Extremely resistant to wear and almost unbreakable, the sapphire glass LCD cover offers many years of reliable use.

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Both machines are characterised by a Metallic Precious Black finish with silver chrome accents on the LCD cover and inside.

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Ideally, I'd like the top cover LCD to always be on so that a thumbnail of my wallpaper and the time would always be bright, but I couldn't find anything in the options menus to do so.

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After the cover is closed, the top LCD shows the current time and wallpaper.

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In the new design, the cover glass is fully laminated to the LCD and an anti-reflective coating is applied using a high-precision plasma deposition process.

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