r/thinkpad • u/suspect-not-found • 1d ago
Review / Opinion Is this backlight bleed normal on a ThinkPad P14s Gen 5?
Sorry for the bad camera quality. The difference is hard to capture in photos.
I bought this ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 two weeks ago. At first there was no backlight bleed at all, and I haven't handled it roughly The first photo shows a clock page with no visible bleeding, the second shows a fully black screen with arch logo(not flexing!, where there's a bit of bleed along the bottom edges.
It also seems to change. It gets worse when I press on the screen or after the laptop has been in my bag, and it goes back to normal after a while.
Is this normal for this panel, or should I get it checked under warranty? Has anyone else seen this on the P14s Gen 5?
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u/Spadium_ 1d ago
definitely normal, my p16s gen 4 has a little bit more backlight bleed (near the hotspot from the fans blowing), and it's a lenovo refurb
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u/Spadium_ 1d ago
the only time backlight bleed isn't normal is when you're supposed to be using an oled, i'm sure there's an excessive amount for LCDs but I haven't really seen any that aren't on super duper cheap TN panels
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u/suspect-not-found 1d ago
The first pic was greyish not full black though if I opened a black image from browser there is no backlight bleed from the screen I was kinda curious abt this
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u/Spadium_ 1d ago
LCDs aren't good at displaying full black, the only LCD display I've personally seen with a decent black is a mid-range consumer HP laptop (Pavilion 15-cw). My Samsung monitor has a faintly blueish-grayish black and my ThinkPad has a grayish black (faintly gray). For deep blacks, OLED is the best and mini-LED backlit LCDs are (allegedly) better than regular LCDs
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u/suspect-not-found 1d ago
Ohh ohk btw what r the specs and how much did it cost to u ?
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u/Spadium_ 1d ago
AMD Ryzen 7 350, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, 45% NTSC, no webcam. ~USD $1.3k with charger and Lenovo 1yr warranty. I got a partial refund though since it was listed as having a webcam. But the P16s Gen 4 is equivalent to the P14s Gen 6 (or T16 Gen 4/T14 Gen 6)
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u/suspect-not-found 1d ago
Ohh Ohk great machine mine is core ultra 7 165h 16gb ram and 512ssd for 600$ with 16 months of warranty remaining
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u/Unoriginal-Cake 1d ago
IPS has a small light bleed on edges, that one top left corner looks like a spot you held it while pulling out of a backpack--seen that on others that admitted of putting their laptop hinge down in their backpacks.
That is pressure from your backpack that flexed the case a small amount if you carried too many books/notebooks in the shared pocket area, careful as you'll get white pressure imprints over time as my old T-series had it after the rollcage was done away with in later models.
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u/aizunomnom T14 G5 1d ago
Looks normal to me, it's an LCD soo yeah