{"id":392,"date":"2010-10-30T13:24:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2010-10-30T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T21:54:08","slug":"matte-vs-glossy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/matte-vs-glossy\/","title":{"rendered":"Matte vs. Glossy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I hate glossy displays.<\/p>\n

I really do. Life has gotten a little harder ever since Apple’s attack on matte displays.<\/p>\n

I have been using both the glossy and non-glossy displays for quite some time (over two years). At home, I choose to use older Cinema Displays (30″ and 23″) that are matte-coated, however, at work I am forced to use newer iMacs with glossy displays. I find that with the glossy display, I tend to have more eye-strain and difficulty matching colors. While it is true that I can \u201ctune-out\u201d some of the reflection and glare, it is still a nuisance, and I find much more comfort and joy using my matte displays at home.<\/p>\n

I also own a black MacBook with the glossy display (albeit not glass like the new ones) and I can feel a difference when I use it versus a traditional matte display. Just recently, I was using a MacBook Pro with the matte display BTO option, and it was much easier for me to focus and read text on it, as well as match colors for a project.<\/p>\n

Glossy is certainly great in certain circumstances, such as working outside in the sunlight, watching videos as a consumer, cleaning the screen after kids with dirty hands have touched it, etc., but the overly saturated colors, reflections, and eye-straining contrast are going to prevent me from buying an iMac or new Cinema Displays for doing any “pro” work. I do believe the iMac with the glass-fronted screen would be very convenient in a family oriented or “consumer” setting. It is certainly something I would buy for my family to use.<\/p>\n

Part of me feels that with Apple’s new-found popularity amongst the young and trendy population, they have begun to ignore their “pro-users” who use these machines for design, video editing, photography, and the like. Lets just hope that someday Apple will make more displays for pro-users\u00a0to use to prevent us from having to turn to a 3rd party manufacturer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hate glossy displays. I really do. Life has gotten a little harder ever since Apple’s attack on matte displays. I have been using both the glossy and non-glossy displays for quite some time (over two years). At home, I choose to use older Cinema Displays (30″ and 23″) that are matte-coated, however, at work … Continue reading Matte vs. Glossy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}