Apple to Launch 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro Models With More Power-Efficient Displays This Year, Claims Report

[R2DHue]

Rumor sites needs ad revenue.

Only persons interested with anything Apple would click on it.

If Samsung came out with a Galaxy I wouldn't click on it but an angry Android nerd will click on any competing Apple product.

True that.

”Apple Bigotry” began the second the Apple ][ came out and “democratized” computing for the masses — not just the nerds. 🤓 (They’ve never forgiven Apple and now history repeats itself with iOS/Android. True déjà vu.)

I’m pretty sure that in the annals of online history, the now broad Internet term “troll” was invented by the Mac/Apple community to identify insecure Windows users who’d lurk in Mac/Apple forums only to try to irritate Mac users with intellectual statements like, “MACS SUUUUUCK!” and “APPLE SUUUUUCKS!” (Too insecure about their chosen computing platform plus too much time on their hands…)

(I say “online history,” not Internet history because, pre-WWW, it could be in Bulletin Boards, Chat Rooms, or on AOL, CompuServe, etc.)

But I just got a call from Bill Gates saying he knows what I’m typing and that he invented the term troll, and that he invented everything and the computer and the Graphical User Interface and the lightbulb, and that he was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic, so…

 

[applesed]

It would still be a brickkkkkk.

 

[Dydegu]

Just bought a new 16” MBP a few months ago.

So this rumor is likely to be true.

 

[R2DHue]

Just bought a new 16” MBP a few months ago.

So this rumor is likely to be true.

Welp, at least you didn’t fall into the “forever waiting” game. Enjoy your MBP.

 

[corinthos]

All of your brand spanking new Macbooks are now obsolete!

 

[sammich]

It's counterintuitive because they say "brighter, but not really", as if, according to your analogy, the engine has more power but the car isn't any faster. If they meant more efficient, they should have said more efficient.

Brightness and efficiency (or power and efficiency) really have nothing to do with each other, since you can always increase brightness by just pumping more power through the chips -- this makes them LESS efficient at the higher brightness and doesn't affect efficiency at lower brightness at all. Alternatively, if the LEDs are more efficient, then they could theoretically be brighter at the same power draw or lower power draw at the same brightness, assuming the output curves don't cross. This is what they meant, but they should have said it this way.

Seems like there was a stealth edit to the article. You can see the original phrasing in the post following my original one

It's counterintuitive because they say "brighter, but not really", as if, according to your analogy, the engine has more power but the car isn't any faster. If they meant more efficient, they should have said more efficient.

Brightness and efficiency (or power and efficiency) really have nothing to do with each other, since you can always increase brightness by just pumping more power through the chips -- this makes them LESS efficient at the higher brightness and doesn't affect efficiency at lower brightness at all. Alternatively, if the LEDs are more efficient, then they could theoretically be brighter at the same power draw or lower power draw at the same brightness, assuming the output curves don't cross. This is what they meant, but they should have said it this way.

The article was updated. See my original comment for an update. I should've quoted in the first place but I was on mobile at the time.

 

[macsforme]

How about some MacBook displays that don’t burn the eyes and cause headaches and vertigo? I could go for one of those…

I’m starting to wonder if the eye strain people are having is due to these “power-saving” features…

 

[AppleFanBoyForever]

Why make the switch to OLED? I thought mini led was the “bomb” until micro led was ready for prime time.

 

[svish]

More power efficient displays and maybe better battery life will be good. But highly doubt whether it will be released this year.

 

[dannys1]

Who says this will be a new MBP model? It could just be a component switch under the hood of the existing model - plenty of manufacturers do this. In fact, Apple did this with the 3rd gen AppleTV when they updated the SoC with a new version - both were A5 chips, but made on different nodes.

To be fair, for something so minor as this, yes you're right, they could.

 

[antonrg]

And here I am, looking to get the M2 Pro… speaking of that, would you go for M2 Pro at 16GB RAM or M2 Air with 24 GB?

 

[The Game 161]

not this year they won't.

2024 mid i think is possible. no need to update earlier than each year there's no difference aside from small power increase.

 

[Khriz]

MBPs have been updated 30 times since 2007. The most common month for updates is October (8 out of 30). If I were to put my money on any Month it would be October.

 

[nortonandreev]

Seems like this rumour was true.