Built for bankers working out of Upper Hill towers, advocates reading briefs between sessions at Milimani Law Courts, auditors handling KRA client files, and consultants who open a laptop at Java House or on a Nairobi Expressway shuttle, the MacBook Pro 16-inch A2485 Privacy Filter answers a problem the Data Protection Act 2019 turned into a compliance question: shoulder surfing. A 16.2-inch display running at 1,000 nits sustained brightness stays legible from three metres away across an open-plan floor. The A2485 privacy filter cuts that to a dark rectangle for anyone seated off-axis while your own view stays sharp.

Unlike other electronics retailers in Kenya selling universal-size sheets that leave 8 to 12 millimetres of bare glass along the bezel, Mascom International measures and fits the MacBook Pro 16-inch A2485 Privacy Filter to the panel itself. Users consistently report that a poorly aligned filter is worse than none, because trapped dust along an edge shows against the black bezel every time the display wakes. At Mascom International, we're seeing corporate buyers order in batches of five to twenty units for finance and legal departments. Bring your MacBook to Kimathi Street and collect it fitted the same afternoon.

A2485 is Apple's model identifier for the 16-inch MacBook Pro released in October 2021 with the M1 Pro or M1 Max chip. Because Apple reused the same 16.2-inch panel and bezel dimensions on later 16-inch bodies, this filter also sits correctly on the A2780 and A2991 models from 2023. It does not fit the 14-inch MacBook Pro, any MacBook Air, or the older 2019 Intel 16-inch machine, which uses a different screen shape. Check the model number printed on the underside before ordering.

Anyone viewing from more than about 30 degrees off centre sees a dark grey panel with no readable text. Micro-louver film works like a set of vertical blinds measured in microns: light leaving the screen straight ahead passes through, light heading sideways hits the louver wall and stops. In practice a colleague at the next desk, a passenger in the seat beside you, or someone standing behind your shoulder at an angle reads nothing. Someone directly behind you can still see the screen.

Yes, slightly. Micro-louver film passes roughly 75 percent of the light hitting it, so you lose about a quarter of the brightness reaching your eyes. On most laptops that matters. On the A2485 it rarely does, because the panel sustains 1,000 nits full-screen and peaks at 1,600 nits for HDR content, several times what a typical office laptop produces. Raising screen brightness two or three steps restores the working level you had before, and also tightens the effective privacy angle.

Our technicians fit it for you at the Kimathi Street counter, and that labour is already inside the KSh 5,000 price with nothing added at the till. Bring the MacBook in during store hours; application takes about 15 minutes including panel cleaning, dust removal, alignment, and a final edge check. If you order for countrywide delivery instead, the filter arrives with mounting tabs, a cleaning cloth, dust-lift stickers, and an application card, plus step-by-step guidance from our team over WhatsApp.

Yes. The film mounts on slim adhesive tabs seated along the bezel rather than glue across the whole panel, so it lifts away in a few seconds and clips back on just as fast. That matters during client presentations, screen-sharing sessions with a colleague, or when two people review a spreadsheet together. Store it flat in the sleeve we supply rather than rolled, because a rolled film develops a memory curl that stops it sitting flush afterwards.

The outer face carries an anti-glare coating that scatters reflections from ceiling fluorescents, window light, and the bright afternoon sky common in Nairobi office towers. The same coating hides fingerprints better than bare glass. Blue light attenuation in the 380 to 450 nanometre band reduces the harshest part of the spectrum during late evening work. 

Universal 15.6-inch sheets sell around Nairobi for KSh 1,500 to KSh 2,500, but they are cut for a 16:9 shape while the A2485 panel is 16:10. The mismatch leaves bare glass at the top and bottom, and the buyer usually fits it themselves with mixed results. The KSh 5,000 here covers correct dimensions, our fitting labour, a 6-month warranty, and a free re-fit if it lifts. Spread over two years of daily use that works out near KSh 7 per day.

Yes. The film measures about 0.4 millimetres thick, well inside the clearance Apple leaves between the display and the keyboard deck when the lid shuts. Thicker aftermarket panels of 0.8 millimetres and above press against the keys and, over months, leave shine marks on the screen coating. Ours does not. You can also leave it fitted while the MacBook sits in a sleeve or backpack for a matatu commute, since the tabs hold under normal bag pressure.

Three ways to order:

Every filter comes with the 6-month Mascom warranty stated above.

Buyers across Kenya rely on Mascom International for accurate model matching, current Nairobi pricing, and fitting handled by people you can find behind a counter rather than a phone number.