For web dev, a great monitor is critical
I’ve been using my new computer for a little over a week now. I bought the Mac Book Pro 13. One of its features that may not jump off the page to you when looking at the tech specs is how great the screen is. To my horror I’ve gone to some websites and realized I’ve made some serious errors in optimizing my images. Things that look fine on a typical computer screen but look retarded on a really good quality monitor.
If you do image optimization or web work you should seriously consider investing in a very good monitor. Who knows who will see your work and laugh at you because of the mistakes you don’t even know you made? Oh I am so embarrassed.
Those people should probably have two monitors, or at least one that can switch between “good” and “meh” to check both conditions. The color depth disagreement, which I assume is what you are talking about, would also show up in the other direction. If a fancy-pants web guy used a bunch of colors that can’t be rendered properly by my low-spec laptop screen, I’m going to see mud instead of his grand vision.
What where you developing on before you got the Mac Book Pro?