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Feb 02 '12 by Manupix
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What PC laptop for designing? CS2 on Windows 7?

Hey there designers, 2 questions:

Do any of you work on PC laptops without too much color uncertainty? What would you recommend? Can laptops even be calibrated?
The only experience I've had (pixel art on macs, not of the latest kind) was terrible: it's not even possible to guess at what monitor angle the brightness is somewhere near correct.
I really need one for all the month-long periods I'm away from home if I want to keep practicing on a somewhat regular schedule.

Also I have CS2 and no intention to upgrade: is it W 7-compatible? If not, is there a workaround?

Manupix on Feb 02 '12 at 4:46pm

Guys?

toopersent on Feb 02 '12 at 4:53pm

My 4 year old macbook pro is pretty good comparable to my second monitor. I actually prefer to do most drawing/linework on the big monitor and switch to the laptop monitor for coloring because I find it is more accurate.

Can't help you with the second question, though.

Manupix on Feb 02 '12 at 5:04pm

Thanks! Guess there's been some improvement on those macs then! Unfortunately (or not?) I'm pc. I forgot to mention that in the question, silly, shall update.

Manupix on Feb 03 '12 at 10:40am

More opinions?

Manupix on Feb 03 '12 at 6:31pm

bzzzump

agrimony on Feb 03 '12 at 11:34pm

my cs4 is w7 compatible, no idea about cs2 sorry

James Nuanez on Feb 04 '12 at 12:17am

I had CS2 running on Windows 7 for a while and I remember it being a pain. It worked but I believe the issue was that it tried to update every time I opened Photoshop, and therefore needed admin access every time. Just annoying.

If you a laptop with the best display, you need to look at the business models. HP has a laptop with an IPS screen (the best you can get on a laptop) but I think it starts around $2000 and will leave you with very little battery life. My current machine is a Dell Precision M4500 with the upgraded screen and it's pretty good.

Manupix on Feb 04 '12 at 10:29am

Thanks!
I guess I'll have to actually go and see some machines =)

5 days later

Manupix on Feb 09 '12 at 3:10pm

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