Screen Attributes - "Pantone validated"?

My wife, who is an avid photographer - but who regrettably up to now has been adamant to continue using Adobe products she has learned at her job - is in need for a new laptop.
She’s considering a special offer for an ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 OLED 15,6", which has a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 6 GB GPU and i7-13700H CPU.
The OLED screen is specified with a resolution of 2880x1620 (3K), 100 % DCI-P3 color scale, “True Black” 400 nits and is “PANTONE validated”.

To me this basically sounds like a good (PC and) screen for working with images, although the resolution is a somewhat “in between”, but I’m unsure how that will work out in practice.

But what on earth is “PANTONE validated”??
I’ve believed PANTONE is a color “system” that is more haphazardiy defined (?).

pantone is a color system for reproduction of colors in production. if you use pantone colors throughout your process it should be easier to ensure that the colors in your product in the end match your design.

https://www.pantone.com/license/about-pantone-validated

how useful the validation is … the opinions seem to be split https://www.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/1b5rc93/pantone_validated_monitors/

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Thanks. darix, that reddit link seems to confirm my scepticisme about usefulness.

you should do your own research and maybe first learn what the purpose of pantone. linus tech tips has a pretty great video about this.

I read this the other day and it was a decent overview of the current scene wrt displays and the technology and how they are marketed… you might find it an interesting read as you wade through all the specs and jargon used by the various companies…

https://www.xda-developers.com/hdr-on-mainstream-monitors/