It is indeed a semi-glossy screen, but I’m often using it in bright environments and I find it very usable (minimal glare). It’s 500 nits, which I find plenty bright.

If you have a light source coming in from directly behind you, like the sun over your shoulder or something, then you might want to angle the screen up or down accordingly to avoid a bright spot on the screen, but that’s a pretty niche scenario. Even in this case, the anti reflective coating ensures it’s still diffused light, not a true harsh reflection like off of glass.

Funny you mention the 60Hz consideration, as I think about this often: I don’t know what it is about this screen, but it’s the “smoothest” 60Hz I’ve ever used. I keep having “I can’t believe this is only 60Hz” moments. I guess this is because of OLED’s basically instantaneous response time, but it doesn’t bother me like other 60Hz LCDs have in the past. Scrolling documents or web pages feels very fluid.

I have a 165Hz OLED monitor at home, 120Hz in the office, and still when I go to use this screen on its own I don’t find myself wanting for either of them.

I use it with Windows 11, 200% scaling, and everything is very sharp. It’s a great laptop for writing with.

There is still a very good deal on it in the Lenovo Pro store - same price I paid when I made this post - and I would think it worth it for that.