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My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
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rottencupcakes ◴[] No.45775475[source]
It's classic Apple to spend over a decade insisting that that glossy screens were the best option, and then to eventually roll out a matte screen as a "premium" feature with a bunch of marketing around it.
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LeoPanthera ◴[] No.45775641[source]
Historically, traditional matte screen finishes exhibited poor optical qualities by scattering ambient light, which tended to wash out colors. This scattering process also affected the light from individual pixels, causing it to refract into neighboring pixels.

This reduced overall image quality and caused pixel-fine details, such as small text, to appear smeary on high-density LCDs. In contrast, well-designed glossy displays provide a superior visual experience by minimizing internal refraction and reflecting ambient light at high angles, which reduces display pollution. Consequently, glossy screens often appear much brighter, blacks appear blacker without being washed out, colors show a higher dynamic range, and small details remain crisper. High-quality glass glossy displays are often easy to use even in full daylight, and reflections are manageable because they are full optical reflections with correct depth, allowing the user to focus on the screen content.

Apple's "nano texture" matte screens were engineered to solve the specific optical problems of traditional matte finishes, the washed-out colors and smeary details. But they cost more to make. The glossy option is still available, and still good.

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lobochrome ◴[] No.45778296[source]
These AI comments suck. I mean sure. It’s probably true. But the pollution of our social interactions with slop is so icky.

I receive these highly polished emails from people and am just annoyed. Do you expect me to answer your robot?!

Maybe there needs to be a bad style minimum for a forum in the future. Only human imperfections allowed.

Ok. Of topic maybe.

I love the Nano texture displays. And the glossy glass ones were also great and the best ones out there.

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1. galagawinkle489 ◴[] No.45778963{3}[source]
It is well written and that makes you think it was written by AI? AI doesn't write as well as that anyway.