New Toys
The big black monitor is one of these. There’s a lot of buzzwords in the product description, but it does live up to all its hype, as far as I can tell. For example, I threw it against the Lagom LCD monitor test pages and the thing pretty much passed everything. (and considering the cost, it’d better)
It works surprisingly well with Ubuntu, as does color management in general. There are some problems with applications that aren’t color-managed — this is one area where OS X has Ubuntu (and Windows) totally stomped — but that situation is improving, as is my knowledge of GNU/Linux-based color management in general. Currently, I have both monitors profiled and calibrated with Argyll, and my RAW decoder knows how to work with color profiles. I did final resizing and export in GIMP, though; and current versions of GIMP ignore color profiles, which is why the above image will look pretty whack, especially in the reds. I’m in the process of evaluating Linux-based image editors that know how to work with color; Krita and CinePaint look promising.
Also makes for a great software development environment. Nothing quite like having a four-up view on your source tree.