Vaio CW "Royal Indigo" Color Question?

I just bought the Sony Vaio VPCCW27FX/L from bestbuy.com and I am wondering if this laptop looks more blue or purple?

From my current PC's display, it looks like a royal/navy blue; however, I read a user review who complained that the color looks unmistakably purple - especially in direct sunlight.

I was wondering if any CW owners on the forums owned the royal indigo version and if you have any opinions about its "true" color. Any contributions or pictures would be most welcome!

 

Indigo is, contrary to popular belief is not a purple, but a violet. Purple is a mix between blue and red, while violets are on the short end of the spectrum, around 420 nm wavelength.

Of course, "Royal Indigo" can be anything, as it's a marketing name. Seeing the true colour of it on the web can be difficult, though, as true deep indigos lie outside the colour space of most monitors, and monitor calibration (or lack thereof) can have an extreme effect on "corner colour" approximations.
The best description I can give is probably "close to the colour of a deep violet iris", i.e. slightly warmer than real pigment indigo (which is the colour that unwashed blue jeans used to be up until the 1980s).

 

Thanks for the wonderful information! Your response has been a great help indeed, and it seems like a color I will be most happy with.

So I guess, since I am a guy, will I have any problems using a notebook this color in public without getting any "Wow, why is your laptop is purple?" comments?

I am looking for something that is decidedly NOT purple, which as you have astutely indicated - it is deep indigo, not purple. But will the average person, not attuned to the nuanced subtleties of the visual light spectrum be so inclined as to view this as being "Blue" or "Purple"?

 

Is this what you're looking for?



Found via Google Image search for Royal Indigo, first page.

More pics here.

Looks blue to me.

 

I can use Google too

...the problem is it looks very different depending on what monitor I view it on, with shades ranging from very purple to very blue. I just wanted to know if any CW "royal indigo" owners know if it comes off more purple or more blue in person.

Obviously the color itself is sort of the border between blue/purple, so monitor calibration has a huge impact on what the color looks like when viewed on a PC.

Some people have asked this question in the owners lounge, but no one ever gets an answer, and there are no live pictures up of the color.

 

I found my answer in the CW C2D owners thread after some perusing...

I'd say that's a definitive answer - it's purple.