.Kompressor Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 found this an interesting read by someone who was testing based on his Digital Photography needs. A look at the evolving laptop display Monday, January 26, 2009 | by Rob Galbraith In July 2007, we wrote an assessment of the matte display in the MacBook Pro 15 inch. At the time, Apple was beginning the transition to LED backlights in its laptop line, and what we found was the display was incrementally better than the company's previous offerings in this size and offered a decent platform for assessing and doing basic adjusting of pictures in the field. In short, the screen was good and it responded well to hardware profiling but overall accuracy was a couple of notches below a good desktop display. Still, we concluded that Apple was making one of the finest laptop screens we'd seen for use in a pro digital photography workflow. Eighteen months have elapsed since then, and the laptop display landscape has changed plenty. Apple has switched to a glossy-only display design for most of its portable lineup, Lenovo has released a laptop with a screen calibrator built into the palmrest while netbooks have evolved into surprisingly useful tools for some types of photography. To that end, we've gathered and tested the displays in three current laptops: the late-2008 MacBook Pro 15 inch, Lenovo ThinkPad W700 and Dell Inspiron Mini 9. Well, make that four laptops. Rounding out the testing is the IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60, whose 1400 x 1050 pixel FlexView display has nearly a cult following among laptop afficionados. While discontinued - and not always readily available when it was still officially an option - this laptop's display is so well regarded by those outside the world of photography that when we needed to replace a Windows laptop in the fall of 2007, we opted for this computer with this screen. If only to see what all the fuss was about. We would choose a colour accurate display with a more restricted viewing position over one that showed some colour errors but allowed more viewing position flexibility. You, on the other hand, may favour a more forgiving viewing angle and can live with a few shades that are not right. Neither approach is the better one, but you do have to have an opinion about this for these rankings to hold much meaning, since you can have a really wide viewing angle or really good colour accuracy, but not both in the same laptop screen in this test.Ordering the displays with an emphasis on colour accuracy, the list looks like this: 1. Lenovo ThinkPad W700 2. IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60 3. Dell Inspiron Mini 9 4. Apple late-2008 MacBook Pro 15 inch Ordering the displays with an emphasis on viewing angle flexibility, the list becomes: 1. IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60 2. Lenovo ThinkPad W700 3. Apple late-2008 MacBook Pro 15 inch 4. Dell Inspiron Mini 9 It's important to remember that, even though the late-2008 MacBook Pro 15 inch doesn't keep up in either colour accuracy or viewing angle with laptops from IBM/Lenovo, its display is still quite good and still falls on the right side of the line of acceptable display quality for field use by a working photographer, at least in ambient light that discourages reflections. Full Test Article http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_pag...-9320-9876-9881 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/733758-a-look-at-the-evolving-laptop-display-comparison-test/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Sounds like Lenovo builds some good displays into their portables. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/733758-a-look-at-the-evolving-laptop-display-comparison-test/#findComment-590562124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XIII Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Actually, if they put the display of Thinkpad X61 tablet in the comparison, it will top the list. It is the best display so far: Flexview with AFFS+ and high resolution to boost (1400x1050 in 12.1"). W700 screen is OK but the viewing angle sucks. T60 screen is good but it is older Flexview technology. It is good to keep in mind that Flexview is only available for 15 inch T60 only, the 14.1" uses Samsung screen, which in general sucks. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/733758-a-look-at-the-evolving-laptop-display-comparison-test/#findComment-590562694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Fahim S. MVC Posted February 12, 2009 MVC Share Posted February 12, 2009 No major surprises there... Thinkpads have amazing screens. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/733758-a-look-at-the-evolving-laptop-display-comparison-test/#findComment-590567072 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XIII Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 No major surprises there...Thinkpads have amazing screens. Actually, only a FEW thinkpad models have amazing screens. The rest is much worse than competitors like Dell, Sony, Apple and Fujitsu. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/733758-a-look-at-the-evolving-laptop-display-comparison-test/#findComment-590568890 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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