Any experience with T540 3K IPS display?

Is the ultra high resolution absolutely unpractical for everyday tasks, such as surfing the web and using office apps and the display is only good for watching movie and photography?

 

Well...

It's a nice panel indeed. With that said, I'm not happy with the scaling ability of the Windows OS.

If you can use it at its native resolution - get it by all means - presuming that you're OK with the rest of the machine to begin with.

An excellent and thorough review of the T540p with the aforementioned screen:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/lenovo/741049-my-t540p-review.html

Good luck.

 

I had no problems when surfing the web with Firefox and 150% scaling. The amount of space on the screen equaled that of a Full HD monitor. Text was of course much sharper than on a FHD screen. While Windows scaling may work just fine, it doesn't really do much apart from, well, scaling things up. Nothing fancy like OSX offers. This means anything that is vector based will look OK, but everything else (including pictures like avatars on forums) will become pixelated to some extent.

Programs that do not support vector based scaling (because their interface is not made of vector graphics) will look horrible and sometimes be unusable due to either blurry or ridiculously tiny text. You will need to check beforehand whether the software that you work with supports scaling under Windows.

 

I have it and just change the windows resolution to 1920x1080 (effectively 150% scaling for all text and graphics). It works great like that. A touch blurry on the smallest text, but otherwise great. Plenty bright, great colors, wide viewing angle, nice antireflective coating. I'm very happy with it.