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DO YOU EVEN MAC-PRESS BRO?!?!

I've been looking at this completely the wrong way, when I should have been bench-pressing my laptop all along. Haha

I've notice this with the deepest blacks on my large Dell panel. They suddenly crush... I don't see it on Alienware m14, but there are many different screens, and that one has quite a limited colour gamut.
all depends on your muscles and back  it's fine for me but yeah I can see it can be annoying compared to those skinny aluminium Macs!

yes, I have a panel with similar coverage. I just make it look good on this and occasionally reference on a more standard monitor. sometimes you need to make things look very vivid for them to work well on your average Joe's screen
in After Effects you can apply a working profile that limits the colour to lovely disappointing rec709, for example

One word: trypophobia.

One word: trypophobia.

One word: trypophobia.

Although I'm not in the more experienced group, I don't get the cynicism myself. Personally, I'm a fan of their one handed gimbal, Nebula 4000lite, which, if I'm not wrong, was a first of its kind at the time. Top marks for portability, with its weight limit (around 1 kg) being the only problem. Naturally I'm excited their newer one handed gimbal can take on more load (at least 1.2kg). Even their 5-axis model seems to be a big step up for me in terms of portability from the normal double-handed 3-axis gimbals.

Things require time to be made, correct?
 
The problem with these forums is the fact people from so different origin come to post and say anything as it is the most consensual truth. As matter of fact, experience speaks on our behalf. We can't put some worker with one, two or more decades of experience in the same basket of some young fellow anxious to see the bird out of the cage. I'm sorry but that's what it is. Our actions speak by itself. To infer some manufacturer has some trouble because didn't post any sample footage in half dozen of days, only pops up as evidence of it. Instead.

The beef of them with RED is the fact the company has a policy of overpriced accessories when the initial idea was to disrupt the industry. Jarred still uses the line. At a certain point, companies like Sony or Panasonic became more client friendly than the one used to make the rules of the business change.
They succeeded to launch a camera that placed the offer for a fraction of the supply then. The infamous 103,000.00 F900 rate reduced to the promising $17,500 for identical formatting of a digital cinema camera body! Almost ten years later, the market model is not the same anymore. Panasonic offers professional recording 10-bit 4:2:2 option for free in their consumer line (hence YAGH, not AF200 as proof of it), Sony has resisted but outputs 4:2:2 even though still* 8-bit and sells a cine zoom lens under $2,500. A good part thanks to RED, true.
Actually, sad to see now the same company playing the same role usually performed by the giants of this sector before. Who've wisely gotten the lesson much earlier than that one to still keep trying to preserve the current mainstream instead. Bizarre. Innovation was replaced by hold the line attitude. That's what HFR 8K is, at an unfriendly indie rate. 4K4all tag (by RED) accordingly. It is a pity. BMD is the only winner over here. And their clientele, of course.
I know some RED early adopters who work and live for buying the yearly updates. Where's the obsolescence obsolete concept? Only in the marketing. All these tricks have annoyed serious non'sheep people as for instance Ed who has been a voice against it. Along the years, I've seen a few others to follow the track. Some of them I personally brought to RED. Hence my inner POV and, sorry who can dislike it, also educated from inside.
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* Unfortunately, RED is out of the game where BMD can help to make FFC's dream even more real than today.

Throwing another player into the mix: http://www.msi.com/product/notebook/PE60-2QE.html .

The quality of the monitors varies a lot between different models. 
Matte screes are always preferred for color sensitive work such as grading. 
You can find tests on this site : http://www.notebookcheck.net/
There are quite few thin and light latops (Dell XPS 15, Asus g501jw, Gigabyte P34/35 v2/v3,...).
But if you insist on a latop I would suggest you look into workstation models such as the lenovo P50/P70, Dell M4800/M6800, HP Zbook 15/17 (dreamcolor). These are meant for heavy work and will not sound like a turbine while thermal throttling when you want to process a 4K video (Macbook inlcuded) . Plus they allow for much more RAM and expandable storage. 
About the prices you can always find very nice deals at ebay. 

Yea, best to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism. Especially since they claim overheating is a false issue (or perhaps they are just referring to the A7S series).