I’m hoping for an 11 inch mini-LED iPad Pro.
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Kuo: Apple's Mini-LED Product Roadmap May Have Been Pushed Back to 2021
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Why did you have to go there? Now I can see the huge thread full of posts that there are dead LEDs on my new iPad/MBP! Panel lottery!
So, they increased the 15" MacBook Pro to 16", and then next year they release a 16" mini-LED.
I wonder what the difference is with the 13". They left it at 13", and then next it's a 14" mini-LED?
I wonder what the difference is with the 13". They left it at 13", and then next it's a 14" mini-LED?
11" too hopefully. I have exactly zero interest in a 12.9" model.
Probably much lower than the rate of stuck pixels on those 3K 16" screens.
A mini LED screen on the scale of an iPad is not that expensive. Scale it up to a 16 inch screen and it costs quite a bit more. If you scale it up to an 80 inch screen, it probably costs more than a house, but less than a private jet.
Did Ming at any point said this himself? ( Or is this made up by the Media again ) 10,000 LEDs? AFAIA aware the current Mini-LED in production aren't those size at all and nothing on the roadmap shows those are being mass manufactured. I mean the Pro XDR has ˜500, some of the best one has ˜1000, with a few more coming in a few years time at ˜2000+. All these are 30" Display size, you are talking way less on Laptop Size Display.
Do you mean Phone or laptop? Mini-LED ( the backlight tech ) is still LCD ( The display panel type ) and suitable for Laptop, and Desktop where you have icons remain in the same place and usage pattern and time tends to be a lot longer. With OLED you will suffer some form of burn in, which is now manageable on a Phone, but not so much on laptop / desktop yet.
Not an expert, but TCL's mini LED 4K TVs have around 1,000 zones with 25,000 mini LEDs. Would that be directly comparable to what Apple would do? That's hard to say.
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but large mini-LED TV screens currently are already for sale at mainstream prices, up to at least 75" last I checked. Less than $3000 bucks MSRP for a 75", which is a lot less than a 77" OLED TV.
If this is Apple’s roadmap for the next five years, then is seems as though their work on MicroLED isn’t going anywhere, which is a shame, because it solves many problems.
No doubt, touchbar is much less problematic that can be further improved.
We rejected the idea of soldered NVMe and RAM in a laptop that is more troublesome. Apple is not respecting the right to repair laws and responsible for e-waste pollution by not abiding the norm for offering user-replaceable.
Would you recommend to still get the 13 inch 10 gen and then later upgrade to the 14" if it comes out later?
I hope they dont come out with it by the end of the year.
Yawn..........wake me up when its MicroLED.........
mini-LED is the lunch break on the road trip to micro-LED. Wake me up when we have a micro-LED (Or OLED with burn in figured out) iPad/Mac
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Because OLED is better and they are already using that
Well, even more reason to keep my Early 2015 MBP and not upgrade anytime soon. I just wonder what the world is gonna look like a year from now, but we are thinking about stuff that might truly end up getting pushed out even further if we don’t get a vaccine.
It’s been 8 years since the Retina MBP. People know that their devices aren’t user-repairable. Look how smartphones dumped swappable batteries.
People should also be educated not to dump electronics in landfills.
You have it the other way around.
Making a large mini-LED display is easy and cheap. TVs based on mini-LED have been available since last year.
Making a small mini-LED display is expensive.
There is no such thing called miniLED display as you would not call your Mac or iPhone 11’s display an LED display.
My 16" screen looks great and doesn't have that perceptive ghosting some are complaining about.
Having said that, there's gonna be some upset peeps here and a lot more "Should I buy now or wait for mini LED?" threads.
Having said that, there's gonna be some upset peeps here and a lot more "Should I buy now or wait for mini LED?" threads.
Same reason as always -- they let Apple perform the actual innovation (eg figure out the optimal way to use these new screens in terms of the phone's appearance, plus figure out the optimal way to tweak them for calibration and power) then copy what Apple did.
Get angry if you like, but ultimately it works for everyone. Apple takes the risk, and gets most of the profit; meanwhile everyone else gets nicer screens at a cheaper price, just delayed by a year or so.
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miniLED refers to the BACKLIGHTING.
Look at the most advanced LCD TVs. They have from 200 to 800 "dimming zones". Dimming zones are individual LEDs (or clusters of LEDs) that provide backlighting for just that part of the screen, meaning that you get less bleed from a bright part of the screen to a dark part of the screen.
Presumably the goal is to ramp this up from ~800 to ~10,000, reducing bleeding a lot further.
But obviously to get there you need a whole bunch of details, like
- how to manufacture the LED array and route power to each LED
- how to manufacture a diffuser that doesn't bleed light across zones
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Is that why Samsung introduced OLED in their Galaxy smartphones nearly a decade before Apple did?
The reality is, Samsung is betting on micro-LED and skipping mini-LED.
Was OLED that great when Samsung introduced it?
I remember plenty of complaints about Pentile for years, followed by the various curved edge gimmicks that pretty much everyone hated.
Meanwhile Apple concentrated on, first Retina, then serious calibration, and year after year people generally agreed that their screens were the best for most purposes (unless you were seriously interested in proving some point, insisting that AMOLED's big feature, contrast, was by far the most important aspect of a screen).
I'd say the AMOLED story confirms my point. SS had the tech, but didn't know how to use it OPTIMALLY, and basically floundered for years without a model to guide them.