M6600 Owners Thread

I need good colors. They are bread and butter for me.

First i'm not suprised projected images suck. I miss the days of slide projectors because seriously with slides: what you see is what you get. I have no idea what projector you usually use but they get quite expensive before they have serious color gamuts and resolutions and contrast...

Soft-proofing is a touchy subject by any means so I agree with you. But I'm happy with what I can do with the ips and the prints of photos get close enough. Beware: this is all using calibrated printers and using icc-profiles when printing and soft-proofing in photoshop.

However, did you try calibrating? If so and your colors still vary wildly, something's wrong. No wonder advisors take some nice cash when helping with color management workflow.
But to be fair: i have no idea what to do with projectors. But prints definitely should be in the same ballpark - have you asked your contractor who does your printouts for the icc profiles of the printer using the specific paper that he will print on?
From what I gather you print renderings/graphics - i do photos. There might be a difference however...

 

People who do webdesign for a living have a handle on color management, color spaces, and understanding the differences between the color management of different browsers. They are not relying on a 100%gamut screen to be accurate for the average website visitor. My NEC Spectraview 27" has a mode to simulate srgb for that very reason.

Also, whether it is a rendering (which I have done many) or a photo, color managed workflow does succeed in getting consistent results. Professional print houses provide icc profiles and print samples when you register to work with them. Yes, if you do switch around monitors, printers, and projectors, you will get varying results, but this is no "ivory tower" theory.

 

Very well said!

 

For me, having an 100% rgb ips panel means that at least people with an 100&% RGB (i.e. colleagues) panel will see almost what I'm seeing. Not sure that all IPS are full RGB though; I do know that some are more than 100% which I'm not sure if it could have any effect on what people see.
With a 100%RGB I also hope to reduce the color distortion others will see: as I understand it, if I have a 70% RGB monitor, I could be missing different colors than others with a different 70% RGB screen, therefore having a 100% RGB I could average the differences: the one who loses reds will still lose it, but I'm not adding to that the fact that I was losing greens, so I'm reducing half of the differences. But I don't know the mechanisms deeply so my logic may be wrong...

Apart from this, my eyes didn't hurt with my old M6400 covet 100% RGB, but they do a lot using my old external Dell U1704FPVt, which is a TFT panel. Does anyone know why? Is TN better than TFT in this respect?
The M6400 covet screen is 100% RGB but it is not an IPS, and I can't find info on what kind of panel it has (backlight LED is just the lighting method) , could it be a TN?

 

It was a TN. LG and Samsung each had one TN panel that would do 8 bits instead of the typical 6. Those were the panels in the M6500. The M6400 may have only been one or the other, but likely both.

With the 72% gamut screen, I see the most difference in shadow details and overall dynamic range of the prints compared to the screen. If I changed the image from 16bit ProPhoto to 8bit sRGB in Photoshop, prints were consistent but I was throwing away a lot of detail.

 

Dear All,

I would like to ask if anyone is using Ubuntu (Linux) with m6600? Is everything ok with hardware drivers, everything works? In particular I'm interested in Raid0 (2xHDD+mini SSD) setup. I plan using Ubuntu at work and Windows at home.

Regards,
Denis.

 

Apologies all around I wasnt intending on creating a firestorm about this issue here and my previous language was not appropriate

We actually have a fairly high quality large format plotter at our office that is constantly recalibrated by technicians with limited success and the print shop where we send our prints out is not the most tech savvy.

I have very particular clients that will fall in love with a rendering they see on my screen and I beat my head against the wall all day attempting a perfect replication on large format paper. And believe me they nit pick the difference in color or hue and saturation. The projector is the property of the city so I dont have the ability for making adjustments and again the techs claim calibration but the end result does not agree.

Apologies again this is not an in plane switching thread or a printer thread so ill keep it on topic now

 

Still searching for a date on the 2960xm

any help would be great

 

DItto but looking for the i7-2760QM. Same series. The 2760 can be found on a preconfigured latitude but not on customizable ones. Prehaps soon?

 

Hey there, I rang Dell in Australia inquiring about the i7 2860qm, and she confirmed the release date being 18th of November for the m6600.