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I like it too, the screen is poor though
by pingec 8y ago
I like it too, the screen is poor though
- mbrumlow 8y agoPoor how? I have a nice IPS in x220 and it looks amazing!
- initself 8y agoToo bright! Just not the old school matte thing somehow.
- tokai 8y ago16:9 for a work machine is a bad choice, and the resolution is horrible.
- floatboth 8y agoUnfortunately most things are 16:9. Some MacBooks are 16:10, and Surfaces are 3:2 which is really cool, but 16:9 still dominates :(
- tokai 8y agoTell me about it. I still rock my old cracked x220. Most new alternatives (that I'm willing to pay for) would give a much worse keyboard, in exchange for an only slightly better screen.
- robin_reala 8y agoAll MacBooks apart from the old (and sadly missed) 11" are 16:10.
- eropple 8y agoPeople say this, but it honestly doesn't bother me in a laptop. Longer and thinner is easier to carry in a backpack and if I'm actually working it'll be docked and with external monitors, one of which is rotated to 9:16.
- 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago> 16:9 for a work machine is a bad choice, and the resolution is horrible. I found a way to turn 16:9 into an advantage: if you go for 70-character columns, you can get a 3-column display in a tiling WM or Emacs if your resolution is 1280 or more pixels horizontally (there are 5-pixel wide fonts out there, but none of them are very legible).
- post_break 8y agoI have an IPS in an X230 and it Ghosts really bad.
- elagost 8y agoMy X220 does the exact same thing. Usually pretty fine though, but definitely noticeable, multiple times a week. I keep my display timeout pretty low and have a blank screen for the lock screen (slock, i3lock, swaylock).
- ThinkBad 8y agoThis screen revision?
- post_break 8y agoThe stock, not the 1080p one. I actually had the pepe and 1080p but sold them after getting cold feet.
- watersb 8y agoSame here. Don't game on it, or watch video, so it is a great machine for most of my programming needs.
- ce4 8y agoThere's a project to upgrade the X220 to a 1920x1080 panel: https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/6wnmqd/x220x230_fhd_mod_kit_batch3_is_almost_ready_for/ https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/6wnmqd/x220x230_f...
- TomVDB 8y agoMy X220, bought for $110 on eBay, came with a horrible TN LCD panel. Cost me around $70(?) to replace it with an IPS panel.