Hey there,
I have a Windows laptop and a Macbook. I prefer my Macbook for every day stuff due to it's great screen. The whole desktop just looks way better and more lit. From time to time I also make some graphical work. Yesterday I printed a poster that I made on my Macbook. The colours where way different than the ones on my screen.
I realize that it can be the fault of my printer and CMYK settings, but whatever: The point is that I worked on a specific brightness settings of a screen and the results may vary on other hardware. My work will look different on other monitors. I tend to edit a lot of dark videos and working on a specific cd (brightness of a screen) value could be very bad. I remember complaints about my videos from LCD-monitor users when I worked on dark scenes with a CRT-monitor.
I guess my Win laptop has a cd of 200 (per "I forgot"), my Macbook has 250 and my new ordered monitor will have 300.
You can't make it right for every hardware out there, but there might be some average cd values that I should consider to work with. Does somebody know such an average value? I'm speaking of laptops and monitors. No TVs or iPods or whatever.
What do you do? Ignore this "problem"?


