The Verge and most other reviewers simply run the tests with the display at some percent brightness - I forget what the Verge uses, but I think it's 50% or 65%.
This is a fairly useless metric. Since different displays have a different max brightness (and perhaps even different brightness curves, I feel like the "percents" aren't always linear), testing at a certain brightness value is the only way to go.
Thankfully AnandTech uses 200 nits for all laptops so we can actually compare these numbers.
This is a fairly useless metric. Since different displays have a different max brightness (and perhaps even different brightness curves, I feel like the "percents" aren't always linear), testing at a certain brightness value is the only way to go.
Thankfully AnandTech uses 200 nits for all laptops so we can actually compare these numbers.