How hard is the glass on Retina MacBook Pro

Solution 1:

As you can read on: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5998/macbook-pro-retina-display-analysis the glass is not the same as on the usual MBP but instead created using two layers of glass.

But the thing is the new Retina MBP does not have the cover glass. That does mean that if you scratch it in a way you are scratching the real LCD and not just a cover glass which would be the case if you scrach the display on a MBP.

Hope you can decide from that whether or not you should use a screen protector.

Solution 2:

I have an older version macbook pro. The anti glare version which also does not has this glass glossy layer. Got this MBP in early 2011 and been using it daily. In and out my bag, even dropped it 2 times and there are bumbs along the body. But the screen is still in perfect condition. Not a single scratch and I even had people pointing with paws on my screen :(

So yeah this is not exactly the new retina screen but I think you can say that you don't need the screen protector.