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Apple Supplier Unveils 'Industry First' Tandem OLED Laptop Panel
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I'm getting old, I read that as Tandy display and though WTH, Radio Shack has been out of business for a very long time.
60hz, meh. Would rather it not be tandem if it's a choice between that and 120hz+.
I think the benefits of the tandem OLED over traditional OLED are brightness and longevity. If tandem OLED are going to add substantial costs to use, then it becomes much less attractive because a) 500 nit OLED laptops are plenty bright for most people, and b) there are a plethora of beautiful 3K OLED laptops on the market that are half the price of a similarly configured MBP. If I can invest half as much now and keep it half as long then upgrade to the latest-greatest in a few years instead of keeping my uber-expensive MBP for 6 years, I think I might stick with the former.
I presume Dell skimped on the OLED to keep costs down (they seem to be in money-hoarding mode lately with everything priced like Apple). But who needs 1000+ nits unless you watch a lot of HDR movies (on a laptop? what's the point?) or do HDR video editing. Otherwise, it's just too bright.
Same issue I was experiencing. I had to return both the 13" and 11" M4 iPad. Luckily I was able to pickup a 12.9 M2 Pro at a great sale price. I loved the new iPads they just didn't like me.
Like someone else said, Apple prefers somewhat matured tech, but whats also important and people tend to forget is that Apple needs to equip gazillion of units with parts. Maybe Apple would like to put tandem oled panels in all their products today, but is LG able to produce a gazillion panels this year? Likely not. TSMC seems to be able to produce enough 3nm SoCs.
It also adds $500 to the price of the XPS laptop. No thanks.
Honestly, I've never found myself saying, "if only my display was brighter". They need to get on with base 16 GB of RAM in all Macs, and focus on adding more ports to Macs such as SD Card and HDMI on MBA, and an additional thunderbolt 4 for MBP—two for MBA, four for MBP. Port count, yes; port variety, no.
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Finally a reasoned response instead of knee-jerk negativity.
500 nits is fine for an M5 MacBook Air. It's not so fine for an M5 Max MacBook Pro, precisely because of HDR editing.
My mom (age 74) got the new iPad Pro M4 and she is loving the display. She wears glasses when using it, of course. But I haven't heard any complaints from her.... just said the display is much better than her iPad Pro from before (which I guess was about 4 or 5 years older). Anyway..... I'm really curious about people in this thread complaining that the display bothers them. I would imagine they tested it quite a lot before deciding to use it. I wonder how many % of people are bothered by the new display?
I’ll put your complaint in with those claiming their Watch burns their skin and WiFi gives them headaches. A tiny minority trying to dictate how something is built.
Apple could have put traditional 2.8K OLED panels in their MacBook Air series and no one would have complained (and most would say how great they look). They're cheap enough that Apple could have used them and NOT raised the price! And in the Air, no one is expecting "Pro" specs. Apple sticks with low-tech panels in the Air instead.
If you don’t already wear glasses, it might be a good idea to see an optometrist to make sure there is nothing wrong.
Here comes the 'Pro Display' option for the macbook add-on. But im excited to see this finally come to market.
Just what my new most beautiful MacBook screen ever needs! Fingerprints. (derogatory)
Agreed .. there are new Copilot+ laptops with OLEDs ... starting at like $1200
It's like -- c'mon Apple
Curious on your estimate of TOTAL MBP buyers, how many do HDR video editing? More than 50%? Because otherwise you're just overcharging most of your customers by including tech that is for just a very small minority (who, TBH, probably use larger Pro monitors).
It's way past time for Apple to offer panel upgrade options
I'm really surprised they haven't as it seems like something Tim would love (more components to upcharge for)
An MBA with an OLED would be my combo of choice
To be fair, Dell is screwing people by making them upgrade to 32GB RAM to get OLED (like somehow, RAM is tied to display tech?), so the $500 covers both, but the fact they do that at all is another Dell money-grubbing tactic (and I thought Apple had the crown for that!).Sounds like it'll add $1k to the MacBooks in that case
Why?
"It's Apple"
Well, the Tandy is vintage, but Radio Shack is very much in business here in the US! They even sell and install Starlink, which for folks in the mountains here, is the only fast Internet access available.
Yeah, that's crummy
Reasonable "value" at $500 for both of those compared to Apple at least
Dell aspires to be Apple by copying the upgrade pricing screw jobs where able
How can Tim possibly beat his $400 upcharge for 16GB RAM in the MBA? Yeah, yeah...Magical Unicorn (I mean Unified) memory...fancy talk for something that isn't that magical and probably costs far less than adding chips to board since it's part of the manufacture of the SoC.