Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan: The laptop screens are had to do critical work on. Depending on your angle to the screen, the gamma changes. They also only display 16million colours. A good laptop will allow you to attach an external display. The external display can then be set to a higher colour depth. It just simpl I just got a Thinkpad T20 which allows the external monitor to be set up as an extension of the desktop. In other words, you could have your tools, email program and etc displaying on the LCD, but drag the image editing portion of photo shop to the part of the desktop displayed on the CRT. This is called dual head and is quite popular these days in graphic arts, but not that common on laptops. Regards, Robert At 10:31 PM 12/2/2002 +0100, you wrote: >I am going to buy a new computer within the next month or so, and have >been wondering about the flat TFT screens that have now become the >standard. Specifically, are they any good for Photoshop work? I am not >talking about the high-end monitors here, just the ones that are typically >included with the computer. If they are no good for photo work, then I >will rather save my money and just buy the PC sans monitor. > >Thanks in advance. > >Nathan > >-- >Nathan Wajsman >Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > >e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch >mobile: +41 78 732 1430 > >Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm >General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html