Hi Adam,

I’ve had the same experience with my iBook. But on the plus side my 17″ Studio display is radiant with rich colors. If I’m not mistaken, I believe it is possible to connect your PowerBook to one of Apple’s Studio/Cinema displays.

Actually, if I’m not mistaken you can connect your PowerBook to any monitor with the right adapter. But yeah, it’s just your PowerBook. I’m on a Toshiba Satellite 15″ laptop and it looks incredible. I’d leave it if I were you. But then again, even though I love this design and am insanely jealous of your skills, I’m kinda curious what you’ll do next if you redesign. So do whatever your gut tells you, but know that the dull colors are just you.

I’m on an iMac G4 w/ 17″ display – the same of which is on the Powerbook 17″ and this site looks great.

Viewing it from a Toshiba Laptop 15″ screen, running Windows (ick), the site appears almost the same.

Perhaps you need to adjust some settings, such as brightness.

I’ve stated before, I really like this design, even on my Mac.

Hello again Adam,

Another thought crossed my mind regarding your dilemma. You could pic up a KVM and share your current Dell monitor with your PowerBook. IOGEAR.com has a nice selection of KVM’s and adapters. I own myself and find it quite useful.

It doesn’t look dull from here. Running on Ti PowerBook G4.

Thanks for the cheering up, all. I knew I could count on you guys. As long as the site isn’t looking dull for the rest of you, I suppose I can deal! :)

I actually tinkered with connecting my Dell monitor to my PowerBook back when I first got it. The proper adapter was supplied with my laptop. I think I’ll hook it up again and see what that does!

Is this just because of the difference between Mac & PC default gamma settings? I was under the impression that that was what made PC monitors appear slightly “darker” and that could make colors look more saturated or bold.

No it doesn’t seem to be that. My best guess is that the brightness and contrast are conflicting. simply put the white levels are too high even for a Mac.

I always forget how helpful a Google search can be. I came up with a helpful little write-up by a guy named Simon Brown. My display still doesn’t look as “correct” as my Dell monitor, but, wow – what a difference when I switch between the default calibration and the one that Simon supplied.

How’d you like to share said write-up? :-)

Yes, please do share! :)))

Oh, sure! Here it is:
http://www.simongbrown.com/photoblog/2004/04/10/1081615422000.html

Thanks Adam! :)

I spent a bit of money to calibrate my iMac and Powerbook 17″ monitors soon after purchase and there’s no difference between each when viewing your site – which is resplendent in colour I might add. The marked difference between the standard and post calibration settings for both machines was remarkable – so do calibrate if you can, even by eye using ColorSync.

You could try changing the calibration and pushing the gamma value up to 2.2. Standard, it is set to 1.8 on a Mac.

I haven’t changed the gamma but I do have calibrated monitors and both on my iBook and my eMac the site looks just as great.

Happy 2005 btw Adam!

Hi Adam!

I showed your site to a friend and he looked right at this page, but the design seemed broken. So what happened? He used Internet Explorer 6 on Windows. The problem was your post #12 that contains a pretty long URL. Firefox and Safari display the link on the top of the comment box. But IE widens the box to fit the link in it and the whole content area jumps to the left.

I miracally came across an article on this topic. Here is how to shorten long URLs in Movable Type:
http://tinyurl.com/3z6ty

If you want to leave the comment system as it is, maybe you will find this service usefull: http://tinyurl.com/

Greetings from Germany
Simon

(I did not want to post it here, but your contact formular is out of order.)