Choosing new MBP purchase based on screen

My 2 year old 15" MBP bit the dust - it appears to be the GPU, but Apple can't confirm it, so they won't do a logicboard replacement. That makes it a write-off in my book; paying £750 for a 90 warranty on something that could fail again isn't something I'll do, especially when new MBPs can be found with a 12 month warranty for not too much more - plus the battery is dead, and the hard drive sounded like it was on the way out.
Being full-time in web development/startups, I'm anti-glare only, which almost makes a new MBP buying decision easy. However, I've been wondering;
1. Will Apple launch an anti-glare 15" soon? I'm not 100% sold on having 1920x1200 in a 17" screen. I'm used to it on my 24" Dell, but not on a laptop size screen.
2. Will a 15" 1650x1080 anti-glare screen ever exist? That would be perfect for me - I would rather hold out for that than buy a 17" anti-glare, but that isn't really an option as I use my Mac all hours of the day for work. This week without my MBP has to be factored in as a holiday.
3. Could I get a 15" with gloss and buy something like this;
http://www.photodon.com/MBP3-450x339.jpg or will that give unsatisfactory results?

Hi, N.Cauldwell.
1. Will Apple launch an anti-glare 15" soon?
2. Will a 15" 1650x1080 anti-glare screen ever exist?
No one here knows the answer to either of these questions.
3. Could I get a 15" with gloss and buy something like this;
http://www.photodon.com/MBP3-450x339.jpg
Sure you could. $40 might not be too much for you to pay to find out whether or not you could get it applied satisfactorily (a real chore with any film) and live with the fuzzy image it would give you. The distance between the LCD and the antiglare film (at least the thickness of the glass, and I'm not sure whether there's also a narrow airspace between the LCD and the glass) is likely to appear to be filled with a pea-soup fog. But you won't know what it looks like until you try it.
You write, "Being full-time in web development/startups, I'm anti-glare only", as though the two things were clearly related. They aren't. Lots of people do web development on glossy displays. Have you tried one to see how you like it?

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Definitely that's clear Leopard needs no promo to sell it.
Maybe I wasn't clear. I'm saying that Apple usually supplies it;s OS to previous hardware Mac buyers so long as you purchased the Mac within the last 30 days from the Leopard release, right?
I'm just asking do you think there will be some overlap in that 30 days, and chance at all, that if they release Leopard Mid month as expected that I would fall into that 30 day grace period and get the OS for free? Lets say I waited till the last day of the iPod promo, the 16th this month, then do u think Leopard might release before the 17th of next month?
Or from Apple's past history, no chance in ****, they figure those things out and wouldn't allow for someone to 'score' twice essentially like that.
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My iPod64Touch is frozen at that screen, with no way to get to settings. I have even pressed the top (on/off) button and the button at the bottom (front) at the same time, and it just returns to the frozen screen. Let it drain, recharged, and get the same screen. I'm sure this is Apple's way of forcing me to send all my 6674 items to my new MBP(Yosemite), and know it will not include my Amazon purchases and personal CDs that are on the old MBP. I don't use videos, photos, or anything other than music on the iPods.
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iPodTouch 64 ------------------------------------12/24/14 9:33pm
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I use this device in the cars only, and have played it many times until last week, when I got the frozen screen after disconnecting from my husband's car. The CAR couldn't have tried an update, right? I forgot about Sync, didn't I? I've now checked the box to "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically". Why didn't I see that before now? It's possible that the update was so large, that the iPodTouch wouldn't take it and just quit, without completing the update, but left me this unresponsive screen.
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2008 MacBookPro: Mac OSX 10.5.8, 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM; capacity 185.87 GB, Avail: 17.06GB
Retina mid 2012 MBP: OS X Yosemite 10.10.3; 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7; 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3; Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB; 499.05 GB, 440.61 GB free
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