Notes on Apple’s Nano Texture
Jonathan Borichevskiy (via Peter Steinberger, Hacker News):
In the four months I’ve had it I’ve told at least a dozen people about it, and I’m gonna keep telling people. Being able to take my entire computing environment to places without being worried about glare has expanded the range of environments I can create in. It means I get to be in environments that are more interesting, fun, and in tune with my body.
What follows are some thoughts about how this display has fit into my day to day life in the couple of months I’ve had it.
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fingerprints, splatters, and smudges are mildly annoying indoors but almost fluorescent outdoors
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Closing the MacBook results in slight rubbing on the screen at the bottom of the keyboard / top of the trackpad, leaving scratches on the screen. So far this isn’t detrimental when the brightness is up; it’s only visible with the backlight off
I rarely use mine outdoors, but it even makes a big difference indoors when you don’t have control over windows and other places glare might be coming from. It’s really great on airplanes.
Previously:
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I was planning to get an M4 Air last year, but Michael’s general perspective on the M5 MacBook Pro had me reconsidering. As Michael wrote in October,
“These days, I think the base MacBook Pro seems less like an odd duck and more like a natural fit between the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro with the Pro processor. Compared with the MacBook Air, you get a larger and better display, longer battery life, more ports, an SD card slot, better sound, HDMI. If you need one or more of these things, but don’t need more RAM or CPU cores, you can save $400.”
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/10/15/macbook-pro-m5-2025/
I went with a refurbished 14” M4 MBP, both to save some money and to avoid OS 26. For $1,900 I was able to get the nano-texture display and (of course) the features Michael listed. An Air with the same RAM and storage would be $1,750 new or $1,575 refurbished. (All numbers include tax.)
I tend to use a Mac for a long time. My prior machine was a 2013 Air. Over just a few years or so, the extra $150–325 I paid for a nano-texture display MBP instead of an Air seems negligible, and I’ve already appreciated the display more than any other feature of upgrading my choice since I work in a bright environment with overhead lights.
