OLED seems like a really minor upgrade - many other companies are shipping OLED screens on laptops so surely Apple can figure it out, too.Article: "Alternatively, Apple could debut the M5 MacBook Pro in early 2026 and the OLED version in late 2026, but that would be unusual."
They did M2 Pro/Max MBPs in early 2023 and M3 Pro/Max MBPs in late 2023. So it's not like there's no recent precedent.
Hence my prediction they'll ship OLED and M5 simultaneously. OLED could be done with a bit of a thinner lid without doing a full redesign. Why wait?
The mini LED screen is insanely thick, the thickest ever on a laptop - only feature I don't like about the M1 16". Hurts my eyes too, I need blue blocker glasses to look at it.
But that being said, quality is really top. Nothing broke. It just relentlessly works day in, day out, getting carried everywhere every day. I think the number of days I've left my house without laptop over the last 5 years is in the single % digits. I almost always have my mobile office on me. It's never missed a beat. Just on its own it's a very impressive feat. It's rivaling the Honda Cub for tech product reliability.
Apple bungled AI and keeps making the iPhones fuglier and fuglier but, lets not forget the quality of the hardware.
I still think they had an axe to grind and a point to prove after their too-thin butterfly keyboard disaster. The most unreliable mac laptops in history, I knew so many people who had them break just after the warranty expired. I skipped that generation completely.