I own a MacBook White that boasts a glossy wide screen. When I booted it up for the first time, I realized what the Apple store lighting did to my eyesight. It tricked me into believing the MacBook glossy screen is just as good as the TrueBrite screen of my Dell. I really wanted a glossy screen because I rarely use a lamp when I work. I also prefer to bring DVD movies along when I’m traveling and watch them on my notebook. I pretty much live on my Dell Inspiron 700m, spending 12 hours minimum staring at the screen. The 700m has one of the best glossy screens of its time. It’s almost plasma quality and it’s not a “wash out” - meaning when you look at the screen at an angle, there are no shades and the colors do not change.Sure, all laptop screens washes out, but the MacBook glossy screen washes out more than either XBrite displays like what you’d find in Sony laptops or TrueBrite like the one on my 700m. The MacBook glossy screen washes out even when you look at it on an angle slightly off center. With my MacBook, I cannot watch a movie properly unless my eyes are directly staring at the screen in a perfect perpendicular.

The OS X software (Tiger) runs fine. I’ve found it is more reliable than Windows XP. It experiences a few hiccups, like when you’ve just downloaded new software, for example, it doesn’t quite boot in the same perky manner that a Core 2 Duo computer should. Well, OS X works as advertised, more or less.

But the MacBook screen is one of the real heartaches I’ve experienced after buying a Mac. I know the MacBook is cheaper now at $1099 being the base price for a white MacBook, but does Apple really have to cut corners in such a meaningful way?

I made this short video to get my message across to Apple, consumers who are thinking of buying an Apple product and the Apple fans who I believe are in denial about their MacBook. I’m afraid I don’t have topnotch video equipment, I just used my phone camera.

- Aries C. G.