Since I posted the stuff below, I've stumbled upon this site: http://www.markzware.com/blogs/top-5-laptops-for-displaying-color-gamut/2008/10/14/
Food for thought. Jostein 2009/1/29 AlunFoto <alunf...@gmail.com>: > I've done some research in the market over the past weeks on laptops > for image editing, and the results I've come up with are quite > disappointing when it comes to screen quality. > The only online resource I've found that has done some actual testing > for the purpose is Rob Galbraith's site, where he's commented on the > backstep that Apple has made with the new LED-screens for the > MacBooks. > His comments made me curious, so I've tried to research exactly what > kind of LCD/TFT panels the various makers use in their laptops. My > conclusion is that such info is gleaming in absence. However, if you > look at the sites of vendors providing replacement screens, there are > links to all the major screen manufacturers with lists of models > available. As it turns out, the range of models is quite limited, even > across all the major manufacturers. The only screen size that can > still be had with high-quality screens is in fact 17". > > I guess I ought to say something about what I think of as high and low > quality... > > To me, the most important thing about a screen is colour range (gamut) > and accuracy. Below the 17" segment it seems that all screen mfg.'s > delivers only "TN" panels. This is a production technology that only > gives a colour depth of 6 bits per channel, to a total of some 230,000 > colours. Despite what the video card can offer. I know there is some > colour dithering going on, and there's some discussion on Apple vs. > Microsoft when it comes to the quality of the dithering. The bottom > line however is still those 6 bits as opposed to 8 bits obtainable by > other panel technologies. The previous generation of Macbook Pro had > such panels. So had the WideView varieties of some Lenovo machines > like the T60, and some of the Dell and HP models. > > As far as I've made out, the current models with wide-gamut screens > are limited to the 17" macbook pro, the Lenovo W700 and some options > from Dell in the Precision series. There may be other brands with > high-end offerings too, but not in the Norwegian market, I think. > > Jostein > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
