Customer Reviews

Fellowes Flat Panel Privacy Filter for 15.0-Inch Laptop (4800101)

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I purchased this item because I was looking for something that would help with the glare and give me some privacy.

I sit in an angle in an office, but when someone passed the door into my office, they could see everything in my screen. Since I work with confidential data, I was always concerned if my data would be shared with someone that I didn't intend to share.

This filter is wonderful! Nobody can see that I have a filter because you don't have to mount anything but just peel off the film that comes to protect the filter and place into the screen.

Unless somebody comes behind my chair, nothing can be looked. It is just perfect. I'm not sure about the glare. I'm still trying to figure it out if it helps with the glare or not.

I tried the filter in an open space. If you sit in a location where people can walk directly behind you. Even if you are far away, everybody can see your screen like you don't have a filter. It only works from side angles. So if you sit at the end of a hall, with your computer facing straight to the hall, nothing happens.

Also, the computer screen gets darker, so it takes time to adjust to your eyes.

Overall, this is a wonderful purchase!

This screen filter works great. My screen is not visible to anyone but me. This is handy for goofing off in class. lol

The privacy filter itself is fine -- the small adhesive patches they provide to not stay adhered to laptop for more than a few minutes, therefore, the privacy screen won't stay in place and is useless. They need to send additional adhesive patches and/or better ones that will stay attached.

I have the Fellows filter on one laptop and a 3M filter on my work laptop. The plastic sheet itself is nearly identical as far as the angle of clear viewing, how it goes dark from far edge to near as you move out of center, the small arched gap on the edge to lift the sheet out, and the screen size numbers printed near the edge. I believe the numbers on the Fellows product are more transparent, which is nice.

I could wish the angle of viewing were narrower, but I have not found a filter at any price that is better.

The main difference is the sticky tabs used to hold the sheet against the screen. The 3M tabs are long and do not extend far into the screen area. The Fellows tabs are narrower but extend further. The problem with the narrower tabs is that there is not enough adhesive to hold the tabs on properly. They started falling off the day I applied them.

I eventually had to super-glue the tabs (and briefly, my thumb) to the frame of the screen.

My filter fits my screen perfectly, thanks mainly to specifically checking the width and height against the flat area of my screen. You can't just go by the diagonal measurement with these.

All told, I would buy this filter for my future laptops.

The clear plastic tabs used for hold up the protector have a weak adhesive that can fall off your laptop screen easily. The privacy filter suffers from very bad glare under florescent lights found in commercial office buildings. I would consider this an average product.

Bought it because my boss keeps nosing on my screen as I'm sitting next to him.

The size of this filter is exactly 15 inch, computer screen are rarely exactly 15 inch, they are usually 15.4 so don't get it if your monitor is 15.4 it is too small. The angle only works for side to side, not up and down, so if someone is standing over you they can still see it. I returned it right away.

The sizes of these computer screen covers is wrong. If you have a mac, this will not fit correctly for a 15inch mac. bad product. overpriced.

I read the reviews and with high hopes took a chance.
The filter probably works a little better than I had actually expected. If someone isn't standing over your shoulder they probably won't be able to see more than a dim screen if anything at all. Well worth the cost if you're just looking for decent filter to add privacy.