I love it, predict 2025,2026,2027 and eventually when it comes out you can say I told you.
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MacBook Pro With OLED Display Might Launch a Bit Later Than Expected
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Well, it is MacRumors and not MacOfficialAnnouncments so we all know to take with a grain of salt
This is not my experience with OLED screens at all. Both phones and TVs with OLED screens look much better than their LCD counterparts to me, with better contrast, blacker blacks, no blooming effect, etc. And no flicker!
Biggest thing for me would be getting rid of the bad ghosting Apple has on their LCD displays (they've always prioritized image quality). You scroll and you can see it smears the text or in games it's like having motion blur on without having motion blur on. OLED gets rid of it entirely by default.
That being said, I just got an MBP M1 Max for a great deal so I won't be upgrading for 5+ years anyways.
My expectations for ghosting got set by passive matrix screens in the '90s... modern screens are all so good
They didn’t with the iPhone X and the iPad Pro, so that seems unlikely. The non-OLED option will be the Air.
I suspect so. I hear some complain about burn-in and flicker with OLED. I'm betting Apple was waiting in part to find a display that has superior mitigation tech. It will be interesting to see read the reviews. From the little I've read it seems flicker may be a bigger problem for games and other fast changing graphics which at least wouldn't apply to me.
The people complaining about “flicker” are complaining about PWM. Most people have no issues with PWM. OLED monitors are all the rage with gamers nowadays, so it’s not a technological problem. OLED laptops have existed since 2016, and while burn-in is an issue to some extent, it’s generally not a huge issue.
It's likely that I will wait for a thinner, OLED design in order to upgrade my 2021 M1 Max MBP. It still works well, and only a different screen technology or lighter-weight design could make me want to part with it.
I don't believe that Apple has made any announcement about OLED displays so how can you have an expected ?
I don't care about OLED. But I would love a thinner, lighter MBP OR a MBA with more than 2 ports. Whichever comes first I will buy. In the meantime, my M1Pro 14" MBP is still going strong. The current Macbook Airs are quite tempting so we'll see if I can wait until 2027.
hmm, all leakers provide timelines and set the expectations ... and most MR folks take the as the truth, but you know that already
none of what you say is present on my 13PM, my OLED TVs ... probably cause I'm blind
Thanks for making me see the truth
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Yeah, a small punch hole would be great if not within the bezel. Or at least fit FaceID and iPhone's front camera into the mostly wasted space of the current notch.
Not sure I believe that a spring introduction wasn’t the plan all along—the non-iPhone events have historically been in March and October, and if iPhone prices will see a jump as rumored with the foldable, then March would give more space for customer wallets to recover.
Spoiler alert: The delay is because they're introducing Touch Bar 2.0.
Tim: "We'Re NeVeR fIrSt."
Mhmm. Seems like Apple wants its customers to be last and be behind when the new technology comes out.
Mhmm. Seems like Apple wants its customers to be last and be behind when the new technology comes out.
Apple can delay all they want, just means my MBP M4 is still the latest and greatest 😂 😂
You know what’s more disturbing?
People reading rumours pushed by hack “journalists”, and then blaming Apple when the hack changes their made-up guesses.
Apple have not announced this device, let alone announced a launch date, so how can it be delayed?!