A friend is looking for a new laptop on a budget (about $800) and asked me to give an opinion on a possible choice. It was pretty average laptop, with an average display as well (or so I thought!): 1080p on 15.6", IPS and 144Hz refresh rate. Brightness was definitely on the low side (250 nits), but nothing particularly terrible. He ended up not buying the computer, but I later realized that the fine print of the display specs said "45% coverage of NTSC".
That's about 62% coverage of sRGB! What!? I genuinely didn't even know it was possible to purchase a new display with significantly less than 100% coverage of sRGB, much less a IPS and 144Hz one. But apparently that's something companies routinely do on cheap gaming laptops. I'm guessing the panel has been engineered to meet the buzzwords people look for (FullHD, 144Hz, IPS, slim borders...) and cheap out as much as possible on absolutely everything else (in case you're curious, this is likely the panel used).
Sharing because I was honestly surprised this was still a thing. I thought of sRGB as the minimum baseline for all displays manufactured on the last decade.
That's about 62% coverage of sRGB! What!? I genuinely didn't even know it was possible to purchase a new display with significantly less than 100% coverage of sRGB, much less a IPS and 144Hz one. But apparently that's something companies routinely do on cheap gaming laptops. I'm guessing the panel has been engineered to meet the buzzwords people look for (FullHD, 144Hz, IPS, slim borders...) and cheap out as much as possible on absolutely everything else (in case you're curious, this is likely the panel used).
Sharing because I was honestly surprised this was still a thing. I thought of sRGB as the minimum baseline for all displays manufactured on the last decade.