MacBook Pro With OLED Display Likely Still at Least Three Years Away

[ostrykolesz]

I would love a MacBook Pro with built-in 5G... For people who use their MacBook Pro for work and are mobile, this is the most important upgrade that is needed. Connecting to your iPhone hotspot non-stop is a chore.

 

[svish]

Hopefully there will not be any burn in issues

 

[tothemoonsands]

I would love a MacBook Pro with built-in 5G... For people who use their MacBook Pro for work and are mobile, this is the most important upgrade that is needed. Connecting to your iPhone hotspot non-stop is a chore.

That’s a huge advantage of the iPad Pros. It does hurt battery life quite a bit though. It’s quite possible Apple could add in a 5G modem once their own version they are developing is ready, given the news about Qualcomm creating chips rivaling Apple Silicone that will have 5G.

 

[D-a-a-n]

Just about in time to upgrade my perfect M1 Max MacBook Pro.

I'll take your "old" M1 Max then please

 

[city_17]

OLED is only a mild upgrade to the mini-LED displays on MBPs at the moment, so not really worth the risky of burn in. Let's hope microLED is coming soon.

 

[k1121j]

I’d rather a mini led that is less likely to burn in and lasts longer

 

[Delarock]

if they increase mini led zones for 30 40 percent i think its gonna be fine until micro led time...

 

[sideshowuniqueuser]

Doesn't micro-LED outperform OLED, but is currently too expensive? Seems that Apple's investment in their own micro-LED manufacturing would be the better path forward, rather than waiting on the industry to ramp up production that is shared with competitors.

It will come. But until it does, it looks like OLED is the winner.

 

[The Game 161]

Ross Young was wrong before with the device category ...like ipad pro oleds that they come forever and ever...this is also not coming to the pro
The next step in mac Pro displays will be from mini-led to micro-led
This , like for the ipads air...will be for the Macbook Air panels

when has ross young been wrong?

 

[Tagbert]

when has ross young been wrong?

A lot of people on here confusing the wishcasting that other commenters make with things that actual rumor sources, like Ross Young, say. In all of the back and forth the attribution gets confused.

I think I recall that Young talked about OLED coming to some iPads in 2024 or 2025.

 

[john123]

I'm still confused by this and see way too many contradictory articles... aren't OLEDs susceptible to image retention? Why would we want this on devices with fixed UI elements?

Edited for clarity, thanks @klasma

They are and you wouldn’t. Not to be pedantic but it’s more than image retention — it’s burn-in.

And for anyone who says that burn-in isn’t a thing anymore, I have a Sony Master Series OLED from last year that begs to differ. A lot.

 

[venom600]

They are and you wouldn’t. Not to be pedantic but it’s more than image retention — it’s burn-in.

And for anyone who says that burn-in isn’t a thing anymore, I have a Sony Master Series OLED from last year that begs to differ. A lot.

You mean the A95K (or L)? That's a new QD-OLED with a Samsung panel, and those are proving to be far more susceptible to burn in than the WOLED displays from LG that Apple would likely use on a Macbook Pro. You don't see iPhones with OLED displays burning in, do you?

 

[sunny5]

You mean the A95K (or L)? That's a new QD-OLED with a Samsung panel, and those are proving to be far more susceptible to burn in than the WOLED displays from LG that Apple would likely use on a Macbook Pro. You don't see iPhones with OLED displays burning in, do you?

iPhone has a small OLED panel which is totally different from 11~32 inch OLED panel. Beside, LG is gonna use Two stack tandem OLED, not WOLED. Also WOLED is too weak to burn-in so they wont gonna use it.

Even now, OLED's burn-in is a huge issue and none of them are great for professional uses. If iPhone's example works, how come OLED monitors are still rare and have low peak brightness?

 

[OnePieceIsReal]

No thanks I own many oled and I know in time they come with more problems than led or micro led. I do photography and like to color grade also in videos too and oled is nice but it’s just not stable for color accuracy. You will see so many issues also. So it makes sense we are not there yet

 

[SesameWasher]

I have one as well, and it's pretty poor for how well regarded it is. I was originally pleased with it, but much of the content I wanted to pop in HDR suffered immensely. Once I hooked up my m1 mini to an OLED panel, I saw the future... it's not even comparable.

Okay, so you’re saying the panel from the MacBook Pro are third-tier even with all the advantages in specs?
Make my day.

The mini-LED array backlighting provides no benefit for text, compared to the same LCD panel with regular backlighting. That’s because text has much finer detail than the size of the local-dimming zones. For example, the 14” MacBook Pro has 2,010 dimming zones, which translates to almost 3000 pixels per dimming zone, or something like a rectangle of 70x42 pixels, much larger than the details of a text character.

The extra contrast provided by the dimming zones can only benefit features larger than those zones. Hence the blooming you get around small bright details against a dark background. And apart from the dimming zones, mini-LED is just a regular LCD display — even if it’s a good one as in the MacBook. The dimming zones are mostly just useful for images and videos.

Which I don’t know if that’s a big concern as it’ll hurt the productivity.

Granted dual-layer OLED might be the future, but current OLED are still not comparable.