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This causes me pain. I really, really want an AMD Thinkpad, but NONE of them has a 2k or 4k display. I tested the FHD ones and I just can't bare it/feel alright dropping 1.3k€ on FHD in 2020. No sure what to do now :(

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I too want an AMD ThinkPad but none of the ones with the new Ryzens are 15". It sucks that they've decided to cripple their AMD line for no reason.

The IdeaPad S540-13ARE is spec'ed with a 2560x1600 screen: https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/IdeaPad/IdeaPad_S54013ARE

But seems very hard to find a place that actually sells it around here (Norway).

Yeah, but IdeaPad is not ThinkPad... I would only do education offers and the non ThinkPads don't come with 3 years of onsite premium support. The IdeaPad does come edu discounted tho.

While I agree, one plus is that some of the FHD displays are now extremely low power, with about 1-2W lower idle power consumption.

But I'm not sure why Lenovo doesn't make the low power display the baseline like HP did with their Spectre line.

On this note, I got the 500nit e-privacy display and it's "fine". I don't love it, it's not quite as good as it sounds, but it's "fine". Viewing angle with the "privacy" part off is still pretty terrible.

A 15" 1080p panel has the same pixel density as a 32" 4K panel.

But you sit closer to it so it needs to be sharper. The issue with 1080p at 14 inch is that 150% scaling has blurriness issues with bitmap graphics and 100% scaling is a bit too small and 200% scaling is a little bit too big for most people. Linux is also terrible at 150% scaling across the board. 1440p is the perfect trade-off at 200% between crispness and battery life and well-supported in linux, and while 4k at 300% is very crisp it is a massive power drain.

Apple and microsoft consistently ship displays between 200 and 250 dpi, the sweet spot for 200% scaling. It is frustrating that nobody else does this. I’m on the fence between replacing my 1080p thinkpad with another thinkpad or a macbook pro, and this is a major advantage for the mbp.

Windows has 125% scaling. Linux vendors should look into adding that. :)

KDE does scaling at any 6.25% interval (for technical reasons), which hits 125%, 150%, 175%, 200% and so on.

If you really want you can get the T14s and swap the panel, but it's expensive and a pain, especially on a brand new machine.

I keep an eye on that route. So far it hasn't been confirmed the AMD motherboards actually can connect to the high res displays.

I would love the X13 yoga 4k(?) oled version with AMD. That be my perfect machine as it has pen input too.

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