Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 OLED vs. IPS - A difficult decision

[Redaktion]

Lenovo offers its high-end business laptop ThinkPad x1 Carbon Gen 14 with IPS as well as OLED panels. This does not only change the image quality, but also battery runtimes, the thickness of the chassis as well as the weight. This is a bit of an issue, because the differences are not small.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-14-OLED-vs-IPS-A-difficult-decision.1352249.0.html

[SmoothOperator]

Agree, IPS 3K, 120Hz belong in a business laptop.
My Gen 14 has 2.8K touch OLED, because a full HD 60HZ LCD variant doesn't deserve even to be an option on a laptop in a such price category in 2022 not to mention 2026.
I can't understand how Lenovo manages to sell such garbage displays.
My Surface Book 2 from 2017, has a better 3K display with better 3:2 ratio.
Fortunately for Lenovo MS droped the Book/Studio models.
From all bad laptops X1 Carbon Gen 14 seems like a less bad one.
Asus was always a joke, wouldn't use it for free.

[MJ's Smooth Criminal rox]

My Surface Book 2 from 2017, has a better 3K display with better 3:2 ratio.

My MB Air (15) also has a better display and I like that it's glossy, because without matte oil coating, the colors are better, the text is sharper and there are not issues such as IPS glow.

That said, if an OLED display adds another couple of 100 bucks on top and its power consumption is higher than IPS' (due to current OLED tech being less efficient (PHOLED will help with that)), then maybe not and maybe use a sharper IPS instead. A 3:2 ratio would also be better.