Question about Color requirement

That example showed VRAM but there are lots of other things in that file, including minimum screen resolution.

It'll be slow, but at certain budget levels, that's not an issue, and colour criticality won't be, either.

The speed issue will affect the final quality of the overall grade since you will not be able to beat your own internal adaptation, especially if its a 'mouse-drag' interface. Generously, if you haven't "gotten there" in about 20 seconds, you won't.

The other thing is that the MacBook displays all use a colour dither to simulate higher-density gamuts, so what you are really looking at, best case scenario, is an approximation.

Someone once said that "good enough" is the mortal enemy of excellence.

jPo

The other thing that will become an issue is that below the recommended display size/dimensions, the UI will become illegible, since it uses a fixed font size and layout. There have been a lot of complaints about that.

Its a race car, and doesn't come with GPS, leather seats, BOSE sound system, air conditioning, or cupholders.

jPo

Why don't you just attach another monitor to the DVI out of the Macbook Pro? I run Color fine with a 23" Apple Cinema Display attached to my 2.2Ghz 15.4" MacBook Pro.

Incidentally I can also run Color on my 2.2Ghz Macbook - not that easy to see what you're doing but works.

Without an additional monitor Color works fine on a 15.4"MBP but, as other people have said, the interface is not as easy to read and the colours in the MBP display shouldn't be trusted.

With a 23" Apple Cinema Display showing the scopes and preview it's fully functional as far as I'm concerned - the colours on the Apple Display are good enough for most colour correction tasks.

I have another set up on my MacPro using two monitors and an additional output to an Apple Display driven by a Kona LHE - this is as good as it gets without forking out for a proper broadcast monitor IMHO.

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I can still work on color just not at 100% efficiency, more like 70-85%.

Without dedicated control panels... more like 20-30% efficiency, at best, if you somehow get really good at it, 17" MacBookPro or not. Mousing is like eating peas with one chopstick. You can do it... but why? The only thing you can do is stab the poor things, one at a time.

Would you drive a car if you could only either steer, brake, accelerate, shift, or talk on your iPhone but none in combination? Think back to the days of Flight Simulator with the arrow keys, a-z throttle, and stick-man graphics on a PC-XT. That would be a better approximation of COLOR on a laptop. With panels you can make somewhere in the neighborhood of 6-9 adjustments before a mouser can find the dot on the 3-way circle, and they're no longer looking at the picture. Anyone who has waded through 12-1400 events of a feature would never go back.

Disclaimer: I'm a full-time colorist/VFX artist with my own fully-configured facility, and I only use the Tangent panels.
jPo

PS, I'm always amused at these 17'(sic) monitors: Seventeen feet? Wow! Its like that 16" Stonehenge menhir from Spinal Tap.....

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