IMO, no laptop screen regardless of computer brand or screen size is truly worthwhile for real image processing work. Only for quick and dirty roughing in.
That said, the matte screens Apple's been using are pretty good and calibrate well. Glossy screens ... well, I dislike them but for what I use a laptop screen for, it doesn't really seem to matter much. My current (now ancient) PowerBook G4 15" works well enough for my needs, the new MacBook Pro 13" and 15" models are what I'll buy next. For any real image adjustment work, I'll connect any laptop with a suitably high quality graphics adapter to a good quality desktop display, and calibrate that. Any laptop without a suitably high quality graphics adapter isn't worth buying for image processing work. On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: > Anyone know of any laptop computers with good (IPS/MVA/PVA) displays? > Particularly any reasonably sized ones? Last I heard there weren't any > high quality displays under 17" and I'd prefer something smaller than > that if possible. > > My current laptop just died. It's a total "nothing lights up" failure, > so I have a sneaking suspicion that it's something very basic and not > a prohibitively expensive fix. But if fate does bless me with an > expensive repair that justifies ditching it and buying a new computer, > I'd like to be prepared... > > -- > 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. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.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.
