Need Help Question Calibrating computer monitor

Are you going to calibrate that laptop screen?
First I would check that the screen is even a decent one to calibrate. Getting a Good external screen will get you probably way further.

 

Laptop screens are notoriously poor for accurate colour representation unless they are specifically marketed as "design" models. Apple manufactured laptops are usually far better for accuracy and gamut.

As balstestrat says, you'd be faaaar better off connecting an external screen with full sRGB or even AdobeRGB gamut coverage and proceeding to calibrate that.

 

What make & model is your laptop? I'll hunt down some specs.

 

need more info

you need a model

pavillion is a family of products

like saying your car is a lexus,

 

This model has two different LCD options:

If it's the non-HD (1366x768 resolution) the sRGB coverage is a dismal 68%.
If it's the Full-HD (1920x1080 resolution) the sRGB coverage is a much more acceptable 94% with dMax of 2.9 which isn't overly bad.

I hope you have the latter version.

 

probably makes more sense to buy a decent, lcd monitor, and use the laptops lcd as primary monitor.
calibrating even the laptop monitor would be an improvement.