I just remembered today that the Samsung 2243BWX monitor I purchased recently came with a pre-made (or ‘canned’) profile.
For interest, I decided to compare the canned profile with the Spyder 2 colorimeter profile using the Chromix ColorThink software.
The 2D view of the profiles show the canned and measured profiles follow each other quite well, except [...]

I have been working on a windows laptop for a while, and spending a lot of time at present in front of it, decided to look at an additional screen.
Ideally I would have liked to purchase an Eizo screen, but they aren’t within my budget just yet, so I looked at various screens available around [...]