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Mini-LED: What it Means for Apple and MacBooks and iPads
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Perhaps the Intel screen driver HW is not as flexible and performant as the Apple screen driver HW?
That's functionality that's on the Intel SoC that Apple can't trivially replace -- until they go to their own SoCs in Macbooks...
I’m hoping for end of 2020 for an 11” iPad Pro with mini-LED but that’s probably too optimistic.
I’m here for it!!!!!
I like it when Apple does big things.
Small changes are fine but I wish they did more major upgrades.
For example: new product segments, new Flagship features, game changing re-designs
TAKE MY MULA BABY!!! Lol
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Apple is literally a grown mans toys.
Kids might wanna get some action figures,
I want new MacBooks, iPads, watches, iPhones, you name it lol
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it looks like an iPad Pro with a giant keyboard attached.
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Not excited, micro-LED is better.
Apple ProDisplay XDR already has 576 local dimming zones.
Future mini-LED products will have over 1,000 local dimming zones. That's why mini LED display quality will exceed OLED. When you have so many dimming zones, you get effectively true blacks and very high contrast.
Every pixel in an OLED display is independently lit.
In other words, a 4K OLED display has 8,294,400 "local dimming zones."
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Then the question is, can the human eye see 8 million local dimming zones from 2ft. away?
Is it better to take the high brightness offered by mini-LED and fewer dimming zones? Apple seems to believe so given they chose mini LED and not OLED for the ProDisplay XDR.
No, that’s not the question. OLED unquestionably does better even be than mini-LED at contrast.
No. Apple uses LCD on their pro devices (with the exception of the iPhone Pro) because of color accuracy.
„OLED too expensive for larger Screens“
What about TV sets? Ok, OLED is expensive but there are offers for a little more than 1000$ for OLED 55“ screens... and then it’s not possible for a 13“ laptop????
I think the risk of burning in is the point, where Apple fears law suits...
Apple, bring the Micro-LED!
*remembering the good old „starfield“ screens saver times* sigh
What about TV sets? Ok, OLED is expensive but there are offers for a little more than 1000$ for OLED 55“ screens... and then it’s not possible for a 13“ laptop????
I think the risk of burning in is the point, where Apple fears law suits...
Apple, bring the Micro-LED!
*remembering the good old „starfield“ screens saver times* sigh
Much lower resolution.
A 55-inch 4K OLED TV has a ppi of just 80.
A 27-inch iMac has 224; a 13.3-inch MacBook Pro has 227.
Anyway, I don’t think the main reason is cost, but rather reliable color accuracy. Just look at the very first thing the 13-inch MacBook Pro is positioned for: photography.
Nope.
It is impossible to exceed OLED contrast, since OLED has infinite contrast.
Mini-LED will be an incremental improvement over current iPad Pros, and a welcome one at that, but it won’t have true blacks.
The Apple XDR display is not mini-LED.
BTW, interestingly, Netflix’s Sense 8 (which was co-written and directed by the Wachowskis, of Matrix fame) used consumer LG OLEDs in some of its post production work.
Others are recommending the same thing for production workflows that can’t justify $30000 professional production monitors.
Using an OLED TV for Post Production | Jonny Elwyn - Film Editor
OLED TVs deliver a superior quality image at an affordable price, but should you use them in post production? Learn what makes LG OLED C8 and E8 TV's a great choice for film post production work and how to get the best out of them.
jonnyelwyn.co.uk
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Watching a movie on an iPhone with OLED is so much better than my iPad Pro or MacBook Pro. Whether watched in a bright vs dim room, irrespective of genre, the perfect blacks and superior technology make it wonderful with awesome depth and realism, just like my pioneer 101fd kuro plasma (will get OLED when that baby dies).
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