HP Mobile Workstations with DreamColor at DVinfo.net

Pat Reddy · October 20th, 2013, 08:35 AM

These powerful notebook PCs seem to offer a great solution for editing video or stills (switchable color spaces include Adobe RGB and Rec 709) and can be bought for about the cost of the full-sized DreamColor monitor. They are also "ruggedized" for field use:

HP Mobile Workstations with Dreamcolor | BH inDepth

Does anyone have any experience with one of these?

Pat

Panagiotis Raris · November 14th, 2013, 09:41 PM

Hi Pat,

if you dont need mobile editing, ie you can get away with editing later on, i would say save the difference between one of these and a calibrated nice monitor on a serious editing machine. I review stuff, do my cuts etc on a laptop, but finish colorwork and editing on a dedicated machine with a calibrated monitor. I still use an ancient CRT calibrated monitor for color correction; no substitute for the right gear.

What are your needs? do you do mostly field editing or can you cut/edit a bit, and then correctly edit/deliver later? thats a decent chunk of cash to put down for very specific needs.

October 20th, 2013, 08:35 AM	#1
Pat Reddy Major Player Join Date: May 2006 Location: Colorado Posts: 288	HP Mobile Workstations with DreamColor These powerful notebook PCs seem to offer a great solution for editing video or stills (switchable color spaces include Adobe RGB and Rec 709) and can be bought for about the cost of the full-sized DreamColor monitor. They are also "ruggedized" for field use: HP Mobile Workstations with Dreamcolor \| BH inDepth Does anyone have any experience with one of these? Pat

November 14th, 2013, 09:41 PM	#2
Panagiotis Raris Major Player Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Reading, PA USA and Athens, Greece Posts: 269	Re: HP Mobile Workstations with DreamColor Hi Pat, if you dont need mobile editing, ie you can get away with editing later on, i would say save the difference between one of these and a calibrated nice monitor on a serious editing machine. I review stuff, do my cuts etc on a laptop, but finish colorwork and editing on a dedicated machine with a calibrated monitor. I still use an ancient CRT calibrated monitor for color correction; no substitute for the right gear. What are your needs? do you do mostly field editing or can you cut/edit a bit, and then correctly edit/deliver later? thats a decent chunk of cash to put down for very specific needs.