Apple Nano Texture display

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1. To me it looked "grainy" (along with something like diffusion glow and rainbowing I think), and I can't give up the high contrast that I've gotten used to.

   Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

2. It's perfect for the iPad, it adds just a little friction to the pen and makes it much more paper like in feel too.

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

3. The nano-texture adds a filter-like appearance, resulting in a lower contrast ratio than the glossy panel.

   Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

4. such a huge QOL improvement if you take your laptop to various places where you can't control the lighting

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

5. It's a special coating which works differently to standard matte screens wich makes it way superior.

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

6. Nano-texture Apple displays largely address that, but then they're much more expensive.

   Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Light Mode InFFFFFFlation”

7. The nano texture screen coating is clearly better for my purposes vs a glossy screen.

   Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

8. It has a paper-like quality to it that I've not seen with any other laptop display.

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

9. apple's textured screen is superior in terms of sharpness and color/vibrancy

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

10. For those of us with astigmatism it's really night and day experience.

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Apple Introduces MacBook Pro with All‑New M5 Pro and M5 Max”

11. I couldn’t get used to the “dusty” appearance of the nano texture

    Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

12. it's just way more comfortable to look at, for me at least

    Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

13. Glare is just never a problem, no matter where I am.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

14. the nano texture screen decreases the apparent pixel density, so much that my eyes don't perceive them as retina screens

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

15. Now they can sell you "nano texture" at a premium after getting you hooked on functionally terrible displays

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

16. The blacks are getting washed out from light in the room that is diffused by the matte finish.

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

17. So both matte displays and nano-texture glass scatter light, and they both reduce contrast.

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

18. I can't go back to the low contrast and washed-out look of matte screens

    Criticizes · Nov 2025

19. The second photo makes the Nano texture look pretty washed-out

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

20. 100% of the time it just reduces the picture fidelity somehow

    Criticizes · Nov 2025

21. How dare you even trying to compare otherworldly nanotexture™®© to a regular horrible PC matte screen!

    Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

22. When you're trying to deal with shadows it does get annoying when you're nerfed even just a little bit

    Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

23. have been continuing to use it on a daily basis - everything I wrote stands

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

24. It looks great but I can't imagine I'll be up to the cleaning protocol.

    Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

25. You’ve convinced me that this might be worth it on a laptop display.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

26. I also like NanoTexture way more than I thought I would

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5”

27. I love the nanotexture on my 2020 27” 5k Intel iMac.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

28. It's a shame they don't offer it on the macbook Air

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

29. for portable use the nano texture laptop screen

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

30. wouldn't have been needed in the first place if Apple didn't kill mat screens in the first place

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

31. Do that on one of these and you'll get these little white smudges visible on blacks.

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

32. the extra flexibility wouldn't be worth the loss of convenience

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

33. nano texture display option also got a price increase

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%”

34. So, I would call it a massive step backwards !

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

35. That's really not something new or innovative

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

36. I noticed the difficulty cleaning too.

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

37. Again, Apple didn't invent anything.

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”

38. subjectively, I liked it even less.

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Notes on Apple's Nano Texture”