight deterioration to the clearness of the display. It's nothing at all like a Matte finished TFT, at all! And fitting an anti-glare fiter direct on a TFT reduced the text deterioration.

Personally, I prefer the privacy filter even though there's a 10% reduction in clarity because it keeps praying eyes off my private emails. Anything one trying to read my display 35° off centre only see's a black display. Unfortunately the PowerSupport version only offers privacy protection when the iPhone is used in the portrait.

All photos were taken with a Conon EOS 40D using the ƒ2.8 100mm Macro lens, mounted on a Gitzo tripod.
 
Sorry for the OT:
I just wanted to state that it is funny how many pro apple whiners come out if one person is critizising there holy apple company or a product of them.
For me it is clear that they already left the "Pro"market with this Macbook Pro as it is just a gaming and multimedia toy.
To be a little constructive in the end I would say lets hope they will fix some issues and give us back the matte option in the future. I would not modd the 2500$ machine with a loss of warranty. I think the next upgrade will be in spring next year, not too far away to wait for it.
 
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