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Real "creatives" _never_ preferred Macs. Mac, until very recently, didn't have any way to calibrate a monitor (and you had to buy a 3rd party monitor to get a full-gamut display), or 10 bit/channel color. For all our color-critical work at our shop, we _never_ used macs.

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It's not helpful trying to play No True Scotsman by defining “real creative” as “what we do”. Anyone with more than cursory exposure to printing, video, photography, etc. knows that there's a sizable percentage of people who vocally prefer Macs – certainly not everyone, but far, far too many to pretend that a claim like “never preferred” is anything other than fanboy hyperbole.

As an aside, what do you mean by “calibrate a monitor”? ColorSync arrived in 1993.

Mac LCD monitors have a LED back light that's too blue and too narrow a gamut to do color grading. Yes, it's true that some of the early CRT machines were capable of this.

So let's correct your statement:

1. Every Mac since the early 90s has had support for color management

2. Most people doing serious color work have to buy a more expensive, professional-quality display – as has long been the case on every platform. This was a staple of reviews for printing, photography, scientific/medical imaging, etc. publications, along with comparing color calibration devices, and a big reason why CRTs persisted longer those fields than the general market.

I hope no one is trusting a "Mac" LCD monitor for any sort of serious color work. Especially the laptop ones are truly awful and hard to calibrate due to the glossy nature.

Heck, a decent HP DreamColor / EIZO / NEC display costs almost as much as the top of the line 15" MacBook Pro.

Apparently, The Mac Faithful do!

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