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Apple's OLED MacBook Pro Launch Moves Closer With Panel Production

I'm so sick of Apple prioritizing thinness and weight over more performance and battery life. If that's what I wanted, I would go with the MacBook Air. The Pro line can be thicker and heavier than the current generation and most pro users would prioritize performance and battery over physical characteristics.
 
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Hajj.david said:
Look at a current mac's screen do you see how thin it is at the top? Web cam hardware will not fit in it
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The benefit of having a <0.2mm bezel: You can point at it at random people at Starbucks and say "look at how thin this bezel is!"

The benefit of having a >2mm bezel: You can actually add useful functionality that will help you the other 99.99% of the time.
 
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H.E. Pennypacker said:
The current mini LED screens are already outstanding. On a 14” or 16” display, at normal viewing distance, the OLED wow factor mostly disappears into diminishing returns. This isn’t a living room TV it’s a laptop. Unless you’re pixel peeping HDR video in a dark room, most daily use (email docs browsing) won’t look meaningfully different. In fact, those static UI elements are where OLED has real downsides. Feels less like a must have upgrade and more like Apple needing something new to market.
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Exactly.

To address something, usually when you see someone complaining about the Mini-LED screen, they are talking about slow response times and/or blooming. This is because more people own an M1-M3 MBP rather an an M4 version.

With M4, Quantum Dot technology was introduced to the screen which significantly decreases response time (as mentioned by BlurBusters, the leading website in screen response time measurement and creators of the UFO test), as well as less blooming and more vibrant colours. As a result, the current Mini-LED panel is very close to OLED.
 
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Eidorian said:
My bigger concern is text readability over burn-in.
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Not sure where you live, but surely there is a Best Buy or similar store close to you. Go look at the myriad of 3K 120Hz Windows laptops and you'll see clarity is just fine. Apple's "retina" displays aren't even that high res compared to other laptop screens anymore. My latest laptop, an Asus Zenbook S 16 with 3K 120Hz touch OLED was just under $600 open box ($1500 normally). OLED is definitely the way forward -- there are plenty of things Apple can do to minimize burn-in as do Windows laptop makers with OLED.
 
at this point I wonder if we are just waiting on a simultaneous launch and the m6 ‘touch’ MBP represents a new tier in the Mac book pro line
 
chmania said:
Samsung Display announced the commencement of mass production of the world’s first OLED displays for laptops, featuring a high refresh rate of 240Hz, on 7th June 2022. The new panel made its debut in MSI’s latest 15.6-inch gaming laptop, the Raider GE67 HX, raising the bar in the fiercely competitive gaming market for high-performance displays.

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  • This screen is a single layer OLED panel which limits brightness and increases screen burn-in risk. Apple is rumored to be using a tandem OLED panel similar to the iPad Pro, which offers increased brightness, less power consumption, and better longevity.
  • This screen is QHD resolution (1440p).
  • This display uses QD-OLED technology meaning the OLED panel is all white with a quantum dot color filter which reduces actual brightness and can lead to inaccurate colors at max brightness. Apple's screen will (likely) be an RGB OLED panel, again similar to the iPhone and iPad, which offers superior brightness and color accuracy.
 
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zifty said:
I'm so sick of Apple prioritizing thinness and weight over more performance and battery life. If that's what I wanted, I would go with the MacBook Air. The Pro line can be thicker and heavier than the current generation and most pro users would prioritize performance and battery over physical characteristics.
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These are laptops designed to be portable and moved around. If they can keep the performance and battery life and make it thinner and lighter then they absolutely should.
 
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H.E. Pennypacker said:
The current mini LED screens are already outstanding. On a 14” or 16” display, at normal viewing distance, the OLED wow factor mostly disappears into diminishing returns. This isn’t a living room TV it’s a laptop. Unless you’re pixel peeping HDR video in a dark room, most daily use (email docs browsing) won’t look meaningfully different. In fact, those static UI elements are where OLED has real downsides. Feels less like a must have upgrade and more like Apple needing something new to market.
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Man , im completely happy with mini LED, Apple calibration algorithms is perfect. I love miniLED so much
 
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SilmarilFinder said:
I love OLED screens on TVs, but I still have big reservations on computers, mainly cost and burn-in. Apple loves static UI elements, and that menu bar is basically permanent. A beautifully menu bar burned into a £3,000 laptop sounds like a fantastic idea.

As for touchscreens, I have been using touchscreen PCs as work machines for years and, if you get the right hardware, it is genuinely great. I still do not believe Apple has needed to avoid touch for this long. If they actually commit and do it properly, I would absolutely love a touchscreen MacBook.
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macOS has had the ability to automatically hide and reveal the menu bar and dock, it has to be activated in system settings. When apps are full screen as well it can auto-hide. Samsung for instance also addresses this by dimming static elements. In 2025 onwards burn-in is not a major concern. Your iPhone has the time, mobile and wifi signal plus battery displaying constantly and I have yet to hear that the OLED screen on iPhones demonstrate a burn-in issue on mass (might be a small number due to defective panels but not mass).

macOS menu bar has also been transparent for a while not and LG also helps in less brighter elements staying active onscreen for too long.
 
In general it will be the stupid move to go to the touch screen with MBP… Why would you do it when you have the best track pads in the world … WTF ….

And over all it is NOT practical at all
 
rappr said:
Why would stockholders care? OLED displays aren’t that premium anymore.
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Boost in sales. Many customers are eyeing OLED as their laptops have also become an entertainment hub plus gaming advantageous aspects. More sales equates to potential higher stock price.
 
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