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Is the 'dirty' anti glare coating still there? The UltraSharp monitors haven't compared well against my Apple Cinema Display. I love all the inputs and stand of

by mmgutz 13y ago

Is the 'dirty' anti glare coating still there? The UltraSharp monitors haven't compared well against my Apple Cinema Display. I love all the inputs and stand of the UltraSharp but ultimately it boils down to how good it is for work and the coating is horrible.

what_ever 13y ago
The coating is in fact great. I use U3014 at work and love the that there is no glare on the screen compared to that on my MBP. If I am going to edit photos or watch videos/movies, I wouldn't like it. But for coding it's good.
- CamperBob2 13y ago
  I run a U3011 primary display next to one of the cheap 2560x1440 27" displays that were being sold out of China a year or so ago for ~$350/free shipping. After calibration, the cheap Chinese display blows the image quality of the U3011 away, and the Vaseline-like antiglare treatment on the U3011 is mostly to blame. As nice as their monitors are, I won't buy another Dell display until they ditch that ridiculous coating. The way you fix monitor glare is by not working with a bright light at your back, not by fucking up the screen.
  - gioele 13y ago
    > The way you fix monitor glare is by not working with a bright light at your back, not by fucking up the screen. Some people live in places where they have these things called windows...
    - CamperBob2 13y ago
      Then put the frosted glaze on the window, not on the monitor.
paddy_m 13y ago
I like my apple screens because I can get them clean easily. I never could for plastic screens.
ibrahima 13y ago
Really? I tried an Apple Cinema Display for a week when I did a short stint at one company and I was really annoyed by how reflective it was. Also was dumb that I couldn't set the brightness on Linux without finding a random third party program, but I guess that's what you expect with that level of integration (it would have been nice if I had a Mac, of course).
illicium 13y ago
No, it's not. The '11 models were the last to use the "heavy" anti-glare coating.

by mmgutz 13y ago

what_ever 13y ago

The coating is in fact great. I use U3014 at work and love the that there is no glare on the screen compared to that on my MBP. If I am going to edit photos or watch videos/movies, I wouldn't like it. But for coding it's good.

CamperBob2 13y ago
I run a U3011 primary display next to one of the cheap 2560x1440 27" displays that were being sold out of China a year or so ago for ~$350/free shipping. After calibration, the cheap Chinese display blows the image quality of the U3011 away, and the Vaseline-like antiglare treatment on the U3011 is mostly to blame. As nice as their monitors are, I won't buy another Dell display until they ditch that ridiculous coating. The way you fix monitor glare is by not working with a bright light at your back, not by fucking up the screen.
- gioele 13y ago
  > The way you fix monitor glare is by not working with a bright light at your back, not by fucking up the screen. Some people live in places where they have these things called windows...
  - CamperBob2 13y ago
    Then put the frosted glaze on the window, not on the monitor.

paddy_m 13y ago

I like my apple screens because I can get them clean easily. I never could for plastic screens.

ibrahima 13y ago

Really? I tried an Apple Cinema Display for a week when I did a short stint at one company and I was really annoyed by how reflective it was. Also was dumb that I couldn't set the brightness on Linux without finding a random third party program, but I guess that's what you expect with that level of integration (it would have been nice if I had a Mac, of course).

illicium 13y ago

No, it's not. The '11 models were the last to use the "heavy" anti-glare coating.