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

CATiNTHESTORE said:
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
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Freeform, handwriting apps that can be used directly on the display vice trackpad. More sales and uses for Apple Pencil Pro. Why limit oneself to a limited iPadOS when you can have the key feature on your laptop now. The display will probably have the ability for more stable angles when interacting with it compared to what it is now.

If this happens, I would suspect the iPad Pro’s days are numbered.
 
DocMultimedia said:
Delayed until mid 2027. You know how it goes.
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I wonder if this is going to be an iPad 2 and iPad 3 with Retina display issue. M5 has not even been put into the non-entry level MBP. If Apple updates the rest of the line with M5 in spring and M6 with OLED in autumn that would be a very short update window.
 
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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I am not sure if this is true, I mean we have OLED on iPhones and the iPad Pro and many people say their notice the difference. I am guessing on a laptop screen which is viewed at approximately the same distance but larger screen, it will be noticeable.
 
code-m said:
How many of these are Tandem OLED (TOLED)?
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Apple typically has some amusing brand names for their products... the iPhone has one, and the iPads have another for those AMOLED displays. ;)

And with the upcoming OLED MacBook, Apple will have another amusing name to describe the display for their flock.
 
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chmania said:
Apple typically has some amusing brand names for their products... the iPhone has one, and the iPads have another for those AMOLED displays. ;)

And with the upcoming OLED MacBook, Apple will have another amusing name to describe the display for their flock.
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I didn’t know iPhone has TOLED. I am aware that iPad Pro does hence the big mention.
 
chmania said:
Apple typically has some amusing brand names for their products... the iPhone has one, and the iPads have another for those AMOLED displays. ;)

And with the upcoming OLED MacBook, Apple will have another amusing name to describe the display for their flock.
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Yes, I'm typing right now on macOS, looking at the "liquid cursor pro max". 😂

My keyboard benefits from the "neural engine".

:p

Tech products need a little meter on the front of them these days, like this:

1725763013303
 
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switz said:
Remember this is all "vaporware" now so do not get too excited. There are more misses than bullseye results.
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Apple is like Forrest Gump, a bit on the catching-up side, you never know what you are going to get and generally has good intentions. The catching-up is marketed as taking time to refine 😝
 
code-m said:
I didn’t know iPhone has TOLED. I am aware that iPad Pro does hence the big mention.
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You know, "Super Retina XDR," "Promotion, "Ultra Retina Tandem OLED" and so on...there'd be no end to such amusing names..."Magic" keyboard that doesn't even have backlight and so on...
 
Mac Fly (film) said:
Punch-hole cam isn't necessary. There are surely cams on the market that would be good enough that can fit in the bezel. Panel isn't thick, but it's 2026. Time to stop message around. Heck, by now they should have a MBP with camera and Face ID in the bezel up there (no notch, no punch). No need to wait for under-display Face ID that's been coming for years, and years.
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If it fits entirely inside the menu bar it will be fine.
 
turbineseaplane said:
My keyboard benefits from the "neural engine".

:p
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Apple confuses their flock with terms like 'neural engine,' who actually believes that the Apple silicon chips are capable of neural actions?

Neural refers exclusively to the complex, living biological systems of brains and nervous systems, which are composed of organic neurons. These biological systems facilitate genuine consciousness, intuition, and subjective experience, which cannot be replicated entirely in machines today, or ever. Machines or silicon chips (or Siri) will never become biological living systems.
 
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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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More like Apple would love to force you into having to buy a new laptop in <5-years time. Screen burn-in is the the mother of all planned obsolecence.
 
Jaziry said:
Firstly, the way anybody touching the laptop screen while we already have a trackpad or mouse is stupid. And I hate fingerprints on the display except maybe my iPhone's since it's inevitable.
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I mostly agree, but there is a use case for a touch screen laptop IF the laptop screen folds back on itself and can be used with an Apple Pencil in tablet mode.
 
Super cool as long as it’s a huge improvement I’m down. I hope they don’t hold back just so every year they can make tiny improvements to it.
 
WLSON said:
More like Apple would love to force you into having to buy a new laptop in <5-years time. Screen burn-in is the the mother of all planned obsolecence.
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They are doing planned obsolescence in a variety of ways.

If that's going to be the plan, I'd just as soon use gorgeous OLED panels along the way.
 
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