Maybe Apple's going to keep the 13.3" MacBook Pro in their line up a while longer. Touch Bar lovers rejoice! You'll be the first to get an OLED display (to match your OLED Touch Bar) 🤣
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OLED MacBook Air Reportedly Now in Development as Apple Plans to Bring New Display Technology to Multiple Product Lines
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What happened to the previous “Apple’s OLED screens will be super expensive and significantly increase the price” fear mongering. No mention of it here. Or do we think that the MBPs will have inferior screens compared to the iPads. LOL
On the PC side, OLED laptops are selling for $1000. Apple has fallen behind.
I am ready for a new 15" MBA. Bring it! 
Probably not until the MacBook Pro goes to 144 Hz or higher (probably a fair bit higher).
Is OLED now as color accurate as LCD? I mean it's easier to get accurate whites with a white backlight, rather than mixing it from red, green and blue which are always slightly imperfect. I know OLED gives better contrast but it always seemed to me that LCD gave more natural colors and smooth color gradients. Though there are professional OLED reference monitors, just not many.
The first results of the latest RTings long term burn in tests don't look too promising for the new QD-OLED panels. So perhaps be careful what you wish for...
QD-OLED has to drive all three color (RGB) pixels to create white, whereas WOLED has a dedicated white OLED in addition to three color filters to turn white into RGB. So for tests like RTings, where they run a white news ticker for hours at a time, that means all of the QD-OLED's pixels need to be driven 100% of the time whereas the white OLED in the WOLED is the only one that needs to be driven. So speculation is that this is why QD-OLEDs are showing greater burn-in and wear in those types of tests.
As the article suggests, Apple will be sourcing WOLEDs from LG so that will likely help a bit on it's own, plus the technologies Apple and LG will be implementing to help mitigate image retention and burn-in.
Hopefully the price hike for OLED MacBook Air is not too much.
OLED is and has been capable of extremely accurate colors. The $10k+ Sony reference monitors movie makers use are typically OLED.
In term of comfort of vision, LCD is much better than OLED. The PWN issue when you scroll is so apparent and disturbing that it’s unwatchable. I’ve kept my Xr for this reason. The screen is far superior.
However with 120Hz displays this might not be the case anymore but I haven’t tried.
