Spot-Nordic P60 ColourBox laptop 16/1TB (SMS Home & Office colours)

The Spot-Nordic P60 ColourBox is a light weight laptop, well suited for the home, office and school, but more important, it is well suited for on-the-go advanced to professional design using the brand new Spot Matching System Home & Office colour palette(s), for web design, TV graphics or CMYK print design at professional/brand level.

The P60 is not the fastest laptop nor does it have all the latest bells and whistles and it does not have the best and the most vibrant display available either.

It is however the first SMS READY PC laptop in the world.

This means that the display of the P60 laptop is optimized for displaying the SMS Home & Office colours – or to be more exact, the SMS Home & Office colour palettes were created using the physical colour gamut of the display of the P60 to create the final colours.

The P60 ColourBox display is a typical PC laptop display, capable of displaying approx. 60% of the colours of the sRGB colourspace, meaning it can display 536.821 out of the 899.155 colours of the sRGB colour gamut.

In order to see the exact colours of the original version of the Spot Matching System (P20 v6, P20e v6 and P20x v6), you need a display capable of displaying at least 100% of the sRGB colourspace.

That is why we have released a custom version of our ECO, Standard and MAX colour palettes, optimized for the P60 display – and similar displays from other manufacturers that we refer to as SMS Home & Office.

According to our research a large portion of even newer PC laptop and notebook displays are in this range – i.e. capable of displaying approx. 60% of the sRGB colourspace.

That again means that  a large portion of customers are NOT seeing even their SMS brand colours correctly on their PC laptop displays, while by using the SMS Home & Office version of the SMS colour, it would be possible for most people on the planet to see the actual colours on their laptop displays – as well as other displays with larger colour gamuts of course.

The reason Spot-Nordic decided to offer it’s own laptop, is the strange situation of the graphics industry, which in itself makes it even more difficult to keep track of brand colours on a universal level than it was 50 years ago, when we only had analog colours printed on paper to communicate colours (only for print or paint).

In our modern digital world Apple monitors and displays are safe to use when working with the original SMS colours and many colours from other colour systems, due to the native large P3 colourspace of Apple displays, from their iPhones to laptops and monitors.

Apple has been extremely successful in winning over the graphics market and hence most graphic designers and anyone involved in the colour industry only use Apple displays. This was fine while we only had Pantone, RAL and NCS colours to work with, all of which rely on printed samples for designers to work with to pick and communicate their requested colours.

At the same time we see a trend where more and more graphic designers and design agencies are actually no longer relying on printed colour guides to pick out brand colours, but have instead switched entirely to picking colours of their (superior) displays.

Designers who are not colour specialists as well may in this environment be tempted to rely entirely on their super vibrant colour monitors to pick out colours for their designs, – colours that look beautiful on their expensive Apple display (capable of displaying the P3 or Adobe RGB colour gamut), while, when they convert the logo to sRGB, the logo will look much duller visually – and to make it even worse, as dull as the logo looks in native sRGB format, on monitors displaying only 60% of the sRGB gamut, that perhaps half of the audience is using, the logo will not even resemble the original, super vibrant logo.

It is our perspective at Spot-Nordic that professional designers should only use colours that can be viewed correctly by any consumer, – otherwise the colours cannot be considered anything but a humbug that only looks good at the design studio and perhaps when printed on a proof during the initial corporate image presentation by the agency, which is worth nothing, when it comes to brand design and could be considered fraud from our perspective (since the colours being sold to the brand owner will in most cases never be presented correctly to the public).

From our perspective using super vibrant colours for a brand logo/brand colours is about as professional as getting lost in 3D effects and forgetting the initial concept of the logo.

It is our opinion that all prospective customers should be able to see the actual brand colours of any brand that they wish to do business with to the extent that any brand should be able to market itself using only it’s colours (not it’s logo) – and by keeping the colours visually consistent in all media, with time, customers will start to recognize the brand by it’s colour(s). This however requires the brand to use SMS colours – since SMS colours are made from the scratch to remain visually identical in all media.

A professional logo/corporate identity can be successfully designed in black and white if the designer knows what he or she is doing. This is in fact one of the main reasons why so many world famous logos are simply black or neutral gray – because colours are not required – and probably also because that before SMS colours came along, colours could not be relied on to appear the same in all media. A good example of such a logo is in fact the new Apple logo, which is neutral gray.

We are offering a total of 5.214 colour shades that are as safe to use as black and gray – and they remain the same in all media and for any purpose, as long as you know the LAB values of your SMS colours.

We are furthermore offering the P60 ColourBox laptop at a reasonable price, so it is a perfect gift for designers and design students as well as a perfect laptop for designers and creatives that prefer a PC to an Apple or are simply not willing to pay 1.500 or 2.000 Euros for a laptop.

Furthermore, for designers and design agencies that usually only use Apple displays in their day-to-day work, it is a really good idea to invest in at least one P60 ColourBox PC laptop to preview what their designs actually look like in the real world, where most people use PC laptops and Android smartphones and tablets. This could be referred to as real-world proofing.

The Spot-Nordic P60 ColorBox laptop is custom built for Spot-Nordic according to our specifications and it is actually the laptop that we use at the office, for onsite and remote presentations so you could say that we put our money where our mouth is and we only recommend products that we ourselves have tested – or use on a daily basis, like the Spot-Nordic P60 laptop, the Calibrite Display Plus HL calibration package and the ColorMeter Exact spectro – see here below.

A copy of the Home & Office version of SMS Standard v6, SMS MAX v6 and the SMS ECO v6 colour matching system in PDF, sRGB format – a total value of EUR 270, excl. VAT, is included in the price of the Spot-Nordic P60 ColourBox laptop.

For information on the Spot Matching System (SMS) and the difference between the SMS ECO, SMS Standard and SMS MAX colour palettes, refer to the SMS website.

Spot Spot-Nordic furthermore offers diploma training in the use of the Spot Matching System for designers and other professionals who wish to master how to correctly use SMS colours in design for all media and how to identify if SMS colours are correct – or not – see https://www.spot-nordic.com/sms/experts/.

If you order SMS READY Expert training at the same time you order the P60 laptop, you only have to pay and extra EUR 60 excl. VAT on top of the price – and pass the test to get your diploma.

The P60 laptop is factory pre-calibrated, but for professional work where SMS colours are used, – and simply to be sure that the colours you see on your monitor as as correct as possible, we recommend a monitor calibration package – see here below to keep your display 100% correct, since all displays drift as time goes by.

The 123 package (see here below) is good enough for simple monitor calibration to avoid trending.

P60 ColourBox -Specs

Colour: Silver
OS: Windows 11 Pro
CPU: Intel N95; Quad Core, 4 Threads
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics
CPU Clock Speed: 1.7GHz; Turbo: 3.4GHz
Screen: IPS 15.6inch, Resolution:1920*1080 (SMS READY for SMS Home & Office)
Memory: DDR4 16GB
SSD: 1TB
Camera, Front 0.3MP
Sound: Stereo, 8 ohm, 2 x 1w. 3.5 mm mini jack input.
USB: 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0.
Bluetooth 4.2
Battery: 5000mAH (approx. 4 hours of normal use)
WIFI: 802.11B/G/N&AC (5G support)
Weight: 1.6kg
Fingerprint Unlock
Backlit Keyboard: QWERTY English

Feel free to contact sms@spot-nordic.com at any time. You may also place your order there. We will need your full name and address for invoicing, along with an email address for invoicing and optionally an email address for technical support. 

Your P60 laptop will be sent to your postal address, once payment has been received.