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I'm using an OLED Thinkpad X1 Yoga as my primary laptop, and I was afraid of burnin, though almost two years in I have not had any problems. Admittedly, I was
by Ayyar 8y ago
I'm using an OLED Thinkpad X1 Yoga as my primary laptop, and I was afraid of burnin, though almost two years in I have not had any problems.
Admittedly, I was very concious of the burnin issue from day zero and have the screen setup to hide toolbars etc off the screen. I always go into full screen mode with the terminal.
The colors are gorgeous and I feel such a raw sense of visceral delight when using the OLED screen.
At least at the two year mark, I see no problems. Separately I've had an OLED TV for 4 years and I have seen no burnin problems there either.
I have wanted to switch to a newer laptop but I dread going back to a non OLED screen.
This is a great development, and if the choice is between me being a bit more concious of tweaking software settings to go fullscreen and hide toolbars vs. amazing colors, that's a limitation I'm willing to deal with.
- oosjc9a5 8y agoHaving to micromanage what you do so you don't burn in the screen seems like an endless source of anxiety for someone like me. No thank you.
- DennisP 8y agoMaybe it'd help to modify a window manager, to very slowly change the position of things on screen. This would be especially effective with a tiling WM in dark mode, so there aren't any large areas of lit pixels. There'd be some details to work out, like making sure you don't trigger word wrap changes. One approach would be to leave a little border on at least one of the screen, so you can move everything together horizontally without changing window widths. In the vertical direction maybe you can get away with changing relative window sizes slightly. (On the other hand, if you're mainly using text in dark mode, maybe your fancy OLED screen isn't benefiting you much.)