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Apple Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that Apple plans to release a MacBook with an OLED display before the end of 2024, suggesting that the change could allow for "more diverse" form factor designs.
Utilizing OLED displays would allow for thinner and lighter MacBooks compared to their current mini-LED counterparts, Kuo explained via Twitter.
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— (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) January 11, 2023
Compared to mini-LED, laptops that use OLEDs have the advantage of being thinner and lighter and offering more diverse form factor design options, like folding, so it has caused Apple to plan to ship the OLED MacBook by the end of 2024 at the earliest.
While Kuo didn't mention which MacBook model would be the first with OLED, analyst Ross Young said in June that Apple would release a 13-inch OLED MacBook Air by 2024.
On Tuesday, it was learned that Apple may be planning to release an Apple Watch that features a micro LED display of its own design in the coming years.
Apple would then likely provide screens for its other devices.
As with Apple Silicon, the switch to in-house designed displays would help cut the tech giant's reliance on partners.
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Makes zero sense to me because:
1. Apple has already implemented "mini" LED on various MacBook displays.
2. Apple is moving away from OLED on the Apple Watch in order to implement "micro" LED.
Therefore, it seems only logical to implement "micro" LED at some point on a MBP display, not OLED!
If they could put MicroLED in a watch, then they could put it in a MBP, MicroLED is superior to OLED in terms of brightness, longevity and efficiency; all while sporting the same properties of being self-emitting and having good contrast ratios. OLEDs would be a concern as they would begin to degrade overtime with use [Blue and red sub pixels have the shortest lifespan], which would result in diminished display brightness and color inaccuracies; not to mention the concern of burn-in with static elements in the UI.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t OLED screens burn? Is this really smart for a computer?
I’m a bit shocked by this. I Wild have thought they’d be moving the direction of microLED.
Can we just skip all this OLED nonsense and get straight to putting microLED in everything? It’s superior to OLED in every conceivable way and has zero of the drawbacks.