Is it necessary to calibrate the monitor on a late 2011 MBP?

I'm an amateur photographer, and numerous blogs suggest it's necessary to calibrate computer monitors. My old macbook probably needs it - 2007 - but an art director friend of mine says recent macbooks no longer need it. Any thoughts on this board which is the case?
thanks

I calibrate my desktop monitor, the one I use for the photoshop image (I don't bother with the second monitor that has the tools on it) but I do not bother calibrating any of my notebook screens.
In all honesty what you really want is for the images you may print to be exactly like what you see on screen. If you can get that with or without calibrating then that is what you look for.
Even with a perfectly calibrated screen if you send a image to someone that does not have a calibrated screen it will look diffrent to them, on there un-calibrated screen.
If you were working in the print industry then it is more important to calibrate everything so what is on screen at my work place is the same when sent to a print layout shop and then to a printing shop.
If Reds look like Oranges and blues look more green then it is time to worry and calibrate.

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