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Are you guys only using the external card+monitor for color or these days many of you are trusting more everyday the same monitor as you use to edit/interface to judge color?
Resolve has more features for that as time goes and many of us edit in laptops with no problems, so... whats up these days?

Depends on how picky you clients are.

Do you care about your work? If yes, then you should verify and check that what you're seeing is according to the specification you're working with. This can be done with any monitor, but it is easier with an I/O device and a proper monitor.

+1 to both answers above.

of course, there's always the fact that you can't guarantee that your viewers 'monitors' are going to be anywhere near calibrated, but if you send it out right, it won't be your problem

If you do it right it will be the right amount of wrong on any display.

If I were you, I'd make that my sig, Tero. Great way of phrasing it!

I prefer Leslie's "not my problem any more" attitude.

If it's not client-critical, i.e. the situation doesn't threaten to come to pointing fingers, I'd say it's safe to assume that Windows would not interfere with the signal path. Not so with MacOS, though.

Of course, you need to calibrate the monitor in order to be able to trust it. And I mean calibrate it properly in hardware, not just WB and gamma as many automatic calibration tools do.

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I don't have room for a separate grading monitor, so I have to use the GUI monitor.

It's pretty close to accurate, but it's not perfect. I have to review everything outside of Resolve on a calibrated system, and every so often something that looked good in the GUI doesn't look good on the calibrated display, so I have to make notes, make corrections, and review again.

It's not ideal.