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OLED MacBook Air Expected to Follow Touch Screen OLED MacBook Pro
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Is this going to be custom accessory ? Apple touch fist made from carbon neutral materials.
You need to think like an MBA. They want a product that self-destructs just after the warrantee runs out. A five year life is just fine for Apple's bottom line.
Screen savers may become popular again. Flying Toasters may be back.
I've seen differing comments about the brightness of OLED. Are they brighter (and therefore better in outdoor daylight use) than LED or not? Easier to read in the sun or even in the shade that what I have now would be good.
A Dynamic Island on a Mac makes no sense. Notifications are housed on the upper right corner of the screen, and command menus on the upper left spanning towards the center of the menu bar. A Dynamic Island with Live Activity indicators sitting in the center of the menu bar, potentially mingled among command menus, when all other status icons are right-flush would be a terrible UI decision.
Let's hope it's detachable (it won't be) so I can ditch my iPad which I use for reading pdf and comics in 95% of my use case
I only draw 5% of the time .
I only draw 5% of the time .
The tandem OLEDs Apple uses in the M4 iPad Pros do get brighter than standard LCD screens, but they're about the same brightness as the Mini LED screens used in M1/M2 iPad Pro 12.9s and M1+ MacBook Pros. They should also degrade slower than a single-sheet OLED, but they will degrade. It's just inherent to the technology.
Mini LED also offers contrast ratios pretty close to OLED, and contrast ratio is really the only thing OLED has going for it.
Tandem OLEDs are more expensive than single-sheet ones, of course, so no clue if Apple will actually use them for the MacBook Air.
If their intent was to merge iOS and MacOS all along, Apple has had probably a decade or so to do it. Yet they seem to not commit fully and so instead we a pointless UI reskin in Glass.
Just use a Smart Keyboard with iPad. Boom there is your solution.
Just install this app and your notch disappears - https://topnotch.app/
I'll upgrade my MBP when it's equipped with a M6 Pro, and hopefully it will have OLED by then.
If it's only available with a touchscreen, I'll pass on it completely.
If it's only available with a touchscreen, I'll pass on it completely.
I don’t think that touchscreen is meant to be the main way of interacting with the device like this. It’s probably most likely similar to how I interact with my iPad when it’s on the magic keyboard. Every now and then I might press the screen to select something in AutoCorrect or drag something, but otherwise it’s mostly the trackpad.
Wait, I don't understand this. If a touch screen in a forest isn't touched, does is it matter????
Nobody is going to force you to use a touch screen.
~2028 MacBook Air getting OLED is fine. I'm sure 2028 OLEDs will be fine. A 2025 OLED might not have been brighter, but it likely will be by then.
Hopefully it will come with 120Hz Pro Motion too.
I guess Apple just needs to put it off until then for the sake of margins and product segmentation.
Hopefully it will come with 120Hz Pro Motion too.
I guess Apple just needs to put it off until then for the sake of margins and product segmentation.
I kinda agree. Mini LED on the MBP has thus far been fantastic. (well, I did burn out one of the backlights on my M1 when cleaning it too aggressively, but otherwise awesome.)
It's remarkable that the Studio Display didn't ship with Mini LED. I use one side-by-side with my MBP and it just looks like ass. I guess they were more concerned with stupid camera tricks that nobody cares about.
It depends on how it's used, IMHO. Having it update sports scores, flight status, etc. without the annoying notifications popping up on the upper left would be useful, for me. ideally it could be disabled and the MB act like it does today as well.
If they do go that route, I hope they make it optional rather than rolling in the cost on all machines. That way, those that want it can pay to upgrade, much as some screens are done today. It would also give Apple an idea of the actual demand for touchscreens.
Way more likely Apple will add it to everything, think it adds to the value proposition and justifies their margins more.
Touchscreens on MacBooks seem kind of pointless to me. But if adding them means Apple finally improves the screen coating on MacBook Airs to resist those annoying permanent smudges, then I’m all for it. I can wipe oil off my iPad screen no problem after heavy use, but both my MacBook Air and Pro have marks that just won't come off.
Which means you have exactly as much screen real estate as you did on the pre-notch macbooks. If you really think the pre-notch machines were better then, congrats, that’s what that gives you
I hope they make the touch screen optional and have one without. Not at all bothered about that on my Mac.
I wouldn't buy any OLED laptop because of burn in. It's an inherent limitation of the technology and it's going to happen sooner or later despite the mitigation techniques.
There are way too many static elements on screen on computers.
There are way too many static elements on screen on computers.
They're afraid of the backlash after they publicly made fun of Windows 8 for modifying their UI for touch. That's why they're going for yearly incremental changes, aka the boiling the frog in warm water method
Another BS rumor “journalist” Mark Gurman had been pushing for years!! I don’t see it happening… ever!