The problem is years ago it was Kuo and Brain Tong on top of the assumption tree. Now it's full of other "HEY LOOK AT ME" like Kuo and Brain Tong,...... who is on youtube doing his thing. It's Nothing like he was years ago on Cnet. His Credibly is Nowhere where it was years ago. It's sad seeing in on Youtube doing his thing. Kuo the other hand is making the same assumptions with sites like this, where he gets fan-based fans. sad these days.
I only read the article and not his tweets so I am not sure where you got the bit about the MacBook lid thickness. Given that there is already some flex in the body of the Air, I see no reason why Apple would want to make that already super-thin device even thinner, especially with the form-over-function Ive no longer around. I also don't see why Apple would reduce the battery size once the OLED screen provides power savings, if anything I think they'd keep the same battery and then heavily market the several hours (or much more assuming 3nm chips by then) of increased battery life, easily 20+ hours.
I assumed lid thickness too since they mentioned the screen and the thickness of the device. I wouldn’t want a lid that is any thinner, there is already some flex with the current MBP.
That's what I was kind of wondering. Especially after I saw that he's billing himself as a "social media influencer."
I called him a fake when he claimed the iPhone 14 would stick with the same CPU as the 13 because it sounded ridiculous.
OLED provides far better contrast than LCD but, unless Apple improves its OLED dimming technology, this will not be a beneficial change for those sensitive to OLED flicker.
OLEDs can be dimmed with analog dimming (aka constant current reduction), but analog dimming's downsides include color shifts as the screen is dimmed, larger circuitry, and higher power consumption. Thus OLED screens are instead usually dimmed digitally by rapidly switching the pixels on and off. This is called pulse width modulation (PWM). The idea is that if you want 50% brightness, you rapidly switch the pixels on and off so that they illuminate the screen only 50% of the time.
The problem with PWM is that the frequency at which OLEDs can do this is not that high (often below 100 Hz, though it can go higher), and some can perceive this flickering and get headaches from it. The flicker becomes especially noticeable when the display is significantly dimmed. E.g., at 10% brightness, the display would have a duty cycle of 10% on and 90% off. That's why people using OLED devices at night are more likely to get eyestrain.
It would be nice if Apple gave consideration to this in making its MacBook Pro OLED screens, and either implements an improved analog dimmer, or chooses an OLED technology with a high PWM frequency. For instance, according to https://www.notebookcheck.net/PWM-R...del=1&screen_resolution=1&screen_panel_type=1 , OLED variants are available with PWM frequencies > 800 Hz (833 Hz for the AMOLED Lenovo Legion Phone Duel). However, it doesn't seem Apple cares about PWM flicker, since the iPhone 14's PWM frequency is only 60 Hz. [Would the 120 Hz frequency of the new displays mean the minimum PWM frequency would also be 120 Hz?]
The LED's used to backlight LCD screens also use PWM dimming. The difference is that their PWM frequency is much higher, which makes flicker far less noticeable (and typically imperceptible, even for sensitive viewers). For instance, according to the above link, the PWM frequency for the 14" & 16" M1 MacBook Pro LCD screens is 14,880 Hz.
See also:
Flicker, the display affliction
All screens flicker to some degree, but what causes it on smartphones in particular, and how does DXOMARK test for it?www.dxomark.com
Managing PWM on OLED iPhone & iPad Displays
Some iPhone and iPad users are sensitive to PWM flickering on the latest devices OLED displays. PWM, which stands for Pulse Width Modulation, can cause some users to have eye strain, feel nauseous …osxdaily.com
Totally agree. I love my LG OLED but computers show a ton of static imagery. I know software can come through and refresh this but I'd definitely rather wait for microLED on a computer display.
microLED would be the perfect solution, however Im sure it'll be outrageously expensive at first, and we still gotta wait.
microLED should be better than OLED.
Apple spent 5 years of R&D on miniLED because OLED was not ready. They've managed to ship it in 2 products (3 if you count both M1/M2 generations of iPad Pro). Likely we get one more with a MacBook Pro refresh this year. I'm sure they were hopeful that miniLED was the way forward, but the quality of it has not exceeded OLED, nor have the costs or complexity come down.
OLED provides far better contrast than LCD—but unless Apple improves its OLED dimming technology, this will not be a beneficial change for those sensitive to OLED flicker.
OLEDs can be dimmed with analog dimming (aka constant current reduction), in which the OLED's simply emit less light. But analog dimming's downsides include color shifts as the screen is dimmed, larger circuitry, and higher power consumption. Thus OLED screens are instead usually dimmed digitally by keeping the OLED's brightness constant (when they're on), and rapidly switching them on and off. This is called pulse width modulation (PWM). The idea is that if you want, say, 50% brightness, you rapidly switch the OLEDs on and off so that they illuminate the screen only 50% of the time.
The problem with PWM is that the frequency at which OLEDs can do this is not that high (often below 100 Hz, though it can go higher), and some can perceive this flickering and get headaches from it. The flicker becomes especially noticeable when the display is significantly dimmed. E.g., at 10% brightness, the display would have a duty cycle of 10% on and 90% off. That's why people using OLED devices at night are more likely to get eyestrain.
It would be nice if Apple gave consideration to this in making its MacBook Pro OLED screens, and either implement an improved analog dimmer, or choose an OLED technology with a high PWM frequency. For instance, according to https://www.notebookcheck.net/PWM-R...del=1&screen_resolution=1&screen_panel_type=1 , OLED variants are available with PWM frequencies > 800 Hz (833 Hz for the AMOLED Lenovo Legion Phone Duel). However, it doesn't seem Apple cares about PWM flicker, since the iPhone 14's PWM frequency is only 60 Hz. [Would the 120 Hz frequency of the new displays mean the minimum PWM frequency would also be 120 Hz?]
The LED's used to backlight LCD screens also use PWM dimming. The difference is that their PWM frequency is much higher, which makes flicker far less noticeable (and typically imperceptible, even for sensitive viewers). For instance, according to the above link, the PWM frequency for the 14" & 16" M1 MacBook Pro LCD screens is 14,880 Hz.
See also:
Flicker, the display affliction
All screens flicker to some degree, but what causes it on smartphones in particular, and how does DXOMARK test for it?
Managing PWM on OLED iPhone & iPad Displays
Some iPhone and iPad users are sensitive to PWM flickering on the latest devices OLED displays. PWM, which stands for Pulse Width Modulation, can cause some users to have eye strain, feel nauseous …
