Calibrated wide-gamut display measurements

Reading the manufacturer websites, there is a lack of hard data on the exact color gamut provided by the various displays offered. This is particularly a problem for the wide gamut displays. If someone wants to use a laptop for color-critical work in publishing, graphic design, video production etc then they need solid comparative data to guide a purchasing decision.

Gamut comparisons by area, in two dimensions (on the CIE xy diagram), are inaccurate because the brightness of a color is factored out. Unfortunately these are commonly used for marketing, often with suspiciously rounded-off figures like "100% AdobeRGB". A better comparison is in to compare gamut volume, in three dimensions (in the CIE XYZ or, better, LAB color spaces).

This requires hardware to measure the screens. But this hardware is now commonly available - the Spyder 4 and 3, the i1 Display or ColorMunki. And presumably, most people who buy this sort of wide-gamut laptop also have a screen measurement device and use it to produce an ICC profile. That profile has all the data we need to make a good comparison.

So, this thread is for people to post their wide-gamut laptop ICC profiles, so we can compare them and create a body of solid, objective data that will be helpful to forum members.

Please post:

1. The model of your laptop (e.g, HP EliteBook 8560w)
2. The exact display type (e.g., Dell PremierColor)
3. The hardware you used to calibrate it (e.g., Spyder 4)
4. The software you used to run the calibration (e.g. XRite i1Profiler)
5. If there are multiple display modes (sRGB, Adobe, native) which mode you used
6. The ICC profile itself

Results will be summarised over time in the next post in this thread.

 

reserved for summaries

 

I'm not sure if this is a good assumption to make. With the RGBLED push manufacturers have been doing for the past ~2 years, many upper-midrange consumer laptops have a wide gamut screen option, and the average gamer isn't going to spend $100-$200 on a device they don't understand when they can just use the manufacturer's SRGB preset.

Also, most people enjoy oversaturated colors - after all, they make everything seem more vivid. As a result, it might not even occur to many wide gamut display owners that what they're seeing is "wrong" in the first place.

 

That is a good point. I had assumed that over-saturated colours would be seen as a problem, and that the whole point of buying a wide gamut display was to use the wide gamut. I guess "most" is incorrect in my initial post but I hope that "some" is still accurate and that some of those people whoo have calibrated will contribute to this thread.

 

My Alienware M17x R2's RGBLED panel is a little oversaturated, maybe cause partially it is glossy, but I haven't bothered to calibrate it yet. Maybe when my friend lets me borrow his Spyder 3 Pro..