Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable"

An anonymous reader writes "Professional digital photographer and website publisher Rob Galbraith has performed both objective and subjective tests on laptop displays, finding that the late-2008 Macbook Pro glossy displays are 'deep into the not acceptable category' when used in ambient light environments. The Apple notebook came in dead last for color accuracy, and second to last in viewing angles (besting only the Dell Mini 9). He concludes: 'Macs are no longer at the top of the laptop display heap in our minds.'"

Comments

Re:In other words...

[daath93]

I've pretty much been vocally anti-Obama for about a year and a half, and I hate glossy screens, and macs too for that matter, since we are spouting irrelevant asides in replies.

Hugs and kisses.

Re:Okay, fanboys...

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

And the situation is the same for desktop, servers and network equipment as well.

You wouldn't seriously run OS X on network equipment would you?

(or servers for that matter, but at least there's some cases where you'll want to)

Re:Macbook pro 17"

[Lars T.]

You lost me. The curreebt price difference probably isn't much different and the added cost of changing the production run seems to already be factored in because they already cost more to buy in the first place..

Yeah, that's obvious. You ignore that not only the price can change (because the production has almost completely shifted from matte to glossy - I bet you think IDE drives are still cheaper than SATA too), but also that changing production from having one (or rather no) option to two options increases price by more than the difference in price for the materials. It's quite clearly my fault I didn't just turn off my brain like you did. Sorry.

Re:Macbook pro 17"

[Lars T.]

So you didn't ignore it, you just didn't care about those facts? What an intelligent, well thought out reasoned post.