MBP Display Colors, should the be the same as ACD?

Greetings everyone.
Just bought my 1st Mac laptop (15" MacBook Pro). Before that I have a year of experience with Mac Pro. I've noticed an interesting thing - colors on mbp are little desaturated. I've set up color calibration on both MBP display and 23" ACD identically. But colors are different. Is this normal? Desaturation is about 10% comparing to ACD. Everything else works well.
Thanks in advance.

It's true, a laptop LCD can't perform as well as a desktop. You can calibrate to the same specs, but they will appear different because the desktop monitor will be able to calibrate closer to the target specs. See the interactive chart at the middle of this page.

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