I plan to buy a MacBook pro very soon as many of you may know. I have a slight dilemma and that would be whether to get a glossy or matte display. My friend jonno has a matte and it doesn’t look to bad, but I do like the look of a glossy display. Glossy’s are said to increase contrast and richness the colour but mattes are said to give better and a truer colour representation. All my previous computers have had a matte display, but I can’t help but be tempped by the glossy. The new MacBook Pros have an LED display which is really bright which is supposed to counter the glare. I thought I would do a post for you to help weigh up the pros and cons of going glossy.

Pros

• Richer colour
• Deeper backs and lighter whites
• Contrasts higher
• Slightly brighter
• Richer colour

Cons

• Not true colour
• Glare outside and in well lit rooms
• Washed out in sunlight
• Eye strain

Looking at the Pros and Cons, the Pros out weight the Cons in number but what is important for me? Well I would say accurate colour representation because I like to do photo editing. But I love the rich and deep colour the glossy gives you and the colour is not distorted that much, I have yet so see a glossy display washed out by the sun. I have seen the glossy iMac and MacBook and MacBook Pro in a well lit store and I didn’t see much glare but I would say that it can be distracting. So I still haven’t made up my mind. I have an idea lets ask some people and the poll says…

The polls says that matte is favoured over the glossy by a huge margin, but is this just because we are so use to matte displays? In these photos below we have glossy MacBook Pro’s and a matte ones.

There is also another thing to take in to account JohnLewis gives you a two year warranty on top of apples, but they only sell the basic model so no glossy, if they sold the glossy that would make my mind up. I know that people will say do you need that warranty, it will be my first Mac and I want to keep it