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simplex panel is TL142GDXP02 (1.07B, 8-bit + Hi-FRC) - https://www.panelook.com/TL142GDXP02-0_Tianma_14.2_LCM_parameter_55360.html
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz 3.11 GHz
simplex panel is TL142GDXP02 (1.07B, 8-bit + Hi-FRC) - https://www.panelook.com/TL142GDXP02-0_Tianma_14.2_LCM_parameter_55360.html
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz 3.11 GHz
I can confirm roughly the same feeling for the recently bought ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 GU603ZU-N4013 with the following matrix (also Tianma):
Tianma TL160ADMP03-0 (IPS/LTPS-LCD WXUGA 2560x1600 240Hz DCI-P3 100%) (panel review)
* the laptop itself is different, but has the same panel installed
Unfortunately, I cannot find the matrix on the panelook so if anyone knows other sites to pick up its characteristics I will be grateful. The display itself as branded as ROG Nebula Display (note "Display" and not "HDR", it's an important distinction).
I decided to keep this laptop as a result. At least I can work on this thing without desire shut it down and go for a walk after 30 minutes (as it was with with BOE NV156FHM-N6E). I already tried working the full day on it without signnificant interruptions and so far it's been ok (not great! but just ok). I have been owning it for about 2 weeks.
The settings I found work best for me:
What's good:
What's no so good:
Verdict: I am keeping this laptop for now. Will continue searching for an ideal option, and will sell this if I found one (it's not an ideal by any means, but good enough in comparison to some other IPS options).
Andreiid it's been turned off from the beginning for me. btw I've been using dGPU mostly. But last two days I checked on Intel iGPU just out of curiosity. My settings are all default, plus I turned off panel self refresh and all other power saving panel options. Also decreased contrast in color section from 17 to 12. Forced 8-bit. G-Sync disabled. Ditherig tool launched just in case, however I do not see much difference with or without it. To me the experience on iGPU is roughly the same as on dGPU, so can copy-paste my observations above for the Intel iGPU as well. Oh one more thing I debloated my zephyrus laptop by removing asus bloatware using armoury crate uninstall tool and switched to ghelper. not sure if that's important.
Powersavings, contrast, brightness…
Brightness varies, I can comfortable work even at 30% (in the evening) and around 70 during the day, cause I do not have much natural light in the room.
Night light - off
HDR - off
Scale - 200%
Resolution - 2520 x 1680
Color space - Standard Dynamic range (SDR)
Refresh rate - 90Hz
Intel graphic center settings:
Color format - RGB
Color depth - BPC_8
Brightness enhancement - All colors, 38%
Red intensity - 38, Green intensity - 38, Blue - 38
Contrast enhancement - all at 17
Hue - 0
Saturation - 50
Gamma 2.2 (not adjustable)
Graphic driver - 31.0.101.5382
Would you be able to measure the pixel flicker from pixel inversion and/or temporal dithering using a cheap microscope of your display? A lot of folks here are concerned and interested in temporal dithering and I have recorded many videos of pixel flicker using the Carson MicroFlip scope and a 240fps slow motion phone camera. Perhaps setting color depth to 8 bit might have removed or reduced the pixel flickering but it is ideal to have empirical evidence of this.
photon78s to measure the pixel flicker from pixel inversion and/or temporal dithering
I can show you vids:
the last one is very noisy and FRC detection is very problematic
simplex it is brighter, I think it is 400 nits and my previous MTB 2015 was 300 nits. I never keep it at 100% while MTB was very comfortable at 100% and at any level basically. This one is also ok at any level of brightness. Mine old MTB is still waiting to be recovered, but I think Matebook's white is different, but it could be because I never keep it 100%, because it looks more grayish I guess, my new Air has more of a blue tint to it that kills me. But overall, the display is more or less the same as my old MTB. May be I can post a photo after I recover my old laptop to compare.
photon78s it would be interesting to do, but I'm somewhat on the move, traveling from one place to another and this is one of the reason why I can't return mine new Air that I can't use. So if I get the microscope I can compare three laptops: matebook, my old MTB and new Air. But I'm not sure if that's something I can do anytime soon.