glossy screens are very good if they are treated with the proper anti-reflection coating. I love the screen of my Vaio SZ6,; the best screen I have! Sony applies a high quality coating.

In my opinion, the absolute best laptop displays on the market right now are the ones found on the Dell Latitude D630/D830 series. No gloss, high-res, and very crisp, clear images. Like you, I hate the glossy style displays and although my Toshiba tablets have them, at least they aren't as bad as most of the glossy displays I've seen.

I hate glossy screens and have always wondered why anti-reflective treatments were't applied to them (like with eyeglasses). My Lenovo X61 has a wonderfully non-glossy screen... now if only it could go a whole lot brighter for clarity outside.

I like glossy screens. I constantly work under overhead lighting and reflection and glare has never been a problem for me; I just adjust the screen to the right position. The added benefit is it's easy to clean and looks much sharper.

So yeah, no problem with them here.

Warner,

Do you find the Tx2051 to be usable with the gloss or not?

Have a good one,

~A

Gee, Warner, I'm not sure I'm clear on your position on this one. Could you summarize and tell us how you really feel?!

I agree, btw - no gloss for me.

D.

To be honest - working at Office Depot I do find more people attracted to the glossy screen. Once you explain that with glossy comes to problem of seeing yourself in it, people tend to understand and change their minds a bit, but they do find it to be...prettier. The same for the laptop cases. I've been showing my girlfriend tablet PCs for when she goes to college, and the one she likes the most is the TX2000 series because it's "pretty."

Also - I've never found glossy screens to be unreadable. You just have to focus your eyes to the light coming out, not the light shining on it.

I much prefer glossy screens on conventional notebooks especially for watching movies or digital TV - the best I've had recently was a dell 1720 with a 1920x1200 screen (LG) - pin-sharp and extremely vibrant. By comparison a couple of Vaio Sz's that I've owned (one conventional backlight, other LED) seemed rather drab for movie watching - the anti-reflective coating is undoubtedly great for business users - not so good for watching video.

There is an argument about glossy screens not being colour accurate or for that matter, true to life (e.g. peoples faces don't actually 'glow')- but for entertainment purposes, I prefer them. Some glossy screens are better than others, e.g. I never liked the Toshiba U200, as it was very reflective and the colours were a TOO saturated.

Worse screen ever, was a M200 with the grainny screen protector removed - it was horribly reflective - against the black background of xp starting up, you might as well have been looking in a mirror.

The T2010 I'm now using seems to have a fairly conventional matte display - movies don't seem too bad either, colour accuracy seems very nice - I have a WD 320GB drive installed, with a 180GB partition just for divx movies - currently 237 of them :-)

I really cant stand glossy screens. Having to adjust the viewing angle away from the ideal for my work environment so im not getting terrrible reflections just cramps my style.
Hate Hate Hate glossy. Just cant stand it. Was playing with a HP tx2000 recently and all i could see much of the time was the ceiling lights whiting out my screen.

Glossy screens = glare = eye strain.

If you see reflections, it makes it difficult to focus.

We have gone from glass CRTs with little gadgets on them to make them non-reflective, to non-glare LCDs, to... gloss?

This has to be a fad that will last until too many people get headaches with this gen of notebooks and gravitates to those that are non-glossy for a replacement.

Hey! If the normal replacement cycle for notebooks is 3 years, could this be a ploy to lower it to 1 year?


Personally, I hope when I need to replace my X61T (non-glossy!) that there will be a non-gloss alternative. Going from a machine I can use in full sun to one I can use only in a dark room would be rather annoying.

I have no problem with glossy screen, but glossy case and keyboards are too much. I once had a laptop with glossy keyboard and after a while, the keyboard becomes looking pretty messy.