Future MacBooks Said to Adopt Brighter OLED Displays That Consume Less Battery Life

[shareef777]

What the hell Apple! My laptop hasn't even shipped yet and it's outdated! /s

 

[Shlooky]

I think the title is not correct...
"
Future MacBooks Said to Adopt Brighter OLED Displays That Consume Less Battery Life"

I think it should be...

Future MacBooks Said to Adopt Brighter OLED Displays That Consume Less Battery Power"

 

[Traverse]

Its a portable device. For some people (me included) thinner and lighter is better.

But to what end?

Thin is not supposed to be the primary objective of the Pro. People who want the thinnest laptop get the MacBook, people who want a portable workstation get a Pro. I absolutely want thin, but thin should come after meeting specific performance targets.

 

[scoobs69]

Yeah, but it gets 4-5 hours battery life. It's the worst on the market for it.

Yes, but if you leave your laptop plugged in, it doesn't matter.

The beauty of the laptop - it's powerful enough to be a primary workstation for the majority of jobs out there - and not just accounts type work, but a big portion of the creative industry. The two things I would LOVE to have in my current laptop - a 4GB video card and 32GB of ram. This new MBP plugs one need/want.

 

[Bacillus]

From the desk of Tim Cook:
"Apple is getting out of the laptop business......"

These agnosts have to be removed as soon as possible - before its too late.

 

[Val-kyrie]

The non-touch model has nearly half the resolution of the retina MacBook Pro though and from the benchmarks i've seen, still doesn't get double digit battery life.

That's because Apple reduced the battery capacity by 20-25%.

I love it. It's the sort of rumors that start the good 'ol "should I switch now or wait for the OLED macbook pro" rumors!

Fixed that for you.

 

[MICHAELSD]

If the MacBook Pro doesn't get OLED displays soon I'll skip a generation and move to a MacBook if it becomes snappy enough to not constantly feel underpowered.

 

[sober2ndthought]

4 years later:

Look it a new Macbook Pro, while PC manufactures save battery life with new technology, we do so by limiting your memory to 8 gb. Isn't it magical. It some how costs another $500

 

[Swazaloo]

Pretty sure you missed the point. That as soon as an Apple product comes out, all the rumors of what will be in the next one start popping up. As if to say - you don't like this one? Just wait until you see what's coming next...

Ahh I see. Thank you.

 

[Joseph Rash]

I will look forward to the update in 3 years.

Aaaaah how about 4 years

 

[techortreat]

Guess I am still wondering what the big deal is about a touch-bar.
What's better - an entire screen that is touch-enabled or just small bar that is?
Isn't it better from an user experience perspective also for the user to have the controls on the screen itself rather than having to look at the touch-bar and also the screen?

 

[BvizioN]

But to what end?

Thin is not supposed to be the primary objective of the Pro. People who want the thinnest laptop get the MacBook, people who want a portable workstation get a Pro. I absolutely want thin, but thin should come after meeting specific performance targets.

Macbook is not what I want. Macbook Pro is more powerful and better overall and what's even better, it is thinner and lighter. Thanks Apple.,

 

[1000]

Prediction: MacBook Pros in the future will be magical.

As will the prices I suspect

 

[DrumApple]

Who's "leaking" this intel, Apple? To do some damage control?

 

[Jim Lahey]

OLED as a technology is superior to LEDLCD in almost every measurable way. Obviously there are good and bad, but I think we can be fairly comfortable that Apple won't ship a bad one.

This is a future update that I'm very excited for.

 

[Low country]

From the desk of Tim Cook:
"Apple is getting out of the laptop business......"

Did Tim Cook say that? If he did he's off to a fine start...

 

[VeryVito]

So what's Apple gonna DO with all that extra battery advantage?? That's right -- make the battery smaller and the case even THINNER!!! Screw you and your "performance" requirements.

 

[Ramius]

This is almost too easy. Next Macbooks will be:
1. Oled screens
2. 32 gb ram
3. Touchbar across all devices.
4. Everybody screams yohoo.

 

[dannys1]

Let's me guess,, until Apple who have no amoled experience DO IT RIGHT !! Because Samsung, the world's premier amoled OEM don't really know what they are doing eh? Have I missed owt?

I'm actually talking more about the TV technology - you know the important OLED advancements are being made on big displays not handheld ones. The monitor will use OLED not Amoled anyway, LG is the leader here and they get better every year, but they still haven't got it right. Panasonic improved the same LG panel drastically so I'm hoping Apple would take similar measures if they implement it in a MacBook screen.

To be honest though, no I don't like the Samsung screen even in the latest ones still have the issues I said, but its across all OLED based displays including the TVs at the minute, until someone gets those black levels correct, i'm not going to like it.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Yeah. Those pesky infinite blacks and their stupid photon absorbtions. WTF.

Black is black. Crushed black is either a bad display or bad calibration.

 

[rtr1985]

TL;DR - MacBooks will be upgraded in the future.

 

[Ries]

Yeah. Those pesky infinite blacks and their stupid photon absorbtions. WTF.

Black is black. Crushed black is either a bad display or bad calibration.

Black is not black.

This is black (vanta black), it is almost so black, it makes black look blacker on the screen.

 

[Jim Lahey]

It was sarcasm.

 

[nylon]

The new MBP's really do feel like an interim update. Next year should really correct that.

 

[Roobun]

they probably won't update it for another 2 years.