There’s loads that separates an excellent show from a foul one, and many extra to separate an excellent one from an distinctive one. Color gamut, brightness, distinction, pixel density, pixel response time, and refresh fee all play large roles, however finally crucial issue is how properly the display screen can show photographs and the way simple it’s so that you can see it.
After testing the Acer Swift Edge 14 AI, which is the primary laptop computer to include Corning’s Gorilla Matte Pro show therapy, I’ve seen the sunshine. I now need each laptop computer to have this tech and I dread testing any laptop computer that doesn’t have this tech. It nails the “easy to see” equation and permits the most effective qualities of a show to shine—actually.
Matte versus shiny screens
There’s plenty of debate about what’s finest for show high quality. Some say {that a} shiny display screen permits the purest transmission of sunshine from the show to your eyeballs. I can’t argue with that. But having fun with that pure transmission requires a really perfect setting setup to reduce the glare and reflections that find yourself on such shiny shows.
Anti-glare finishes on screens could make reflections darker, and matte finishes can diffuse gentle that’s hitting the display screen, so mirrored gentle sources are much less distracting. Traditionally, although, these anti-glare and matte choices have diminished distinction (undesirable on high-quality OLED shows) and launched sparkle to the sunshine emitting from the show.
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Corning describes this sparkle as a “grainy or even greasy” look to the display screen. And having put matte display screen protectors on a bunch of gadgets from my telephone to my laptop computer, I can see precisely that form of graininess and greasiness generally. But the trade-off is that I don’t see my mirror picture or vibrant lights mirrored on my shows.
For a few of us, that trade-off is value it. It’s why my colleague Chris Hoffman now prefers matte over OLED in his laptop screens.
The Gorilla Matte Pro distinction

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Why it issues
I love OLED displays on my laptops. Between their colour and distinction, they appear phenomenal—in the best circumstances. But I take laptops far and wide, and until I’m at house, I normally don’t have management over ambient lighting, overhead lights, environmental brightness, and so on.
When it’s too vibrant or there’s a powerful gentle hitting my display screen, I’ve to crank the brightness of that shiny OLED show to proceed utilizing it comfortably. It’s the same situation if I wish to sit in entrance of a window and have an honest view whereas I work. The gentle pouring in by means of the window will gentle me up after which all I see is my reflection on the display screen, until I crank up the show’s brightness in flip.

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That elevated brightness comes with an enormous tax on the laptop computer’s energy utilization and battery life. A laptop computer which may’ve run all day might final only a few hours with its show brightness amped up. Good luck doing work on a stunning patio in the midst of summer time.
This Gorilla Matte Pro end sidesteps these points. I can work in entrance of home windows. I can go outdoors (although I’d nonetheless keep away from angling it up in the direction of the sky for the most effective expertise). And even in difficult circumstances, I can maintain the brightness degree low whereas nonetheless clearly seeing what’s on display screen, which helps lengthen battery life a lot farther. That’s big.
It’s little shock that extra high-end gadgets—for instance, Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra, Apple’s iPhone 17, and the MacBook Pro—are providing comparable glare-fighting options and that Corning’s Gorilla Matte Pro gained a CES innovation award this year.
This tech merely lets great shows look their finest extra of the time in wider circumstances. As somebody who loves a great-looking display screen, I now need Gorilla Matte Pro on all of them.
Further studying: The good, bad, and ugly of OLED laptops
