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Comment by hackerfromthefu

4 years ago

Check Thinkpad screens carefully as a lot of the new amd ones come with terrible 'business class' screens that I don't want to use as a developer, let alone as a designer .. and a repairman told me they are glued on these days so you can no longer swap them as you used to be able to.

Can confirm. I made the mistake of buying a T14s with a Ryzen 4000 CPU in it

The screen was something like 30% color accurate

Using something like F.Lux or Redshift to shift the color space at night resulted in...this

Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhLBx4mmPrM

Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgjqeDF9c50

Lenovo refused to replace the panel with a less atrocious SKU, claiming I could instead purchase it for a "mere" $600 USD(!)

Thankfully Australia has strong consumer protection laws and I was able to get the unit returned and refunded