New M6500 Discussion Thread

Yes, that's a good point. Multiple-drive failure is less likely than failure of a single drive, but it can happen, for various reasons; I mean, if you run over your laptop with a truck, no RAID in the world will save your data...

Maybe more realistically, certain types of controller failures can also result in unreadable disks. Above all, there's always user error, the most likely cause of data loss of all of them.

 

The DPT94 is not the best calibrator for a wide gamut display. See this link for reference: http://www.colourcollective.co.uk/uk/2009/06/profiling-wide-gamut-monitors/ (There are other references as well if you google "DPT94 and wide gamut."

For a fairly decent comparison of calibrators, you can reference this link. It's not very technical, but is consistent with other comparisons that I have read. http://www.colourcollective.co.uk/uk/2008/09/which-monitor-calibrator-is-best/

The Spyder3 is widely considered by people that have tested it against a lab quality spectrophotometer (spectroradiometer) to be "inconsistent" at best. It has wide sample variance, and large variance between calibrations performed on the same system at different times. (But it grades itself well. )

The bottom line is that there is currently no "perfect" solution for calibrating a wide gamut display, other than buying one that has custom filters designed to calibrate a specific target display (like the ones packaged with Spectraview, Eizo, HP Dreamcolor, etc.)

After much research, I settled on the ColorMunki. I'll let you know how it turns out after I receive my M6500.

 

Hi Pablo,

If you are not a photographer, or someone that needs accurate video, then I'm sure you will be happier with the display in sRGB mode. You can put the display into sRGB mode using Dell's Control Point software.

It is unfortunate that most colors that aren't tagged with a specific destination color space will be displayed too saturated on a wide gamut display. This isn't the fault of the M6500 display, but more a fault of the operating system, which doesn't have OS level color management (for non-color managed applications). Even if the OS did have the ability to display all colors correctly, this would still depend on all colors being tagged with an appropriate "color space." Most applications are not "color managed" and therefore define the colors they generate in basic 8-bit RGB, with no color space tag. These colors will display properly on a "legacy" sRGB display, but will appear too saturated on a wide gamut display like the RGB LED display on the M6500.

Wide gamut displays are targeted towards use with "color managed" applications like Photoshop and other photo/video editing applications. If you won't be using these color managed applications, then buying a wide gamut display is probably counter productive. You can make your display look like a "normal" display by putting it in sRGB mode. (There's the answer to why Dell includes such "basic" color controls in Control Point.)

 

Question: Is RGBLED a waste for me?

I'm a developer. I spend most of my computer time in Visual Studio. Occasionally, I do some very basic web graphics: gradient backgrounds, text logos, etc. I'm also partially colorblind. I've had the best luck seeing colors by using EXTREMELY bright screens, like the non-unibody MacBook Pro 17. (As I understand it, that screen isn't so good, but it's been the best for me so far.)

 

I found the sRGB mode to be way too blue/green. Then again people buy their lcd tvs with the blues and greens blown out. Ignorance is bliss. Enjoy your rgblcd monitor. Sorry for the sarcasm. Its been a long day.

 

Hello sgogeta 4,

Out of topic, but do you really have such a high speed Internet connection in Barbados?

It might be an additional reson for me to relocate there.

Thanks,

Antonio

 

Jun Austria,

You have an Outstanding System that kicks Revit’s butt, that’s what I am envies of and
I have to wait, well just for a little while. You know that there are a few other riveters,
on this thread that have their System up and running.

Worldww3, he was rendering all night See post#702. Have you noticed that trying to
get information out of us Autodesk users is like pulling teeth? lol

Do you have a subscription for Rivet2010? I have one for AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite 2010.

 

Probably. The WUXGA screen with the White LED backlight has the same 300nits brightness, same contrast ration and same resolution; however it only covers 50% of the adobeRGB color space. This display will actually show slightly more colors than the non-unibody Macbook Pro you referenced (which displayed aproximately 45% of the adobeRGB color space). If you don't need the wide gamut monitor, then save yourself $140 and go with the WUXGA display.

 

I have also decided to use ColorMunki when I get the machine, plz let us know how it goes. thx!

 

The DTP94 is doing a "great" job (for a colorimeter) with ColorNavigator on Eizo.
From what I have read so far, coupling the DTP94 with ColorEyes Display Pro or even better, the adJUST software by Just Normlich, it can calibrate wide gamut screen with real descent results, better that what you will get with the spyder3 and the DataColor software.
AS much as I 'm concern, I'm doing a lot of web design so I need to switch often from wide gamut to a good SRGB profil, I believe the DTP94 will do the job on my M6500 (I hope so).