I have a Toshiba x205 laptop and I want to calibrate it. It has only one mechanical control, more or less bright.

I turned the brightness all the way up and used my Spyder II Suite, and after the calibration, I could see that the calibration brought the monitor down to 6500K, along with its color calibration and whatever else it does, like set black points, etc.

Is this all we can do for laptops?

Yes, that's all you can do is adjust backlight brightness. You don't want to adjust too much with the profile, because the more radical adjustments you make, the more posterization/banding you'll see onscreen.

Thanks for the reply. I let the Spyder do everything and did no other adjustments using the vid card software or anything like that.

It looks pretty close to my professional 23" LCD panel, except the laptops panels ate the cheaper type of technology (forgot the types of panels) and my home unit is the best type--viewing angles, etc. You have to be dead center on a laptop or you get washed out or bright/dark colors. One of the main reasons I bought this laptop--I sold another one about a year ago and haven't missed it--was to show clients portrait photography locally. I'm not sure that was a good idea because of the viewing angles. Also, I don't want to put them on the spot. So, I probably would have done well to just save the money and print contact sheets.