Is FHD (1920x1080) Screen enough for Photo and Video editing?

[Iam_JamalHussein]

Hi Guys. I want to buy a new laptop for photo editing and video editing. I have some good options lined up. The laptop I am leaning towards is Lenovo Ideapad Y700 because it is within my price range. But the screen resolution is 1920x1080. I understand that 4k displays have more pixels than fhd and tend to produce sharper images. But I want to know if the fhd will be enough for me. Does the 1920x1080 screen have any limitation or drawback? Is there something I can't do with fhd laptops that I can do with 4k displays? Also I understand colors seen on some screens is not the same as the colors that appears on prints? Are the colors seen on 1920x1080 screens similar to what I'll see in prints? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

1920 x 1080 will be fine. People have been using 1920 x 1080 screens for years. It's long been the standard for 23" desktop monitors.

4K on a laptop is stretching it. Cramming 3840 x 2160 pixels into a laptop screen means those pixels will be incredibly small - and everything displayed with them equally small.

As for colors, all displays need to be calibrated and profiled to display accurately. If you do that the right way, you can get a good screen to print match. But that's a big subject in itself.

Don't expect stellar performance from any laptop displays. There's good and bad, but a desktop monitor is in a different league.

[Iam_JamalHussein]

Thank you. Your response has been very helpful.

[davescm]

Hi

It will work fine - I use three 22" 1080 x 1920 displays on my main desktop.

As D.Fosse pointed out, colour accuracy / predictability comes from calibration and profiling. In my view it would be better to spend a little extra on hardware and software to calibrate the display rather than spend it on a higher pixel resolution but then run it without calibration.

Dave

[Iam_JamalHussein]

Thank you sir