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2024 iPad Pro to Use LCD Panel Instead of OLED or Mini-LED, Claims Sketchy Report
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They're businesses and not adolecents who hate their parents.
iPhone 15 & 15 Pro abandoning the Lightning connector is a sign they're grown ups.
Holy carp.. this is 2023 and Apple still uses the old LCD tech for their expensive iPad Pros? Come on, OLED has been on iPhone for 6 years, and on the Watch for 8 years now. Time to move on with self emitting display!
I've had OLED TV for 2 years now. Nothing compares with true blackness and infinite contrast. Not even 12.9" miniLED can render the same effect, especially for HDR contents. And you know what most people use iPads for? Content consumption! 😒
I've had OLED TV for 2 years now. Nothing compares with true blackness and infinite contrast. Not even 12.9" miniLED can render the same effect, especially for HDR contents. And you know what most people use iPads for? Content consumption! 😒
a Highly unlikely rumour 🤣
Apple's next-generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro will revert to an LCD display instead of adopting OLED panel technology, claims a controversial new report coming out of Asia.
It has been widely reported that Apple's next iPad Pro models will be the first Apple tablets to debut superior OLED panels, with rumors suggesting they will begin shipping around the middle of next year. That's not necessarily the case, according to a confusing new DigiTimes report.
The Taiwan-based outlet now claims Apple will in fact revert to using LCD backlighting for its upcoming 12.9-inch iPad Pro model, putting it on par with the existing 11-inch model.
The current 12.9-inch iPad Pro features a mini-LED display that Apple calls a "Liquid Retina XDR display," while the 11-inch variant uses an inferior LCD-based "Liquid Retina Display."
The report alleges that the high production cost of using mini-LED backlights in the 12.9-inch iPad Pro has been a "hurdle for broader industry adoption," and that Apple's pivot back to conventional backlight technology "could be motivated by the company's focus on scalability and market penetration."
As a result of the component changes, production of the new 12.9-inch iPads could be postponed to "early 2024 at the latest," having originally been slated to start in "early November," adds DigiTimes.
Several things don't add up in this latest report. As covered previously by MacRumors, DigiTimes on Thursday alluded to the same report in its "Before Going to Press" section by claiming that a forthcoming 12.9-inch iPad Air may feature LCD backlighting as opposed to the mini-LED backlighting used in the current 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
However, the fully published report no longer mentions this alleged larger "12.9-inch iPad Air," and simply makes a passing reference to "a new iPad Air" that will also use traditional LCD backlighting like the next iPad Pro.
To add to the confusion, the full article appears to contradict itself by repeating widely reported claims that "Apple might launch a new iPad Pro with AMOLED displays earliest in 2024, sourcing mainly from Samsung Display and LG Display." Whether the OLED model is meant to be in addition to the alleged 12.9-inch iPad Pro with LCD display previously mentioned is simply not specified.
Leaving aside the inconsistencies in the above claims, if the next 12.9-inch iPad Pro reverted from mini-LED to traditional LCD panel technology, it would be considered a major regression for Apple's most premium tablet offering, especially given that OLED display technology is perhaps the most anticipated upgrade coming to the next-generation iPad Pro models.
Given the contradictions in DigiTimes' reporting, not to mention its history for misinterpreting supply chain information, this claim alone should be taken with a large grain of salt until other sources can corroborate it.
Article Link: 2024 iPad Pro to Use LCD Panel Instead of OLED or Mini-LED, Claims Sketchy Report
I'm still skeptical about using OLED in production devices or ones catering towards text editing and reading. PWM is already a pain to my eyes and judging by reviews, testimonials and my own experience, OLED tech I nowhere near ready for office use, and that's how I mainly use my Pro - as an ad hoc business device.
Please just release the new ipad pros. my 2018 ipad pro is dying. Same with my 2015 imac. I need apple to release the bigger imac/imac pro
Here's a rumour;
Apple's next-generation 12.9-inch iPad Pro will revert to an LCD display instead of adopting OLED panel technology, claims a controversial new report coming out of Asia.
It has been widely reported that Apple's next iPad Pro models will be the first Apple tablets to debut superior OLED panels, with rumors suggesting they will begin shipping around the middle of next year. That's not necessarily the case, according to a confusing new DigiTimes report.
The Taiwan-based outlet now claims Apple will in fact revert to using LCD backlighting for its upcoming 12.9-inch iPad Pro model, putting it on par with the existing 11-inch model.
The current 12.9-inch iPad Pro features a mini-LED display that Apple calls a "Liquid Retina XDR display," while the 11-inch variant uses an inferior LCD-based "Liquid Retina Display."
The report alleges that the high production cost of using mini-LED backlights in the 12.9-inch iPad Pro has been a "hurdle for broader industry adoption," and that Apple's pivot back to conventional backlight technology "could be motivated by the company's focus on scalability and market penetration."
As a result of the component changes, production of the new 12.9-inch iPads could be postponed to "early 2024 at the latest," having originally been slated to start in "early November," adds DigiTimes.
Several things don't add up in this latest report. As covered previously by MacRumors, DigiTimes on Thursday alluded to the same report in its "Before Going to Press" section by claiming that a forthcoming 12.9-inch iPad Air may feature LCD backlighting as opposed to the mini-LED backlighting used in the current 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
However, the fully published report no longer mentions this alleged larger "12.9-inch iPad Air," and simply makes a passing reference to "a new iPad Air" that will also use traditional LCD backlighting like the next iPad Pro.
