Benchmarks: Display
Some of the biggest advancements in modern laptops revolve around the capabilities of the display panel. To provide a more meaningful overview of panel characteristics, we're deploying Datacolor's Spyder 4 Elite professional monitor analyser to return a quantitative assessment of display quality.
A 4K IPS panel with a matte coating looks good, and there's more to it than initially meets the eye. Our Datacolor assessment reveals that the SC17's 17.3in display can manage 100 per cent of the SRGB space and 98 per cent of Adobe RGB.
Being able to display a wide gamut of colours is helpful, yet the colours themselves still need to deliver in terms of accuracy. In the above chart, the Delta-E figure corresponds to how close the displayed colours match up with real life and the lower the overall result, the better. An overall score of 0.85 is bordering on excellent.
Brightness is impressive, too, with the display managing 341 nits at its highest setting. Black levels are decent, and though contrast could be better, this remains a very enjoyable, ultra-high-resolution screen.