{"id":48,"date":"2008-05-20T05:57:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T05:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/installingcats.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2008-05-20T05:57:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T05:57:12","slug":"led-screen-color-balance-macbook-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/2008\/05\/20\/led-screen-color-balance-macbook-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"LED Screen Color Balance MacBook Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a follow-up to my previous post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/installingcats.com\/2008\/03\/02\/best-laptop-screen-macbook-pro-led-backlit-lcd-display\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">best laptop screen &#8211; MacBook Pro 15&#8243; LED backlit screen<\/a>, I&#8217;ve discovered why the laptop screen is quite different in displaying the same photo as compared to something like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=Samsung%20206bw&amp;tag=zbookclub-20&amp;index=electronics&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Samsung SyncMaster 206bw<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0 !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zbookclub-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> which I use as my secondary display.<\/p>\n<p>It comes down to screen <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gamut<\/a> [pronounced gammet], or how many colors a display can accurately represent.  For example, a black and white display has less gamut than a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cathode_ray_tube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">color CRT with a dead electron gun<\/a>, which in turn has less gamut than a fresh new Apple MacBook Pro LED screen.<\/p>\n<p>Viewing a dedicated display like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=Samsung%20206bw&amp;tag=zbookclub-20&amp;index=electronics&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Samsung<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zbookclub-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0 !important;\" \/> side-by-side with any laptop screen, will make the laptop screen look &#8220;washed-out&#8221; in terms of color, simply because the laptop screen cannot produce as many different colors.  At extremes you&#8217;ll have one color replace another, for example, light reds replacing what should be orange hues (which is the most notable deficiency in colors of the MacBook Pro LED screens).<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t mean the MacBook Pro LED screen is bad, it&#8217;s actually the best in terms of color gamut amongst all of the previous Apple laptop screens.<\/p>\n<p>For a more in-depth discussion of color gamut on the MacBook Pro 15&#8243; LED displays, check out these posts from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oreilly.com\/lightroom\/2007\/07\/led-macbook-gamut.html\">James Duncan Davidson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robgalbraith.com\/bins\/content_page.asp?cid=7-8741-9027\">Rob Gailbraith<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a follow-up to my previous post on the best laptop screen &#8211; MacBook Pro 15&#8243; LED backlit screen, I&#8217;ve discovered why the laptop screen is quite different in displaying the same photo as compared to something like a Samsung SyncMaster 206bw which I use as my secondary display. It comes down to screen gamut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[113,114,115,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}