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"The only negative is the software. It is not very intuitive and somewhat daunting at first. After I calibrated my monitor the first time, I wasn't even sure that I had done it properly. The software works fine, and I'm sure it's great for experts, but expect to be frustrated the first few times you use it until you get comfortable with it."
X-Rite has their own way of doing things which often makes little or no sense if you're not one of their engineers, but once you get past that, the software and hardware does do a pretty good job. Having calibrated a bunch of MacBookPros and an assortment of other screens with the i1Display Pro, the best advice I have is to use the largest patch number option, which takes a couple of minutes longer to read, but makes a much smoother and better gray balanced calibration than the default option.
Secondly, that this is crucial! You absolutely have to change the default profile version from v4 to v2. If you don't, it can cause all kinds of havoc in apps that don't understand v4 profiles. This should never have been a default setting but X-rite apparently fell for the latest is best line of reasoning, which is most definitely is not in this case. I always name the profile with the parameters and the date to make it that much easier to make sure that everything is using the latest one I've made.
"ETA: I used it on my MacBook Pro (non-retina; 2011 model) and it worked fine. However, the colors and apparent brightness of the image change sharply with viewing angle on my MacBook, so I'm not sure how helpful calibration is for it. I mostly use the calibration for my external monitors."
Calibration and profiling are great for laptops. You just have to remember to keep you eyes as close to the center axis of the screen as you can. If you do that, a calibrated MBP can be surprisingly good with color.
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