Apple may add antiglare screen to 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro

This option is currently available only on the 17-inch MacBook Pro

War of the Worlds - Glossy display vs Matte display

 About two years ago Apple moved its 13-inch and 15-inch line of MacBook Pro notebooks away from the Matte display to the glass enclosed glossy displays. The company may now be feeling that these shiny, highly-reflective screens may not be for everyone especially Apple's core professional video and image editing communities, who think that the glossy displays tend to complicate color matching. Others who take their MacBooks out in the field and work under direct sunlight could often find the glossy display quite irate.

Currently, the 17-inch MacBook Pro is the only model which comes with an option for a $50 antiglare screen. The new glossy displays were introduced to provide crisp images and vivid colors which are ideal for viewing photos and movies. They are easier to clean and they produce brighter, richer colors and deeper blacks, for a crisper overall image. Moreover, Apple believes that the edge-to-edge cover glass creates a smooth, seamless surface just as on the iPhone. In fact the whole idea of glossy displays started from iPhones which had a glass touchscreen and black border which was liked by the consumers. In a bid to standardize materials across all the products Apple added these screens to the iMacs.

Several petitions have been made and online threads have been started to voice user opinion, Apple is continuously monitoring this problem and it is rumored that Apple may restore the antiglare screens on the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBooks. Till then users have only two options, either they can settle for the 17-inch MacBook Pro with the antiglare screen or shell out $200 for third-party matte screen replacement programs like the one from TechRestore.