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If you can control the light, a glossy display will have minimal glare and none of the downsides of a matte display.

• wwweston 12y ago
  Of course, if you work in an open-plan office -- and let's face it, despite the evidence that it's an unforgivably stupid way to set things up, most of us do -- you can't control the light. And if you're using a laptop outside of a home/personal office environment (which laptops are presumably built for), you don't have control over lighting either. For tablets and mobile devices which generally aren't used for working at long stretches, I guess I can see the appeal. But it's really strange to me that glossy is popular on machines people do use for long-stretch work -- and often in high-glare overhead lighting open-plan offices. (And not only popular, but increasingly the only available option.)