X1 Carbon Gen 6 WQHD upgrade success

[plympton]

I've been eyeing a new ThinkPad for a while now that they're 16x10, and even tried an Intel Carbon Gen 10 w/ OLED - and returned it (hated the screen & battery life).

I've had several Carbon gen 6 - even one on the shelf as a full spare. Even today, 5 years later, I can still used it as a daily driver, even locking it to battery saver mode when unplugged and it doesn't feel sluggish.

On a whim, I looked into upgrading the screen on mine daily driver, and found a direct replacement for the standard WQHD screen I had in mine (low contrast, 60 hz) for a nice matte 120 hz display... and it's beautiful! So glad I did this - 120 hz really changes the overall reading / motion blur experience, reduced eyestrain, etc.

Here's the part number: TL140BDXP01-00 ASUS 2560*1440 EDP 40 Pins LCD Screen. It's from an Asus ROG Zephyrus g14 2021. It's a matte screen (yeah!), too.

Here's a Reddit thread I started with a bit more info: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comme ... ?context=3

[mikemex]

What about consumption / battery life?

[plympton]

Hasn't seemed to affect it much. Haven't measured it, but anecdotally it's not much difference. The OLED from a Carbon Gen 10, for example, you could almost watch the % go down in realtime.

[RealBlackStuff]

Specs: https://www.panelook.com/TL140BDXP01_Ti ... 56579.html

[plympton]

Just an update to this. I had a single side-effect for this upgrade: During boot, and for a few seconds after login, the screen would get really garbled. I ignored it, because it always went away quickly.

Then, recently, it was happening all the time. The only time it WASN'T happening was when I was moving the mouse pointer. Which was a bit of a pain in the butt, so I needed a solution. I poked around, and there were clues that Panel Self Refresh was causing it. So, I went into the Intel Control Panel, and toggled that, and it immediately went away.

https://imgur.com/a/yIUJOWM

I just tried to reproduce it to make a screenshot of the effect by enabling PSR, and it apparently re-enabled itself??

Computers...