On Jul 15, 2015, at 6:57 PM, Spinnaker Photo Imaging Center <spinnakerphotoimagingcenter@dnmillerphoto.com> wrote:
Guess I demand nothing less the 17 inch displays. I cannot fathom using a 15 inch display.
The 17" displays are lovely to look at, but the computers themselves are much more "luggable" than portable. Even the 13" is cumbersome for situations where you're hauling stuff around. My laptop is a 13" MacBook Air that I use for anything portable; anything serious I leave for the iMac. The MacBook Air's display is challenging / borderline / unsuited for critical qualitative work, but it's more than ample for any sort of quantitative workflow. If you're doing everything by the numbers and you're confident that you don't need to actually see the full results to know that they're there, it's a great tool. And, I must note...it is possible to get a really, really impressive profile even of a small laptop display using Argyll and a colorimeter with a correction matrix made from a spectrometer. I don't hesitate to do lots of non-color-critical stuff on the laptop, including sharpening. And if it's going to the Web rather than print, the laptop is serious overkill -- you're looking at single-digit percentages of Internet-connected devices with displays as accurate as a truly well-profiled laptop, even with its angle-dependent shifts. Similarly, I'd unhesitatingly put my laptop with its profile up against basically any consumer printer with vendor-supplied color management; it's only when I'm working on stuff "for real" that I pay attention to it. b&