Silver border around my screen, instead of black.

Question

I chose to add "MacBook Pro 15-inch Hi-Res Antiglare Widescreen Display [Add $ 150.00]" to my MacBookPro, but has also gained a silver border around my screen now, instead of the black. Why?

Answer 1

paller wrote:
Still, I do not understand why Apple chose to use grey instead of just the other one.... They should just have made this grey one black aswell looks way cool'er..
Easy,
The anti-glare film is applied directly to the LCD panel at the LCD panel factory and in order for the anti-glare film to exhibit it's properties, it needs to be exposed directly to the light rays bouncing off of everything so it can diffuse them at the surface layer and give you a nice clear picture to view.
If you think about it, a glossy pane of acrylic/glass over the anti-glare LCD panel would render the anti-reflective properties ineffective.
So a bezel is needed to hold the anti-glare LCD panel in place in the frame, so Apple decided to use the same strong aluminum that the casing is made out of, likely from a spare cut off of the machining process along the line, which makes it less expensive than producing a whole new bezel from another material, perhaps at another factory.
Apple could have colored the aluminum bezel black, however that would have obscured the "MacBook Pro" logo at the bottom, and then that would have had to be changed. So it's a snowball effect of too many steps to get the two bezels to look similar, which was very likely hard to do.
But dude.. u just made my day! i'm happy i chose the antiglare now (as i'm working as a graphic designer) ^^, well i've been since I first got the mbp, but lso thought alot about the border around the screen aswell...
As a designer myself in my early days, we had CRT displays and they were all glossy and even slightly rounded, which reflected even more than the flat panel glossy displays of today.
So as a youngster I was wondering why my eyes hurt everyday at work, I was having headaches and so forth, but didn't know (nearly no one did) what the cause was and just accepted it as a occupational hazard.
Then one day we all got these silly looking anti-glare screens hanging in front of our CRT's, they didn't look pretty but it sure did help us be more productive because we could observe the screen for the long hours required to keep production on schedule.
but lso thought alot about the border around the screen aswell...
That's the artist in you wanting to look as cool and trendy as possible, however there is a practical side of things, your computer is a tool first and a fashion statement second.
People who hire you are not going to judge you too much what tools you use, but by the quality of your results in a price and time frame they can accept.
Now if your really serious about changing the silver bezel for black, you can contact TechRestore here who specializes in turning glossy screens to anti-glare, which include a black bezel.
http://www.techrestore.com/pr/macbook-air-matte-screen.html