MBP's antiglare display = LCD

Question

This year in january I bought a new MBP with the new LED display. First thing I noticed then, was the huge difference in image quality and luminosity. Different colors though, but with the proper calibration seemed to be ok even for correcting photos. The downside of the LED for me was the highly reflective surface that killed my eyes in no time. I couldn't say it was entirely because of that, but my reading glasses went one number up in less than 6 months.
When that MBP suffered an unfortunate accident and became almost unusable I decided to by a new one. I looked up on the Apple's online store and decided to get the "Antiglare display" for an EXTRA $50. Honestly, I haven't seen a single word anywhere saying that "antiglare" actually means LCD.
So I got my new $2600 MBP just a couple of weeks ago. I must confess my jaw dropped when I saw the LCD. I figure now the extra $50 were for the labour....changing the LED with an LCD.... because the quality of the LCD is definitely lower than the LED.
As I am really ****** off about it, I wonder if there's anything I could do about it... I don't think I can return it because it has an optional 7200 rpm HDD... I remember since my first Mac that BTO Macs cannot be returned.
And I'm just curious how does this look and sound to everybody else. I wouldn't have bought it if I knew it came with an LCD.

Answer 1

Zeniamin wrote:
So I would appreciate a more detailed explanation on the LED glossy vs LED-LCD technology.
As for now, my new LCD-like-LED display is not satisfying enough with the exception of the missing glare of course.
Thank you for the answer anyway.
Your MacBook does NOT have and LED display.
Both your glossy and your matte finish MacBooks have LED-backlit displays. In days past Apple laptops had CCFL-backlit displays. Now they are LED-backlit.
The displays are now, and always have been, Liquid Crystal Display technologies. The Apple laptop displays have never been Light Emitting Diode technology EXCEPT for the source of backlighting in the current LCD displays.
CCFL stands for cold cathode florescent lamp
LED stands for light emitting diode
Both the CCFL and the LED are used for one purpose in the Apple LCD and that is to provide a source of white light behind the liquid crystal elements.
The majority of home computer users as well as technology writers do not have any understanding of what LCD and LED mean let alone CCFL. They are clueless how the technologies even work. They, like you, think that a computer display is either LED or LCD.
Google around a bit for LCD and learn how liquid crystals are used to produce an image by virtue of blocking some light and passing some light. It is a very fascinating subject. Do the same for LED. Learn what an LED is and what is required to make a bunch of little tiny light sources produce an image. Both of these use the same principal as the CRT in that they all 3 provide little sources of colored light that shine into your eyes.
The CRT and the LED actually produce light that your eyes see. The LCD does not produce light but rather depends upon an external source of light to shine through the LCD elements (little colored windows) then on to your eyes.
It is very fascinating technology to me and seems well worth anyones time to read about it.