HP pavilion 15 Screen brightness and color accuracy?

[Dankormast]

So I've been thinking about buying the hp pavilion 15 cs0003no. It goes for a great price but as ill be using it for graphic design I want to have a good screen. And ive been trying to look for detailed specs on its brightness and color accuracy. Does anyone know where that information could be found or if it doesnt exist? Thanks in advance!

[EddyK]

Hello @Dankormast,

Since this is a consumer notebook, HP doesn't provide much information regarding the display panel. 

The most info I can provide is the fact that the HP Pavilion - 15-cs0003no outputs a max of 220 nits.

RGB coverage info is usually covered by expert reviewers such as https://www.notebookcheck.net/

Unfortunately, I couldn't find many reviews regarding this specific laptop model.

Hope this helps,

Eddy

[David_J_W]

As @EddyK indicates, the Pavilion is a budget range consumer notebook about which only limited technical information is published. The specification says the screen is IPS, which avoids the horror that is TN for any sort of critical colour judgment (the contrast and colour perception noticeably shifts as you move around a TN screen). In a notebook in this segment, I think anything beyond the published specification is likely to be 'as low as it gets'. As such, I would expect a 1080p IPS screen that falls a fair way short of 100% sRGB and goes to no more than modest brightness. HP might use multiple panel suppliers, which are not necessarily providing panels of the same specification.

If you want specific guarantees about brightness, gamut and bits per subpixel (many 8 bit displays are actually 6+2 FRC - though modern FRC implementations are close to the performance of non-FRC panels) then you will likely have to jump up to the business ranges which have guaranteed specifications in the respective QuickSpecs document.

HP have some brilliant systems for graphics design at the top end - but with a price tag to match, unfortunately. You can have a laptop with a 4K screen with active pen, 100% Adobe RGB, 10 bits (actually 8+2 bit FRC) per subpixel and calibration software that supports an external colorimeter - but the HP ZBook Studio x360 G5 with DreamColor screen is at the opposite end of the range to that Pavilion at some 3-5 times the cost of the Pavilion depending on the precise specification chosen.

Even if your budget doesn't stretch to the ZBook, I'd encourage you to consider one of HP's x360 systems that has active pen support. Pen can be a much more natural way of interacting with digital artist software, Photoshop or even vector graphics software such as Illustrator. You cannot add active pen support after a system is built - though in many cases you can buy a system that does support active pen without the pen, meaning you don't need to spend any money on the pen until you are sure you want it.

Any screen used for serious graphic design should really be regularly calibrated and profiled with a colorimeter or spectrophotometer. Of course, all this process can do is properly adjust and then characterise the screen you have; it cannot expand the gamut or dynamic range of the hardware.