I’ve got a Thinkpad T14 G1 stowed away, and that thing is pretty sweet… But being AMD powered, the best resolution it’s capable of is just 1920x1080, which drives me absolutely insane on a small 14" screen. My Spectre runs a much nicer 4K OLED touch display (which I can’t imagine helps with battery life).
I barely use the Spectre for gaming.
Edit: Honestly - after googling around a bit - if I can successfully install the missing SMD capacitors on the eDP connection, I will happily daily the Thinkpad.
I’ve got a Thinkpad T14 G1 stowed away, and that thing is pretty sweet… But being AMD powered, the best resolution it’s capable of is just 1920x1080, which drives me absolutely insane on a small 14" screen. My Spectre runs a much nicer 4K OLED touch display (which I can’t imagine helps with battery life).
I barely use the Spectre for gaming.
Edit: Honestly - after googling around a bit - if I can successfully install the missing SMD capacitors on the eDP connection, I will happily daily the Thinkpad.
1920x1080 seems pretty usable to me on a small screen but screen upgrades are fairly popular with old Thinkpads.
I vastly prefer 1440p at this point. The way I use my laptop, running at FHD just feels crowded.
That, and the fact that Lenovo artificially limited the display output of their AMD models to FHD is enough to make me mod it out of spite.
I just upgraded to 1440 on my desktop, that’s probably a factor in my perception lol