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    Does my y50-70 have an ips display?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Jonyface, May 16, 2015.

  1. Jonyface

    Jonyface Notebook Enthusiast

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    I recently bought a y50 straight from lenovo. It has the 4720hq processor and for some reason a 960m instead of the 860 as advertised.

    I heard lenovo ditched the crappy screen in the newer ones. How do I figure out what kind of screen mine has?

    Serial #: CB35508543
    Model Name: 20378
     
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    Look for off-angle wash out and color shift
     
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    The thing is ive only had 1 laptop before this and i never cared. I am not sure if i can catch it but moving my head side to side doesnt really do much to colour but it is a little different
     
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    Check the horizontal extremes as well.

    What about off-center vertically? Any color inversion looking up at it from an extreme angle after tilting the screen back as far as it goes?
     
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    The colours stay the same at the very extreme vertical angle but the view seems to look when moving it to that extreme, not so much when its there.
     
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    You have IPS
     
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    Yay, thanks for the help. :)
     
    Jonyface, May 16, 2015
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