Comments on: New MacBook Pro 15″ Hi-Res Screen Comparison

By: CM

CM — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:50:00 +0000

Hmm.. how about increasing the font size in your code editor?

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By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:29:22 +0000

I beg to differ…
I have vision problems that are correctable via glasses or contacts and I bought a Hi-Res 15″ in spite of comments like yours. I’m glad I did! I love the Hi-Res display! Yes type is small and it requires a little more effort to see clearly, but well worth the effort to me. I am still able to sustain long hours of work with this screen. I am no stranger to eye strain, and yet I get along fine with the 1680X1050.

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By: Semaj

Semaj — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:23:32 +0000

haha james, we know there is only one tab, but tab toolbar is open that makes screen smaller than normal.

By: Philip Dahl

Philip Dahl — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:57:40 +0000

I was looking in the apple store and saw that there were high res solutions for the latest MBP 15″ glossy or antiglare. I got really excited thinking it was “retina display” but after reading this article I don’t know if it’s worth the extra 100 (150 for antiglare).

Think I’m going to wait for retina display support instead of a few more pixels at 72dpi. I always end up doing accessibility zooms or browser zoom to see most of the content out there already and I have two other monitors to support my screen real estate needs.

By: RB

RB — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:05:06 +0000

Does anyone here have some detailed tech. specs on the two screens (lo-res&hi-res)? I`m mainly interested in the power consumption of the hi-res vs the low-res one… is the higher-res one eating more power? (and if anybody know how much more…)

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Mac Setup: MacBook Pro 15″ with Apple Cinema Display — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:13:58 +0000

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By: Gman

Gman — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:29:20 +0000

by the way it is 15″

By: Gman

Gman — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:29:00 +0000

I’ve just bought a brand new MBP with regular glossy display (not hi-res)
Is my MBP lame, if you compare with Hi-res?

By: midtown292

midtown292 — Sat, 21 May 2011 07:04:33 +0000

I agree with your logic! I myself do not like matt screens in a laptop, unless its a HP (I like the brightness and contrast on their matt displays) and also hate the silver bezel. But I do need the high resolution. I do quite a bit of work in Photoshop and it would be great to have more space to see the whole of a 1440×900 picture. I also am just starting out in 3D modelling using Blender (thank goodness its availible for Mac and Windows), and would value the screen space for that too. As for text I can already read (with my glasses) very small text, smaller than most people with perfect eyesight can read (100% in Microsoft Word for Mac is about half the size as 100% in MS Word in Windows on any screen size) so I do not think that would be a problem for me. I would enjoy seeing as much of websites and documents as I can see on my 20″ HP 2010 monitor at home when I am on the road.

By: Haha

Haha — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:20:11 +0000

You probably already know all the characteristics of both the screen types and have made up your decision. Either way you are right. Relax & enjoy what you have.

i personally like the antiglare in antiglare and for this reason I have gone with the antiglare.

By: James

James — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:39:29 +0000

He actually doesn’t have another tab open, just check it. The tab bar is there, but just the one tab is present.

By: David

David — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:13:47 +0000

Running any LCD at less than its natural resolution will increase fuzziness. If you want a lower resolution screen, buy one; don’t “turn down” a higher resolution screen.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:18:29 +0000

For those willing to be converted if some one can offer up a serious professional reason why they should spend another $200 on a anti glare screen, remember that $200 is not for the antiglare alone. Antiglare is in fact only about $40, but requires a hi-res upgrade which accounts for most of that $200.

I personally think a person needs to decide whether they want a hi-res display first. As others have said, it isn’t always ideal for all situations, but on occassions where it is I agree that most (if not all) software you need to use allows you to scale anything you find uncomfortable. You just have the advantage with a hi-res display, to opt for hi-res. Whereas there is no luxury to do it otherwise, without hooking your macbook up to an external display (which in itself, is a seperate requirement).

As for the antiglare itself, some people are simply not going to like the silver. I don’t like the silver myself, but I like matt (antiglare) displays personally and am happy to pay a little more for that feature, at the compromise of the aesthetics.

In fact, I really really don’t like the silver frame, but I stress, it doesn’t bother me when actually using the display. That said, although I will always try to put function before aesthetics, in the case of the silver frame not being to my liking, I did opt for the hi-res as a result of wanting a matt display and agree that I often find it more comfortable to increase text. But generally, graphical applications give me so much more space to work with and icon-based applications are generally easier to work with at scales where text would not.

To me, it is about maximizing everything you want. Sometimes, that means a tradeoff or two, but in the case of antiglare it can be the tradeoff between actual comfort of use and happiness in aesthetic.