New MBP offers top display quality, but some beg to differ

The latter complaint is totally moronic. ALL SHIPPING NOTEBOOKS FROM ALL MANUFACTURERS HAVE 6-BIT DISPLAYS.

The ONLY possible exception is the new HP DreamColor laptop ($4000), which may have native 8-bit color. They won't disclose the panel details though, so that is impossible to verify at the moment.

As I've pointed out before, no graphic designer or photographer worthy of the name is going to rely on any laptop screen for critical color work for the very simple reason that you cannot set the screen angle to exactly the same position every time you raise the screen and color/contrast will vary (unavoidably) if the screen angle changes even slightly. So there!

I hate glossy screen.

I've always wanted that surfer pic as a wallpaper, anyone know where to find it?

anyone else remember just a few years ago when apple ONLY offered matte screens on their laptops?

i remember ordering my mbp the week it was released, and opting for the new oh so pretty gloss finish they offered.


apparently apple pulled a 180 and i didnt even notice..

http://www.colorwarepc.com/c-52-macbook-pros.aspx

They offer matte screens in 13, 15 and 17" MacBook Pro, as well as custom painted colors for the unibody. It's expensive options.

My problem with Louie's complaint is that he's only concerned with the specification of the hardware and not any real-world shortcoming of his display. Nowhere in his blog post does he claim (let alone demonstrate) that the 6 bit panel's dithering causes _visible_ flaws in color rendering.

Keep in mind that even 8-bit displays build their millions of colors from just three primaries. Your eyes almost never see the red, green, and blue building blocks in normal use - and I suspect that the very subtle dither of a 6-bit panel is similarly imperceptible.

I don't know, but the screen quality on my new 13" MBP is the best I've ever seen by a long shot. A very long shot

It really is a bit disturbing, what Apple has done to their "pro" line. Their "pro" designation used to actually mean something, but it's all but worthless now. For one, a 13" screen is never anything that a pro should be using. I don't do any video, but even just with photos, my 15" is barely useable. Getting rid of the express card slot for an SD card slot and calling that pro? Seriously? Almost every pro camera uses CF, not SD. A "pro" model without dedicated graphics?

I'm one of the biggest Apple fanboys there is, but this move to make the entire line pro was just asinine. There is supposed to be a difference between a pro line and a consumer line. Now, there really is not. And, to make things worse, they DOWNGRADED the pro line almost as much as they upgraded the consumer line (or maybe more) to blur the lines. Disgusting, Apple.

I just want a Matte screen for the 15 inch MBPs.