Spyder3 or i1 Display2 for the MBP 17" antiglare ?

Hi!
My new MBP 17" antiglare will arrive in three days, and I'm thus deciding which new calibrator to buy (my old Monaco Optix (the old one, not the XR/DTP-94) is definitely not up to the task).
I've read almost everything I could find on both the Spyder3 and the Display2, and somewhere I read that the Display2 is not able to correctly calibrate LED-backlit displays (such as the MBP one).
I would prefer to go the Display2 route, because it seems to be a little more accurate than the Spyder3, but the later seems to have no problem calibrating both LED-backlit and wide-gamut displays.
The Munki is not an option because of the out-of-budget price point (£335 vs £165 for the D2 and £137 for the Spyder), and the fact that right now I don't need the ability to profile the printer (the epson stock profiles work well enough) and the fact that I read contrasting reviews on its capabilities.
So, the question is: does anyone know (by experience) if the Display 2 is usable with LED-backlit displays, and in particular with the 17" antiglare ?
Thank you all,
Franz

Pink, powdery and badly banded....
I simply don't see those problems on the machines I currently keep calibrated. Those include...
MacBook 13 inch Unibody
MacBook Pro 13 inch
MacBook Pro 17 Unibody
MacBook Pro 17
MacBook core 2 duo 13 inch
MacBook core duo 13 inch
PowerBook 12 inch
JVC RS2 projector
That covers a fair number of different LCD panels and backlights. The native grayscale of those panels dramatically differ from one another, but post calibration the results are far better than without calibration.
The all end up with quite good grayscale matching and minimal banding. I use a gamma target of 2.4 and 6500K white point.
An yes, I do this with the i1 display probe mounted 8 inches away from the screens to further RESTRICT the acceptance angle to only that which is emitted at right angles from the LCD screen. Off angle light contaminates readings particularly on LCD displays. The i1 display (at least the original one) handles light sources with highly variant spectral content (CFL, LED, and HID) with aplumb.
I agree the Spyder 2 was quite problematic. Try calibration with that probe on the screen in both the upright and upside down orientation ----> different results! Also, humidity could alter the characteristics of the trichromatic filters. Sounds like the Spyder 3 was improved, but I don't have any experience with that one.
Admittedly, on an old Toshiba laptop running Vista, I don't get a good grayscale and see an obvious color cast. Then one appearance of the Vista UAC dialog and even that calibration goes out the door. TG we're on a Mac's

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