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Many designers and gamers on the other hand prefer glossy screens as they look more vivid.

I work at a company that amongst other things sells mid-high end monitors (mostly to photographers and graphic designers) for people who need the colours to be true (we distribute monitor-calibrators and colour systems). We also have Imacs that we look after for a customer in the office right now, and some cinema displays. We happened to be moving some stuff around recently and I was stuck by the texture differences between cinema displays and Imacs versus the lovely soft displays on say an Eizo or high end Benq.

I can only say it is all about looks rather than function for any machine with a glossy display.

I don't think my Thinkpad is as glossy as a MBP

Perhaps this thread should be titled, 'Why are Apple monitors shiny"

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