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Is it possible to stabilize a failing AG coating on these rMBPs?

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The image doesn’t show the issue well, but my 2014 rMBP is getting worse in terms of the failing AG coating on the panel :(. I looked into the cost of replacement displays years ago and that totaled out the notebook as-is. These days the threshold is a lose lose proposition now that M1 is out, and it has resulted in a market flooded with ‘14 and ‘15 rMBPs like mine. If the chance was there, then that window left when Apple Silicon killed Intel and caused mass market saturation of whole systems.

Failing a economical display replacement due to the limited **official** OS stopping at Big Sur, market saturation due to supply and demand and raw age, is there a way to stabilize the failing AG coating so it no longer spreads and stays where it is at?

Maybe it’s time for me to call uncle to this specific rMBP and admit while I didn't make it to the finish line, I got there 95% of the way. At is point if I cannot stabilize it I'm going to live with it and get a 2015 DG, or buy one of those new 16” M1 Max/64GB/1TB machines… Yes the M1 isn't exactly a 10/10 yet, but it checks all of the major boxes I want to see, on the CTO side — tons of RAM, a large default SSD and it supports the P3 color spec on the internal display (Apple P3) out of the box. I didn’t look super close at the Best Buy demo 16”, but I know those are built around P3 and it was built for it. I even tried P3 on my 2014 — the Epson sRGB 1.8 color profile is a better match with sRGB IEC61966-2.1 being very close.

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My 2014 15inch hast the exact same problem and I looked into it and you can get this gel stuff which apparently removes the AG coating and leaves your display really shiny but after you have removed the coating I’m pretty sure you could just put a screen protector with a anti glare coating on it which should fix the issue

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I got it at a discount knowing the risk, but to be fair it lasted me 1 year before getting worse. Back when I got mine, I paid $516 when the going rate for a unit with less was $600-700+ 95% of the time.

Why pay more when it was going to spread like the disease this issue is? It's a WHEN, not IF issue. The 2015 isn't safe, but it's a bit better.

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Totally agree

I bought Mine faulty and I fixed it and came like that but I’m just waiting for mine to turn into a glossy

Leopard print anti glare mess

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@hellomacos Mine was mostly bad around the edges, so I happily took the discount. I don't regret it because I knew it was gonna get worse with time, and a pristine unit will eventually become trashed too; mine was trashed, so the damage to the resale was done when it was gonna happen now or later.

Southern heat has taken a toll on mine :(.

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From my experience people really don’t spend more or less depending on the ag issue so I wouldn’t expect you to get much less

If you were to sell it as the ag has kind of became the market norm and people are going nuts over these Retina displays that actually work regardless of their condition

So you probably get a fair bit for the display alone

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@hellomacos True, but when I bought it people cared -- like, a lot. So I bought it cheap knowing if I gave up and sold it on I won't lose much.

Seems like they're all diseased with this issue - it's about making sure it's in an area where it can be lived with like I did with mine.

Even the 2018 DongleBook Pro/2019 13" DongleBook with butterfly keyboard is a bad deal because of the keyboard, and lack of ports. From the 2014/15 side the screens are all trashed (and priced accordingly), the OS support is expired once Monterey goes EOL before those are done -- the 2014 is done after Big Sur expired. The 2019 16" fixes the keyboard, but has the port issues and still fetch a premium. The 2021 M1 fixes both issues on the 16" 2019, but it's not cheap. Also, the touchbar is more trouble then it's worth :/.

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