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Apple can be expected to announce 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models with OLED displays in 2024, according to display analyst Ross Young.

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In a tweet, Young said both models of the iPad Pro will come with OLED displays in the early half of 2024. The new M2 iPad Pro models announced yesterday include no display changes, including the lack of a mini-LED display on the smaller 11-inch model. Apple introduced a mini-LED display on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro in April 2021, and despite rumors it would also come to the 11-inch size, that did not happen.

Compared to mini-LED technology, the OLED displays Apple is reportedly planning to use will include a two-stack tandem structure, in which there are two red, green, and blue emission layers, allowing for increased brightness. OLED displays are also more power efficient, which could help extend battery life.

Article Link: iPad Pro With OLED Display Rumored for Launch in 2024
 
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Along with an M3 chip that the OS has absolutely no use for?

Ipad 12.9 is already £1249 in the UK for the base spec, adding OLED is going to bump it up even more. That is a lot of money for something where the OS is still too limiting to be a laptop replacement so is essentially still just a tablet.
 
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I would upgrade to an OLED screen if it were bright enough. It would have to at least match the HDR brightness of the current iPad Pros at 1000 nits, peak 1600 nits. Otherwise, I'm sticking with my mini-LED version.
 
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Not sure why that is taking forever! Is not that OLED display tech is not matured enough or something.
Actually it isn't, but it's getting close. The problem with OLED is brightness, or rather a lack of it. That is why Apple went mini-LED. If you look at the tablets or laptops that use OLED now with retina quality, they tend to top out at 400 nits, way too dim for Apple's requirements.

The problem with OLEDs that would meet Apple's brightness and pixel density requirements have a tendency to wrinkle. They are looking to Samsung and LG to perfect a different OLED technology that doesn't have that drawback. Until that happens, Apple's sticking with mini-LED. Note Samsung's own OLED tablets are very dim.
 
I am still holding on my 2018 11 inch iPad Pro. But its battery charge doesn't hold as well as before. Hoping it will last until the OLED iPad is here.
 
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