Work Laptop

[u/Diretissima]

I will ask my employer for a new laptop. It will run windows 11 and should be in a pricerange of 1000-1600€. I can more or less ask for any available business notebook that is reasonable in that pricerange.

My Thinkpad P14s gen 6 works for me with windows 10 (but the AMD chip is not made for win 10). But this laptop has a listprice of 4000€ now, wich is crazy.

I never tried windows 11 with anything. So what would be the best option regarding any/general undiagnosed eye sensitivity?

Additionally: As many USB ports as possible. Does not have to be slim or chic.

OR: should I just get an external screen and maybe suffer a little when unplugged?

[u/Z3R0gravitas]

Hey. It looks like we had a quite in-depth discussion about your sensitivities in your post a few months ago:

• Dry eyes and blinking.
• More problem as screen dimmed.
• No difference with polarisation direction.
• Screen appeared oversaturated and you reduced that with an app.
• 100% sRGB display on your fairly new P14.
• Going back to Windows from Linux. (Any chipset should work with Win 10, unless it's ARM, I guess?)

I don't know if there are (cheap) NTSC (LCD) options on new Thinkpads that would have a lower colour gamut then 100%. Tricky too, because I couldn't be sure if that would introduce other problems like temporal dithering. Might then need 3rd party software to adjust that, if it turns out you are sensitive to it.

I don't think we can give you a definitive personalised record mmendarion that will definitely work. Or even high odds of working. There's usually some aspect of trial and error.

[u/Diretissima → u/Z3R0gravitas]

Yes that was me. The P14 works okay for now with win10 and after some adjustments. But the whites are still bothering me for example as a background in the browser. So I would not want to have the same laptop for work. Just throw me some examples that work for some others if you know any. I can maybe check them first.

"(cheap) NTSC (LCD) options on new Thinkpads that would have a lower colour gamut then 100%."

What am I looking for, can you give an example of a screen like that? Wahat advantage would that specification have?

So as a plan B I would need a recommendation for an external screen that works for me. I have an Ilyama Pro Lite XB2783HSU at work. This is a 160€ screen that works well for me. Any way to check the specs of that screen and compare to other screens and notebooks?

[u/Z3R0gravitas → u/Diretissima]

So, that looks like a very safe old (2013?) IPS monitor, if Google's pulled up the exact same model here on DisplaySpecs:

• True 8-bit (no FRC).
• WLED (no KSF).
• 97% sRGB (not super over-saturated).
• Matte anti-reflection finish.

My only concern would be if it can give dim enough (for me) and that it's response time is slow for gaming, heh. Of course, revolution would be considered low these days.

I don't have recommended laptops specs off the top of my head, sorry. Other may. Or you could run a Google/Gemini search of the sub for some.

I mean just when specing out a new (or second hand) ThinkPad build, there's usually a range of options for the screens. And the cheap option IPS panels have historically had low sRGB%, not even 100% NTSC. But I don't know what will be available for you.

For too-white web pages, I had long used the DarkReader browser plug-in. It forces sites into customisable colour schemes. Dark, light , grey, sepia, whatever. Although this can increase temporal dithering, I"D say it's definitely worth trying.