You can't magically avoid light and reflections just because you have a laptop.

I want to see what's in front of me on my screen, not what's behind me. Worse, Apple no longer makes matte screens for any Mac! Four years after buying my current MacBook Pro, the glossy screen still bothers me all the time. Unfortunately, Apple no longer makes 17-inch screens for laptops. The difference is in the details that make this machine most friendly to customers. In my opinion, the pre-unibody MacBook Pro was the best design ever. It mostly sits in a closet now, though I occasionally boot it up to print documents, because it runs an older version of Mac OS X with the drivers to support my old printer. The 'late' refers to the October introduction date the machine itself is still functional. That honor goes to my late 2006 17-inch MacBook Pro. (MagSafe has saved my MacBook Pro from harm on several occasions.) Yet the 2014 is not my favorite model ever. It has a variety of useful ports, including MagSafe, HDMI, and USB-A, all of which I use regularly. It has function keys, including volume and brightness, which I use every day. The 2014 model has a keyboard that is both quiet and reliable. In some ways, it's superior to the 2018 MacBook Pro, and I have no plans in the foreseeable future to buy a new MacBook Pro.

My main Mac is a 2014 15-inch retina MacBook Pro. Ode to a MacBook Pro Articles index Ode to a MacBook Pro Jby Jeff Johnson

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