Apple Suppliers Preparing for First OLED iPad in 2024, Followed by OLED MacBook

[EugW]

Wait, do there will be a micrOLED technology?

It's microLED, but don't expect real world Apple microLED products for many, many years.

OLED is already "micro".

 

[rid]

Well, we know OLED is nothing new in terms of technology, and it’s a slow adoption for Apple, but I do think it’s a significant change that will probably be welcomed by many, although there is a segment of people that suffer from PWM [Pulse Width Modulation] they probably won’t look forward to OLED for that very reason.

This. If the MacBook will be anything like the OLED iPhones, it will be completely unusable for me and others who have issues with PWM.

We'll have to get the latest non-OLED MacBooks and brace for a few years until the OLED fad passes. I used my 2012 MacBook Air for 10 years and the new Macs are over 8 times faster, so it's not all bad.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Backlight problems, dead pixels, etc those issues aside as far as image quality ie Color accuracy, Apple hands down always had the best

OLED was in phones for years before Apple finally dived in, and they pushed the envelope unlike any others and then everyone had to catch on

So if we’re talking about developing the perfect display image quality wise Apple is extra careful, as far as manufacturing issues the small number that happen is a different argument

Yeah there's no argument from me with regard to image quality. Never had cause to complain.

 

[Pezimak]

Because big OLED are very expensive to make, and they are much more difficult to match the brightness of smaller OLED panels.

Yoir comment makes little sense, what has the cost of a big OLED got to do with anything? Hasn’t stopped TV manufactures pushing the tech forward, what do you consider large? 14”? And what’s a small OLED panel? You need context.

 

[svish]

Looks like the Pro lineup of iPad will have some changes in the future. Next refresh might be only in 2022 with mini LED for 11”. The refresh following this could bring OLED for iPad Pro. Still a long time to go so a lot could change in between.

 

[0924487]

Yoir comment makes little sense, what has the cost of a big OLED got to do with anything? Hasn’t stopped TV manufactures pushing the tech forward, what do you consider large? 14”? And what’s a small OLED panel? You need context.

There are three variables, size, brightness, and affordability.

Pick two.

 

[Pezimak]

There are three variables, size, brightness, and affordability.

Pick two.

Again your comment makes little sense? Pick 2? Why?

 

[dmw7]

So all we Mini Led Macbook owners will be left to fend for ourselves like orphans then?
Apple needs to avoid releasing such premium products with stop-gap technologies.

This reminds me of the time I bought that cursed iPad 3 in March 2012.

“The New iPad“

what were they thinking?

 

[0924487]

Again your comment makes little sense? Pick 2? Why?

That’s the trade-offs Engineers have to make.

For example, being fat and having big boobs, they go hand and hand, but you only want one of them.

 

[bkkcanuck8]

Boring, a rumour that is constantly recycled - probably going on 5 years now... next year, this year, the year after that - x device will get OLED... OLED and mini-LED each have their drawbacks, but mini-LED is what Apple has invested in and to be quite honest - in many ways for my use it is the best option. There has been discussions of blooming, but I have only seen evidence for it when you do something visual that is not what you would normally display (like a white dot with a big black box around the background).

 

[EugW]

There has been discussions of blooming, but I have only seen evidence for it when you do something visual that is not what you would normally display (like a white dot with a big black box around the background).

Subtitles on night scenes

 

[bkkcanuck8]

Yoir comment makes little sense, what has the cost of a big OLED got to do with anything? Hasn’t stopped TV manufactures pushing the tech forward, what do you consider large? 14”? And what’s a small OLED panel? You need context.

Hard to tell if it makes little sense, Apple always chooses panels that are around 225ppi.... a OLED TV panel (40") is around 8K is 220ppi. The question is what does a quality 16" OLED at 225ppi cost (even then it would not have the brightness of a miniLED panel). Peak brightness of a MacBook or iPad Pro screen is 1600 nits with sustained at 1000 for HDR content... the very best OLED can only reach around 800 nits... There are trade-offs -- each has it's strengths and weaknesses.