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Recommendations for A Monitor

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ADubin

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I'm currently using a 15" Mac Book Pro to edit photos using PS CS6 and LR4 and interested in purchasing an external monitor for this computer. I have room to us a 21"H X 31"W monitor on the area of my desk. I like to spend in the $500 range, and a refurbished is an acceptable alternative. Your recommendations for a monitor would be greatly appreciated. Also what color calibration do you recommend I consider buying too? ADubin
 
If you're using a 2012 MBP and going the third-party antiglare route, I would highly recommend that you hook up your computer in-store to any monitor you're considering. 650M drivers are not especially well optimized for third-party displays at the moment. I recently had to return an HP ZR2440W connected via DisplayPort due to fuzzy text rendering.
 
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Chasey, That is an excellent suggestion. ADubin

chaseychasem said:
If you're using a 2012 MBP and going the third-party antiglare route, I would highly recommend that you hook up your computer in-store to any monitor you're considering. 650M drivers are not especially well optimized for third-party displays at the moment. I recently had to return an HP ZR2440W connected via DisplayPort due to fuzzy text rendering.
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I need to use it to process Adobe RGB files. ADubin

MCAsan said:
narrow color gamut for sRGB work or wide gamut to handle Adobe RGB files?
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chaseychasem said:
If you're using a 2012 MBP and going the third-party antiglare route, I would highly recommend that you hook up your computer in-store to any monitor you're considering. 650M drivers are not especially well optimized for third-party displays at the moment. I recently had to return an HP ZR2440W connected via DisplayPort due to fuzzy text rendering.
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This is not a fault of the graphics driver and easily fixed: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090828224632809
 
Thank You

MCAsan, Thank you very much for the links to these websites. That will help me decide which one I want to purchase. Arnold

MCAsan said:
Then you likely need a IPS panel monitor that does wide gamut. High performance monitors for photo editing come to mind.

You might want to check out the following sites.


http://www.squidoo.com/photo-editing-monitors
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402114,00.asp
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-lcd-monitors/
http://mansurovs.com/best-monitor-for-photography
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You are welcome. You have a second thing to consider. Do you want a docking station?

For example the Thunderbolt display is a nice 27" IPS panel like the Dell U2711, and a couple of others that do 2550x1440 resolution. But the Thunderbolt display has docking station features such as integrated speakers, integrated power supply for the laptop, USB 2 hub (which I hope is soon upgraded to USBb 3), and FW (which I personally don't want at all). The closest thing to that package would be something like the Dell U2711 monitor (around $800) and the announced Delkin Thunderbolt dock (announced at $399 but now shipping yet). Note the Delkin dock does not provide a power supply to a laptop.

So I think that despite the big bucks up front, the Apple Thunderbolt display is a good value if....big if.....you want both a good 27" IPS panel and docking station features for a Mac laptop.

I am hoping for a Thunderbolt Display refresh before the end of the year. I don't know if they will increase the resolution to "Retina" levels (whatever that would have to be on a 27" panel); but I would expect the upgrade to USB 3 and maybe dropping FW.
 
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MCAsan, Thanks for your additional info. I'm starting to do some research on the apple thunderbolt display (27-inch). Atnold

MCAsan said:
You are welcome. You have a second thing to consider. Do you want a docking station?

For example the Thunderbolt display is a nice 27" IPS panel like the Dell U2711, and a couple of others that do 2550x1440 resolution. But the Thunderbolt display has docking station features such as integrated speakers, integrated power supply for the laptop, USB 2 hub (which I hope is soon upgraded to USBb 3), and FW (which I personally don't want at all). The closest thing to that package would be something like the Dell U2711 monitor (around $800) and the announced Delkin Thunderbolt dock (announced at $399 but now shipping yet). Note the Delkin dock does not provide a power supply to a laptop.

So I think that despite the big bucks up front, the Apple Thunderbolt display is a good value if....big if.....you want both a good 27" IPS panel and docking station features for a Mac laptop.

I am hoping for a Thunderbolt Display refresh before the end of the year. I don't know if they will increase the resolution to "Retina" levels (whatever that would have to be on a 27" panel); but I would expect the upgrade to USB 3 and maybe dropping FW.
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