I plan on getting the Lenovo ThinkPad X9-15 Gen 1 Aura Edition. I’ve heard that on this laptop (because it’s OLED), I should turn on “Automatically hide the taskbar” to prevent burn-in (since it’s a static piece of the display). Is this really necessary, or will the built-in Lenovo Vantage features (like Pixel Refresh, Pixel Shifting, Logo/Background Dimming, auto turning off display after X minutes, etc.) suffice? Advice from someone who’s actually had an OLED laptop for years is extra appreciated.
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Modern laptops have built in tools that prevent OLED burn in. I think you should be fine.
As Nemusdark said previously, OLED burn-in is pretty much thing of a past compared to what it was in 2020, since most major laptop brands implemented some kind of tools, that prevents the screen from burning in, like ASUS did on my Vivobook S 14 Zen 5 model here with it’s MyASUS utility, but it should be in Lenovo Vantage as well.
As long as the screen doesn’t display static content (like working on spreadsheets, programming, etc) for long period of time at a high brightness (80% and above), you should be alright. I have it set to about 60% when I’m using at home my Vivobook S 14 with the 2880x1800 120 Hz panel, and it’s good enough for me.
I personally have a web browser window opened with tabs showcased at the bottom of the screen (where the hidden task bar covers that portion, when it’s exposed), and after a year of use with a 50/50 between screen on and off time, I didn’t see a burn-in mark in a display yet. Most screen off time was during video encoding to a different codec with relatively aggressive AV1 efficiency, yet slow encoding times though.