My Thinkpad p50 came stock with a terrible BOE display that I despise, the colours are awful and the backlight is worse. I know you can swap it out for less crappy displays, I'm just wondering if there's any reason that this Samsung OLED panel (the only one I could find on panelook with the seemingly correct specs) wouldn't work. If anyone could double check this before I blow like $250CAD on a display that'd be super.

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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    10 months ago

    All of the specs seem to match up. Shape style, pin type, panel size, resolution, interface position. All of it, aside from the eDP 1.4b vs 1.2. I can't really seem to find any info on backwards compatibility for eDP.

    I guess that these things are kind of intentionally opaque as they're not consumer standards.

    Unfortunately, you're right that It'll almost certainly be a no-go even though there's theoretically no reason it shouldn't work. Backwards compatibility won't let you use a newer display, and the only way that people have found that out is to just buy stuff and plug it in. Guess I'll just learn from others' failures.

    • Yurt_Owl
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      10 months ago

      There is basically no info since eDP is a closed spec but since its in laptops and laptops have no real need for backwards or forwards compat I'd say a strong no.

      Some odd forums hint at a compatibility between 1.3 and 1.4 but from really odd sources. https://community.frame.work/t/framework-laptop-alternative-screens/17290/14

      I'd strongly suggest just getting a compatible IPS but its up to you.