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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 99059" data-attributes="member: 162">Re: Apple MacBook Pro - Antiglare vs RetinaThe Retina display is fantastic.&nbsp; I went from a 2009 17&quot; anti-glare to the Retina last summer, and love it.&nbsp; The &quot;non-antiglare (glare?)&quot; screen hasn&#039;t bothered me as much as I thought it would - as part of the Retina deal, there isn&#039;t an extra piece of glass on the front like in older glossy models, so there are a lot fewer surfaces to contribute to glaring.&nbsp; There is a significant performance difference due to the SSD drive in the Retina models, if you can live with whatever capacity of drive you can afford.&nbsp; The thickness (thinness) is amazing as well.The external optical drive is OK, but I&#039;ve found it&#039;s a little more movement sensitive than an internal drive, so you can&#039;t bump it while you are using it.&nbsp; I hardly ever use mine - USB drives are so ubiquitous it takes extra work to bother to burn a CD/DVD.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 99059, member: 162"] Re: Apple MacBook Pro - Antiglare vs Retina The Retina display is fantastic. I went from a 2009 17" anti-glare to the Retina last summer, and love it. The "non-antiglare (glare?)" screen hasn't bothered me as much as I thought it would - as part of the Retina deal, there isn't an extra piece of glass on the front like in older glossy models, so there are a lot fewer surfaces to contribute to glaring. There is a significant performance difference due to the SSD drive in the Retina models, if you can live with whatever capacity of drive you can afford. The thickness (thinness) is amazing as well. The external optical drive is OK, but I've found it's a little more movement sensitive than an internal drive, so you can't bump it while you are using it. I hardly ever use mine - USB drives are so ubiquitous it takes extra work to bother to burn a CD/DVD. [/QUOTE]

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