To add to the confusion, the full article appears to contradict itself by repeating widely reported claims that "Apple might launch a new iPad Pro with AMOLED displays earliest in 2024, sourcing mainly from Samsung Display and LG Display." Whether the OLED model is meant to be in addition to the alleged 12.9-inch iPad Pro with LCD display previously mentioned is simply not specified.
Leaving aside the inconsistencies in the above claims, if the next 12.9-inch iPad Pro reverted from mini-LED to traditional LCD panel technology, it would be considered a major regression for Apple's most premium tablet offering, especially given that OLED display technology is perhaps the most anticipated upgrade coming to the next-generation iPad Pro models.
Given the contradictions in DigiTimes' reporting, not to mention its history for misinterpreting supply chain information, this claim alone should be taken with a large grain of salt until other sources can corroborate it.
Article Link: 2024 iPad Pro to Use LCD Panel Instead of OLED or Mini-LED, Claims Sketchy Report
Apple will launch a new iPad Ultra, it will be bigger, will have an Oled display and it will have both iPadOS & MacOS when connected to a magic key board.
That's the only logical step to re invigorate the iPad sales, because at the moment it's only usefulness is to an artist and people who use the pencil a lot
MacBooks are for people who are into quality, reliability, longevity, value for money & devises that "just work"
I would suggest that's not just a few individual cases 😊
Correct about the blackness and contrast. But you know what else does not compare to OLED?
How little light in a room it takes to effectively wash out the OLED image. If your TV is in a dark environment it looks phenomenal. If not, it’s a struggle to watch sometimes. OLED simply does not generate as much light as other technology.
Some of us use Pros for content creation. I don't see how OLED in it's current form could fulfill both office and graphic design/drawing use cases - persistent UI elements, eye fatigue, color accuracy...
Also - consuming TV shows and movies on a letterboxed screen doesn't seem comfortable at all. Unless it's your only device.
Nope. They haven’t. They abandoned Lightning because Apple tried to make Lightning faster because pros wanted faster IO for video transfers and encoding but they ultimately hit a brick wall. Apple had no choice but to wave the white flag and switched to USB-C (and eventually will upgrade Thunderbolt on pro lineup in the future.)
Apple’s been working on this change long before the EU mandate.
The company will not give up on glued battery. They won’t compromise device size, period.
The obsession from some consumers for OLED baffles me. Why has "deep blacks" and candy colours become the priority over everything else? Sure I like my OLED TV for console gaming and films (which I view from a distance in a relaxed state), but not on my computing devices where I have to deal with alot of text + graphics, which I stare at intensely.
I've also noticed my jumbo OLED TV generates a lot of heat, likely because it's razor thin. How is going to be going to be a good thing in a thin iPad body?
You can keep your flickering OLED and miniLED Apple (Samsung).
I've also noticed my jumbo OLED TV generates a lot of heat, likely because it's razor thin. How is going to be going to be a good thing in a thin iPad body?
You can keep your flickering OLED and miniLED Apple (Samsung).
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It doesn't matter what they do with it. It's still gimped with iPadOS and still completely and utterly pointless.
The article's confusing use of "LCD backlighting" comes from the Digitimes Asia English article. When I click to the original Chinese article, the wording specifically says "the 12.9" will revert back to the original edge lit LED for traditional LCD panels" (that the 12.9" models used before M1 gen)
I could see it, if indeed manufacturing problems are making it too expensive. That would also explain why it never expanded to the 11”. It might be a transitory feature like Force Touch.
I think the rumor about a new 12.9" iPad Air got confused with the rumor about the next iPad Pro.
The OLED iPhone Pro now goes up to 2000 nits, while the iPad Pro still only goes up to 1000 nits, so I don’t know about that.
I use an OLED tablet for reading and wouldn’t want to go back to LCD. The OLED blacks just provide much better contrast.
Also, OLED doesn’t have candy colors. A properly calibrated display simply shows the correct colors.
I think they should keep the existing lineup, and add a new iPad lineup featuring OLED. Name it something catchy like
LiquiMax iPad RetinaPro UltraProMax Edition 14.
To go with the lineup, introduce a new pencil in multiple colors that only works with the OLED screens, except it can also work with some other iPad models, but with some features missing.
Then just keep the existing lineup, but ditch USB-C entirely and move to wireless charging only. People with existing Gen3 pencils can charge them with their existing chargers, unless the chargers are lightning.
LiquiMax iPad RetinaPro UltraProMax Edition 14.
To go with the lineup, introduce a new pencil in multiple colors that only works with the OLED screens, except it can also work with some other iPad models, but with some features missing.
Then just keep the existing lineup, but ditch USB-C entirely and move to wireless charging only. People with existing Gen3 pencils can charge them with their existing chargers, unless the chargers are lightning.
"while the 11-inch variant uses an inferior LCD-based "Liquid Retina Display."
I don't agree this this comment. I have owned 2 11" models and the displays are much better quality than other tablets on the market. It would be nice if they stated using the same Mini-LED technology in the 11" like they do in the larger 12.9 inch model.
I don't agree this this comment. I have owned 2 11" models and the displays are much better quality than other tablets on the market. It would be nice if they stated using the same Mini-LED technology in the 11" like they do in the larger 12.9 inch model.