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The display on my current (work) laptop is awful. I'm in the market 
for a new laptop. Can anyone recommend one that will calibrate 
reasonably well with my Spyder 2 pro? (Windows preferred only because 
all my software is Windows.) Thanks

Just about all laptop monitors are 6 bit color, TN type panels. None of them will calibrate well. Best thing to do is get an external monitor that uses MVA,

In a message dated 11/13/07 12:47:55 PM, ajweiss1@... writes:


> The display on my current (work) laptop is awful. I'm in the market
> for a new laptop. Can anyone recommend one that will calibrate
> reasonably well with my Spyder 2 pro? (Windows preferred only because
> all my software is Windows.) Thanks
> 

I'd recommend a 15 inch MacBookPro. The only LED backlit laptop display out 
there. Profiles nicely. The Windows-based graphic designer in my office just 
got one, and loves it. She even runs Windows on it... but not quite as often as 
she expected she would. <G>

I do the same from the other side...   I largely run OS X on my MacBook Pro, 
and sometimes open Windows apps in Parallels, or boot into Windows directly on 
occasion for actual XP or Vista testing.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
Datacolor
CDTobie@...
www.datacolor.com/Spyder3




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--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, "Allen Weiss" <ajweiss1@...> 
wrote:
>
> The display on my current (work) laptop is awful. I'm in the market 
> for a new laptop. Can anyone recommend one that will calibrate 
> reasonably well with my Spyder 2 pro? (Windows preferred only 
because 
> all my software is Windows.) Thanks
>

Thanks Bryan and David. I do most of my work on a Vista desktop, but I 
expect to be traveling more for photo work after I retire from my day 
job at the end of the year, so I would like to be able to maybe do 
some post processing while on the road. 

David: One more question if I may? It looks like it will be the 
MacBook Pro. Do you think my Windows apps (PS, LR, Photomatix, etc.) 
will run reasonably fast on the Mac? Thanks.

Hi,

 

I think the Vaio TX series is also LED based. I have just gone in for Acer
4710 C2D T5500 based laptop. I have gone there from HP/Compaq laptops. I
found that HP/Compaq laptops gave screen brightness of hardly 75 cd/m2 after
calibrating at 6500K 2.2 whereas Acer is giving me 120cd/m2 at 6500K 2.2.
Also the gamut of HP screen was smaller  than the Acer model.

 

Also if you are OK with it. Visit www.insanelymac.com
<http://www.insanelymac.com/>  for OSX86 project for running OSX on the
Acer.

 

Regards,

 

Eesh Dewan

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In a message dated 11/13/07 12:47:55 PM, ajweiss1@yahoo.com writes:



The display on my current (work) laptop is awful. I'm in the market
for a new laptop. Can anyone recommend one that will calibrate
reasonably well with my Spyder 2 pro? (Windows preferred only because
all my software is Windows.) Thanks


I'd recommend a 15 inch MacBookPro. The only LED backlit laptop display out
there. Profiles nicely. The Windows-based graphic designer in my office just
got one, and loves it. She even runs Windows on it... but not quite as often
as she expected she would. <G>

I do the same from the other side...  I largely run OS X on my MacBook Pro,
and sometimes open Windows apps in Parallels, or boot into Windows directly
on occasion for actual XP or Vista testing.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
Datacolor
CDTobie@...
www.datacolor.com/Spyder3




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