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by q3k 2113 days ago
Very happy with my T14 (AMD) IPS 1920x1080 display. Some might dislike that it's not High DPI, but personally that's not a feature I want.
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Full HD for 14 inch display is not great. And unless you get the privacy guard screen it's also not a bright screen.

Tbh I would jump to any high res oled 13 inch laptop almost instantly. Screen is one of the most important parts for me.

1080p on 14" is high DPI. It's just not 250+ DPI high.
Colloquially, “high DPI” has a fairly specific meaning: it means “designed to be used with a scaling factor of at least 2 (and definitely uncomfortable to use below a scaling factor of 1.5)”. 1920×1080 on 14″ does not meet this definition.

And when it’s capitalised, High DPI, as it was in the parent comment, it’s definitely referring to this definition.

Back in the days when 1366×768 and 1280×800 were common sorts of resolutions and 1920×1080 was the highest available (that is, before Apple’s Retina displays), perhaps you could have said 1920×1080 was “high DPI”, but people didn’t use the term “high DPI” back then. And certainly not “High DPI”.

I understand it is good for programming. Can it handle video editing? I am trying to decide between T14 and P1, which is almost twice the price as T14.

Any review will be helpful.

Do you need more performance benchmarks? Here's my experiences on Linux (NixOS).

I've done some light Blender work on it and it handled things just fine. Haven't tried GPU acceleration for Cycles, though.

If I bump up thermal limits to 95 degrees then it compiles things at similar speeds to my old i7-6700k machine, if not slightly faster. At stock 60 degrees it's still pretty damn fast, but aggressively throttles if you try to use all cores at once for more than a few seconds. At stock thermal limits it also never gets too uncomfortable to handle.

The GPU is good but not great. Satisfactory via Proton struggled (but got to 50FPS on low settings), older games like Portal 2 run great on ultra settings. amdgpu works pretty well, or at least not worse than amdgpu on my desktop.

Overall, it's a good replacement for my old workstation, can handle some non-trivial video/GPU workloads, and I recommend it. There's some things that need to be ironed out (ACPI S3 sleep is currently somewhat broken, but Lenovo is currently working on certifying this machine with Ubuntu, so that should fix things), but that's mostly because it's such a new CPU/Laptop.

Thank you. I really want a AMD laptop, but they don't seem to have good displays. If I am to stare at the screen 10+ hours a day, I'd like a good screen.

Do you like the display?

Yes.

But I also really dislike some displays that some people love, like Macbook displays. So, you know, de gustibus.

I want one, but lenovo still has a screen lottery with their 400 nit low power screen.
250 to 500 nits. That is not very bright and this is the potential problem for me.
250 is not bright, but 500 sure is.
My ThinkPad E495 has 500nit FHD IPS display. It's enough for most place but it's not enough bright for very bright place. It's not looks like 500nit.
I'm on 300 and it's definitely bright enough for my needs - so your mileage may vary.
500 is a lie, since that panel has an extra layer for their stupid privacy guard.