When will thinkpads come with glossy screens?

[jagged]

Personally, I wish Lenovo would give us consumers a choice whether to go for glossy or matt on Thinkpads.

I had some glossy screen computers before and although light reflection gets irritating at times especially outdoors, there are advantages like making photos much more vivid.

So all in all, I wouldn't say that glossy screen on Thinkpads is that bad.

[christopher_wolf]

It does, as opposed to how some view such changes, cost real money to change the lines, design, and engineering specs (as IBM/Lenovo would want to make sure that it didn't introduce any conflicts or problems for them to troubleshoot). Nothing wrong with providing a "choice," but, from their POV, it has to make sense economically and not just be an expense on their part to serve a smaller portion of users for a benefit of undetermined extra utility.

[Dead1nside]

GLossy screens just create screen glare... big deal. They're just for making laptops look nice in the shop. They're not functional.

[rkuo]

You can pay www.screentekinc.com to give your screen the glossy treatment. The LCD screens are the same...it's just the screen treatment that's different and can be replaced by these guys.

[Torque]

Hopefully never.
The glossy "crystalclear" screens look nice - but only in dark environments. In light rooms etc. the reflections are a pain.

[asiafish]

All glossy screens are not equal. The MacBook has a glossy screen and my first reaction was that I would never buy one because of it. After seeing them in the store and walking outside and trying it on the sidewalk (with permission and an employee), however, I found that the glossy screen Apple uses is a very good compromise between super gloss and glare control. Yes, it looks like a mirror when turned off, but even under harsh lighting the screen does rather well.

given the choice, I'd buy matte most of the time, but I can see where people like glossy screens better and agree with their arguments as well. I know that when its time to plop in a movie, that glossy widescreen on the MacBook is about the best I've ever seen, while in a dark airplane cabin with the little reading light on overhead, I prefer the matte screen of my ThinkPad.

[naro]

there's actually 'glossy' paper which u can stick onto the laptop's screen..

i'm actuallly considering it cos my fren had a HP notebook with a matte screen and he added the 'glossy' paper and it looked pretty nice..