The price you pay for software and colorimeter with the SpectraView, depending on what country you live in costs significantly less than buying the hardware and software for a non SpectraView. SpectraView will bundle a custom mated Colorimeter with their software for calibration.This is an attribute built from the ground up in SpectraView to serve as a 'reference display system' ala Barco, PressView, Sony Artisan of the past. Apple and other's has nothing like this, nor can 3rd party software you have to pay for extra do this. It is not necessary to manually configure the monitor as all of the necessary settings are made by the software“. All adjustments to the monitor settings are done automatically using this communications link. To quote from the manual: “ SpectraView communicates with the display monitors using Display Data Channel - Command Interface (DDC/CI) which is a two-way communications link between the video graphics adapter and display monitor using the normal video signal cable. SpectraView is a smart display system that integrates custom software for calibration including multiple target calibration's which can be loaded to adjust the display while loading the associated ICC profile, Apple (and few other products aside from Eizo) cannot do this.Apple and many other's don't have anything like this. SpectraView has electric technologies like GammaComp, to adjust the monitor's internal 10-bit gamma Look-Up-Table, allowing various custom display gamma or Tone-Response-Curves to be achieved.All done high bit with compensation for operating time and temperature. SpectraView has electric technologies like ColorComp, which adjusts and improves screen (brightness) uniformity using individually measured matrices for each display at the factory.
SpectraView panels are hand selected from the manufacturer line (pick of the litter).SpectraView has 3-4 year on site warranty.Newer NEC SpectraView's use GBr LED which produce far more precise control of White Point, run cooler, use less energy, run far longer than CCFL.These high bit LUTs allow precise adjustments to be made to the display’s Tone Response Curve without reducing the number of displayable colors or introducing color banding artifacts. SpectraView uses a high bit internal processing path (at least 10-bit) with internal 3D LUTs, many other's do not.But SpectraView can emulate sRGB with a push of a button. Nearly all if not all current SpectraView displays are wide gamut, Apple's and most other's are not (sRGB like gamut) with the exception of the new iMac P3 displays. I can tell you the differences between Apple and Eizo's nearest competitor (NEC SpectraView), they are significant: I have heard that iMac’s are not as good as monitors like Eizo (e.g.