I mean, how many times does your Mac sit with the same image on the display? It's not often as displays usually turn off after a minute or so.
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Apple Reportedly Planning 13-Inch MacBook Air and iPad Pros With OLED Displays
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The Dock and menu bar is static for a long while.
Edit: OLED also has this issue with PWM which causes eye strain for some people.
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True. Although for me it is a none-issue as I usually full screen mode my main apps.
I doubt it will be regular OLED. Apple is 100% aware of the risks and if they're gonna use that technology on their macs, it most likely will be a custom panel or QD-OLED at least, which has drastically less chance of burn-in.
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Don’t you worry my friend. There’s a rumor that Apple will provide us with a special “anti burn-in cloth” for only 500 US dollars. We think you’re gonna love it! 🤡
Apple doesn't release a technology just because they can. They release it when it's up to their standards.
Samsung had OLED smartphone displays before Apple, but the iPhone X's OLED display was better than the peer Galaxy (even though both used OLEDs from Samsung Display) because Apple had higher standards than Samsung Electronics did.
So you can be confident that Apple's laptop OLEDs will be superior to the competition, even if they are sourced from the same supplier.
There are a number of burn-in mitigation technologies available to mitigate this. Apple could also decide to cover burn-in under AppleCare (like Alienware does with their new QD-OLED gaming monitor) to help address concerns.
Consumer Micro-LED in the size for laptop, tablet and phone displays is probably a decade away. Micro-LED modules are still measured in meters and priced in the tens of thousands of dollars which is why Micro-LED TVs are in the 100"-plus range with $100,000-plus price-tags.
OLED is excellent for video content consumption and I expect that is a common use case for Airs.
OLED and LCD can both have PWM, and both can be built without. Both are built with and without, depending on manufacturer and product line. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who have only encountered it via iPhones so think it is an OLED-only issue.
I fail to see how that's not what I said. The report says OLED will come to a MacBook Air. I said Apple's cheapest computer is the MacBook Air.
This is nice don’t get me wrong but even for the professionals how much difference does it really make when 98% of the audience for your product use standard screens to see which aren’t even uniform. Every screen on iPhones, iPad or MacBook are slightly off tint or/and white balance wise.
You might as well use the screen to create your work on the same type of screen your audience views it.
You might as well use the screen to create your work on the same type of screen your audience views it.
Gotcha, thanks for the clarification. I never heard of any complaints of PWM eye strain issues with LCD iPhones so probably OLED is more prone to that.
Copyrights can only be transferred, by law, in writing and when signed by the copyright owner. I'd hope he doesn't change his mind.
As long as PWM flicker remains, OLED is still inferior. I'll take a quality LCD from Apple any day over a headache-inducing OLED.
Don’t agree, OLED had many screen burn problems in early years but now they are pretty resilient to this. Also own a iPhone X for newly 5 years and has a OLED screen and not one problem with it no screen burn or anything. Apple would never use them if they had a chance of this
How to deal with burn-in issues? It will be a lot worse on computer than TV in nature.
It appears "increasingly likely" that Apple will launch a new 13-inch MacBook with an OLED display in 2024, according to display industry analyst Ross Young. In a tweet shared with his Super Followers today, Young said the notebook is expected to be a new MacBook Air, but he said there is a possibility it will have other branding.
Young, who has accurately revealed a range of display-related information for the iPhone 13 Pro, iPad mini, MacBook Pro, and other devices, also expects Apple to release new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models with OLED displays in 2024.
In another tweet shared with his Super Followers, Young said the OLED displays in all three new devices will adopt a two-stack tandem structure, in which there are two red, green, and blue emission layers, allowing for increased brightness and lower power consumption. OLED displays also do not require backlighting for further power efficiency.
Young said all of the devices will adopt LTPO display technology for a variable refresh rate between 1Hz and 120Hz, a feature that Apple calls ProMotion. All iPad Pro models released since 2017 already feature ProMotion, but the refresh rate can only drop as low as 24Hz, while ProMotion would be all new to the MacBook Air.
Apple is currently focused on transitioning its Mac and iPad lines to LCD displays with mini-LED backlighting, and OLED displays would be the next step. Unlike mini-LED displays, OLED panels use self-emitting pixels and do not require backlighting, which could improve contrast ratio and further contribute to longer battery life.
Article Link: Apple Reportedly Planning 13-Inch MacBook Air and iPad Pros With OLED Displays
It is not a matter of prone, it is if the manufacturer decides to do something about it. Apple are expensive devices, so they should not be using panels that have PWM.
LCD has been around a lot longer, so it is easier and cheaper to do something about PWM. I have had to return LCD monitors in the past because of PWM, but most are now flicker-free (i.e. don't have PWM). It was much worse than iPhones (I am OK with PWM on my iPhone 12 Mini, but don't use it for long periods like I do monitors).
Because you don’t leave a menu bar or task bar on screen for hours to days on phone.
The article says they are going for double stack OLED. Having it brighter as standard means they don't have to drive the pixels as hard, so helping. There are also multiple mitigation techniques that work well on TVs (although the dimming a fixed image technique on TVs is obviously not suited to computer screens).
Displays are expensive. Very expensive. Samsung can afford to put the latest and greatest in their own devices seeing as they manufacture them. Customers won't get the same internal cost - nowhere near in fact.