[ltbarcly3]

My Thinkpad T490 has 210ppi and it's nothing special. Runs Debian like a champ (I am addicted to TrackPoint so I'm stuck with Lenovo these days). The picture quality on this laptop is far superior (contrast, color saturation, black levels) to my 16" MBP (the LCD panel on the 16" MBP is shameful, it is the worst Apple display I've had in 15 years. If you calibrate it so that colors aren't washed out it is so dark it's impossible to use. If it wasn't a work laptop I would sell it, but luckily I have a good external 4k monitor).

So I call shinanigans on what you are saying here.

That said, I'm staying with the T490 because the best generation AMD thinkpads aren't available with high resolution panels yet, so I will grant you that you have to be patient to get a good laptop display. OTOH, you are wrong about retina displays, they aren't uniformly good so you have to be selective there as well.