You literally will see colors you have never seen before on a screen.Īt the very least, buy one of the wide gamut for adjustment work, and the lesser monitor for the non-critical pallette purposes.Īlso, I would not buy either the RAM or SSDs from Apple, as there are better and cheaper alternatives out there. You will save time and money due to the accuracy of the color causing fewer reprints. The difference between a wide gamut and a regular (Apple) monitor is startling.
I use the 30' PA301WBKSV models, but if budget is constrained, they also make a 27' model for about 40% less. I would STRONGLY suggest the NEC wide gamut calibration monitors. You need the 5870 it is 70% faster, but more importantly you do not want the Apple monitors for critical photography applications.
An ideal choice for the most demanding applications, this card features a wider memory bus and higher-performance GPU, resulting in up to 70 percent faster performance compared with the ATI Radeon HD 5770.
For even more graphics horsepower, upgrade to the ATI Radeon HD 5870 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory.
