Ten Years of ThinkPadding

Re:Ten Years of ThinkPadding by bityard on Monday February 07, 2022 @12:37PM (#30248157)

There never was a technical limitation, matte coatings were a deliberate design choice and continue to be. Maybe some people like the "pop" of a glossy display but the rest of us don't like to suffer from glare and reflections while we work.

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Re:Ten Years of ThinkPadding by chrisseaton on Monday February 07, 2022 @07:28PM (#30253495)

I don't understand why you'd want to deliberately diffuse the output of your screen? Like if you wanted it blurry you could have done that in software.

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Re:Ten Years of ThinkPadding by bityard on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:04PM (#30275017)

> I don't understand why you'd want to deliberately diffuse the output of your screen?

I already said why: reflections and glare make for a terrible work experience. That's why matte is the default preference for most people.

> Like if you wanted it blurry you could have done that in software.

The "grains" (for lack of a better word) in a matte coating are truly microscopic. They don't make anything blurry. I get the impression that either you're just trolling or you've never actually seen a matte display.

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Re:Ten Years of ThinkPadding by l8rlump on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:16AM (#30256739)

I guess the diffusion is a bit like a sub-pixel sized blur, but you can’t reduce reflections in software though.

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