Re:We Need a Better PC
by radicalbyte on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @03:21AM
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I use a screen protector on my MBP: it removes the glare and covers up the horrible ugly streak marks (production fault which Apple only admitted after being sued).
Still, I've just bought an XPS15; it has a better screen than the MBP and incredible specs. The only real downsides are 16:9 and not using the new Samsung 950 Pro PCIE-SSD (which is 25% faster). Upgradability, a massive amount of RAM, fantastic screen and a tiny shell more than make up for that :)
Re:We Need a Better PC
by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @02:33AM
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Have you tried using an anti-glare (matte) screen protector? I haven't, but they're reasonably priced and it seems like an easy product to get right.
From my experience the matte films are pretty poor, they really do reduce the visual quality of the display to far worse than the actual Matte displays
Re:We Need a Better PC
by stock_toaster on Friday February 19, 2016 @05:16PM
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Agreed. Most of them I have seen range from really terrible to only just crappy.
I am still using a seemingly ancient macbook pro 15" 2009 model, simply because it has a matte screen, yet still runs the latest OSX. The super glossy screens make my eyes hurt after a while. I have been hoping that some day the glossiness gets down to a level that I can tolerate enough to get a newer macbook. However, if my laptop ends up giving up the ghost along the way though... I may look at using something like the matte screen zenbook discussed by the parent, and running FreeBSD or OpenBSD on it.