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Apple to Adopt Mini LED Display Tech in Future Macs and iPads [Updated]
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Ye can’t see them releasing another iMac this year. Sounds like a stand alone.
Be a big kick in the teeth to those who have just updated to 2019 iMacs.
Be a big kick in the teeth to those who have just updated to 2019 iMacs.
I can't see them releasing a redesigned iMac until Q4 2019 at the earliest. I'd like to think that it would launch alongside the new Mac Pro.
Then we can complain about why everything costs so much & order will be restored.
I just got my 2019 i9 iMac. Would I have liked a larger screen? Of course, but for how much? The system I got ran $3400... I'm sure that larger 6k monitor will add at least $1000 to the price.
That's a big chunk of change and not necessarily worth it for most people.
Must surely be the iMac Pro, or the display which wold complement the new Mac Pro.
I would love to have one, but... I'm sure the price tag will be closer to mars than the moon.
I would love to have one, but... I'm sure the price tag will be closer to mars than the moon.
Everyone has it wrong...
The 31.6" screen is for a foldable iPad Pro XS, folds down to a 15.8" tablet...!
The 31.6" screen is for a foldable iPad Pro XS, folds down to a 15.8" tablet...!
A welcome upgrade from 5400 rpm
Except this is mini LED, not micro LED. Will probably be a few years yet before micro LED is feasible. Mini LED has more in common with current display tech, in that the LEDs are still used for backlighting (there are just more of them), rather than every pixel being a LED.
--Eric
I wonder if (released in future) Mac Pro coexist alongside with iMac Pro.
They featured similar guts under their shell (xeon/ecc). Difference just Mac Pro is headless, and iMac Pro is AIO with built-in display.
Literally two xeon machine exist and would cannibalize each other, i think Apple should kill at least one of them to avoid line up confusion in future.
This will be awesome. I hope they use this tech for the 10th Anniversary of the iPad (for the iPad Pro 4 or X or whatever, lol.)
Apple will switch to mini LED backlighting for a raft of hardware coming over the next three years including a 31.6-inch iMac to be launched in the second or third quarter of 2019, reports DigiTimes this morning.
Today's DigiTimes report cites comments made by well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo to local media, a machine translation of which we covered on Monday. That report, which carried a warning of possible mistranslation, referred to a 31.6-inch 6K standalone display, but DigiTimes refers multiple times to an iMac with the same dimensions.
The report goes on to note that Apple is settling on mini LED technology for its wide color gamut, high contrast ratio, high dynamic range and local dimming.
More than 10,000 mini LEDs will be needed for the "10- to 12-inch iPad," according to the report, and these LEDs will be made by Epistar. Meanwhile, LCD panels will come from LG Display and BLUs by Radiant Opto-Electronics, and all three companies will form parts of the supply chain for the mini LED-backlit MacBook.
Article Link: Apple to Adopt Mini LED Display Tech in Future Macs and iPads, Starting With 31.6-inch iMac to Launch Later This Year
This display isn't going to be micro LED (mLED). The tech in the article is mini LED (backlighting). Not only that, according to the article, it's not even true mini LED: "Strictly speaking, this is a quasi-mini LED BLU because the chip size is much larger than those of standard mini LEDs, according to industry sources. However, the use of such a BLU will give opportunities for the supply chain to improve mini LED production in cost and yield rate, the sources noted."
I agree that mLED is the way forward. This ain't that.
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Apple will switch to mini LED backlighting for a raft of hardware coming over the next three years including a 31.6-inch iMac to be launched in the second or third quarter of 2019, reports DigiTimes this morning.
Today's DigiTimes report cites comments made by well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo to local media, a machine translation of which we covered on Monday. That report, which carried a warning of possible mistranslation, referred to a 31.6-inch 6K standalone display, but DigiTimes refers multiple times to an iMac with the same dimensions.
The report goes on to note that Apple is settling on mini LED technology for its wide color gamut, high contrast ratio, high dynamic range and local dimming.
More than 10,000 mini LEDs will be needed for the "10- to 12-inch iPad," according to the report, and these LEDs will be made by Epistar. Meanwhile, LCD panels will come from LG Display and BLUs by Radiant Opto-Electronics, and all three companies will form parts of the supply chain for the mini LED-backlit MacBook.
Article Link: Apple to Adopt Mini LED Display Tech in Future Macs and iPads, Starting With 31.6-inch iMac to Launch Later This Year
Hey MacRumors, this article is saying the exact same thing as the previous article regarding Kuo report on the Mini LED products timeframe. You SHOULD AMEND your misleading title on your previous article. In Chinese, Kuo never said there is delay of MacBook Pro and iPad until 2020 or 2021 in that article. You have mislead many readers.
Mini LED displays are pretty expensive.
It sounds cool, but yeah, I expect this to be very pricey.
There's also a lot of work to do on MacOS and HDR. And the first pass at that will probably be bad (Windows is awful).
It sounds cool, but yeah, I expect this to be very pricey.
There's also a lot of work to do on MacOS and HDR. And the first pass at that will probably be bad (Windows is awful).
Given the price of current/upcoming FALD displays I can’t even fathom how much the apple tax would add.
Yes… but no. At absolute best you're going to get an additional 2" out of the 27" sizing so to realistically exceed even a 28.5" display the iMac will need to get bigger. Personally I think the 27" is big enough as a display although sure, nice to have a redesigned and some removal of bezel. Plus, it would be silly to have the choice between 21.5" and then 31.6".
I'm more inclined to think its the size of a standalone display rather than an iMac.
