I have finally found something Macs are better at

[andrewducker]

I spent an hour trying to choose paint colours for the kitchen (the insurance people are repainting), and being confused because the colours on the Dulux website didn't match the samples booklet.

And then I got Erin to look at the website on her Macbook.

And everything looked just right.

(It's a cheap laptop, and I've never noticed the colours on anything looking odd before. But clearly they do!)

Comments

[birguslatro]

That reminds me that the colours of scans were truer on my old CRT monitor than on the laptop I replaced it with. It may have been because the scanner was also old though and set to look good on the CRTs of it's era.

[matgb]

That's not the Mac being better, it's your laptop being cheap.

If I use the same software on my Linux box plugged into my old monitor, my new monitor, my cheap bedroom HD TV or Miss H's top of the range Sony TV and get completely different results, especially on the 'dark' range and, weirdly, green.

One game I used to play on Windows (C-Evo, a Civ2 clone/reboot) was unplayable on the cheap TV, the colour was so poor that you couldn't see any real details.

There's also a chance that changing settings on the laptop change things, I used to love messing around with gamma correction when I was doing web design (and yes, that was a pain to get colours to work well given the variety they have to deal with).