DigiTimes: MacBooks With Mini-LED Displays May Be Delayed Until 2022

[alpi123]

Unacceptable. How many years have these been delayed already?!

How many miniLED laptops can you name?

PS: There is only one in the market.

But let's not forget the fact DigiTimes is not one of the more reliable sources of information.

 

[DesignTime]

Have you been in a cave the last 12 months?

Putting the iPhone chip inside a MacBook Air case isn’t revolutionary.

 

[Serban55]

Didn’t they just start production of the M2 chip? It isn’t Apple to start production of an SoC literally a year ahead of time.

its just the mini-led in question here...not that the 14" and 16" will not come this year

 

[alternamelka]

I guess I can now I have enough time to save for like a 1TB ssd or something :’(

 

[calstanford]

This Mini LED crap is such unnecessary hype tech when perfectly fine OLED is available today

 

[TMRJIJ]

I’m confused. Does this mean we’re not getting a 14” MBP Redesign at all? I don’t really mind not having a mini LED Display, but I’ve been holding out for the M1X/M2 upgrade.

 

[anshuvorty]

This Mini LED crap is such unnecessary hype tech when perfectly fine OLED is available today

You want that burn in? Sure, go ahead…

 

[JPack]

Might be based on the COVID spike in Taiwan in the recent days. If things go on and a lockdown is ordered, Epistar might reduce output of mini LED wafers.

It’s obvious no MacBooks are being announced at WWDC, but hopefully they make it before the end of the year.

 

[Serban55]

This Mini LED crap is such unnecessary hype tech when perfectly fine OLED is available today

we dont want oled in our macOS devices

 

[UltimateSyn]

Gurman in January said the MBPs would be released “around the middle of the year” (so pretty early in the 2H 2021 window). 2022 would be an extremely long delay, especially considering that the mini-LED manufacturer reportedly just increased their yields to 95%. Not believing this one quite yet.

 

[jclardy]

This Mini LED crap is such unnecessary hype tech when perfectly fine OLED is available today

Perfectly fine for a phone, or a TV. Think about how you use your Mac - I have windows on my screen that literally never move, for 8 hours a day during work. That window will be burnt in within a few weeks...Mini/Micro LED displays don't suffer from easy burn-in.

 

[cww5336]

Hmm. I wonder if they’ll ship the 14”/16” redesigns with normal backlighting this year, or if they’ll just wait altogether.

This would put the 16” MBP at over two years without an upgrade, which is a crappy situation for their flagship Pro laptop.

I hope not, since they already established a a higher standard with the 12 inch iPad Pro with the mini-led screen then surly Apple wont downgrade the newly refresh MBP with old screens they are already using for years.

 

[prospervic]

From the article it seems that the mini LED display is the source of the problem. If so, Apple can still release redesigned MBPs with the M2 chip, but hold off on the new display technology until next year.

 

[UltimateSyn]

I hope not, since they already established a a higher standard with the 12 inch iPad Pro with the mini-led screen then surly Apple wont downgrade the newly refresh MBP with old screens they are already using for years.

My one counter here is that they established the higher standard of ProMotion in iPads three years ago which still to this day isn’t in any Mac. I was hoping for 120Hz mini-LED MBPs this year, though.

 

[cmaier]

I know people are waiting for the high end MacBooks with new screen technology and such, but a few things...

1) These machines will be expensive. A 14” MacBook Pro, presumably with a more powerful chip, new screen, starting at 16GB, will probably start at $1,699, maybe more. 16” may start at $2,000 or more

2) Aren’t both the M1 Macbook Air and M1 MacBook Pro in their current form more powerful than the MacBook Pro 16” is now?

3) If Apple can’t get the new models done this year they should just go with the M1 chip now for their 16 inch model, or introduce a new 16” model (in the current form factor) with the M2 chip concurrent with the iPhone release

yeah, just like the new 12.9” ipad pros got so much more expensive when they added a new screen technology and M1 chips just now.

Oh, wait.

 

[mozumder]

My guess is that this was the plan all along, to release a 16" MacBook Pro with M2 CPU and regular LED display first, then a mini-LED display as an upgraded version a year or 2 later.

I'm just hoping for 120Hz display on the first laptop. Don't really need HDR.

 

[CmdrLaForge]

I cannot see them delaying the Macbook Pro with Apple M1X for so long. I still expect them shortly

 

[anshuvorty]

My guess is that this was the plan all along, to release a 16" MacBook Pro with M2 CPU and regular LED display first, then a mini-LED display as an upgraded version a year or 2 later.

I'm just hoping for 120Hz display on the first laptop. Don't really need HDR.

Apple never released high frame rate displays in their Macs, I don’t think that will ever change. 60fps…

 

[jonbones]

life is suffering

 

[jerryk]

For sure from $2399 at least the 16" (with he custom gpu)

Yep. I cannot see the replacement 16" base with mini-LED and Mxx being cheaper than the current Intel 16". From Apple POV there is no reason to reduce the price since these are corporate standard units they sell a lot of at quantity discounts.

 

[UltimateSyn]

Putting the iPhone chip inside a MacBook Air case isn’t revolutionary.

You could have just said “Yes.”

 

[DesignTime]

You could have just said “Yes.”

Colorful iMacs from the 90s isn’t revolutionary either.

 

[chucker23n1]

2) Aren’t both the M1 Macbook Air and M1 MacBook Pro in their current form more powerful than the MacBook Pro 16” is now?

Not if you need things like more than 16 Gigs of RAM, more than two displays, eGPU, more than two Thunderbolt ports, etc.

3) If Apple can’t get the new models done this year they should just go with the M1 chip now for their 16 inch model, or introduce a new 16” model (in the current form factor) with the M2 chip concurrent with the iPhone release

Leaving aside that it's probably a bogus story (because, y'know, DigiTimes), my guess is the story here is only the displays aren't ready. I can't imagine them not updating the 16-inch MacBook Pro (last updates November 2019) for the entire year of 2021 over that. Just give it the old display and an M1X or M2.

 

[ophh1]

I think only the 16-inch will get mini LED display this year
Just like what Apple did to iPad Pro, only the large ones get the best stuff.

 

[Armada2]

Nooooooo I hope its not true ! Hmm decisions decisions, do I buy this year with just the M1x chip upgrade or wait till next year with M2 and new screen..