Chinese display specialist BOE has shown off a laptop with a 500Hz 27-inch desktop .
While not exactly a household name, BOE is in fact one of the world's largest manufacturers of display s. Its LCD s are used by a wide array of desktop monitor and laptop manufacturers. If you own a laptop from one of the big boys like Dell or HP, there's a good chance it has a BOE .
Anyway, there's no release date for the 600Hz 16-inch and, for now, further specs such as resolution, brightness and response remain a mystery. What we can say is that 600Hz means a new frame rendered every 1.67ms. That's a lot of frames.
Of course, the immediate question is just how relevant such a would be in the real world, especially in a laptop. It's hard enough to think of a desktop GPU that's going to be kicking out the required 600fps in modern games, let alone a laptop chip. Even if such GPUs existed, it's likewise debatable whether the difference between, say, 480Hz and 600Hz is something that the human eye and reflexes can actually appreciate.
Arguably of more interest will be the response time of such a fast LCD . While IPS s with claimed response times of 1ms are now common, that measure is typically for the grey-to-grey rise/fall time, which only covers part of the s' true pixel transition time. For an LCD to truly deliver 600Hz, it will likely need to come much closer to delivering genuine 1ms performance.
BOE also showed off a number of further new s at the event, including a new 34-inch 165Hz mini-LED ultra-wide model and a 17.3-inch folding OLED .
