Apple is the world's fourth largest computer vendor, and the most profitable and respected. Suggesting that "Apple should just drop the hardware market altogether" is some very seriously flawed thinking.
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OLED MacBook Pro May Not Launch Next Year After All
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Dropping the notch and going back to a rectangular screen means they can source the same panels for a lower price. The signature look goes away but that's a good tradeoff to me.
Unfortunately rumors have become more what we expect than what Apple is going to deliver
Apple has changed. Tons of patents that never see light of day. Bringing a new iPhone to market last 5 years that has a new SOC and better camera but nothing ‘Must have’
Suggestion hire the best and deliver meaningful differentiated products in a shorter time span
Apple has changed. Tons of patents that never see light of day. Bringing a new iPhone to market last 5 years that has a new SOC and better camera but nothing ‘Must have’
Suggestion hire the best and deliver meaningful differentiated products in a shorter time span
It wouldn't be so bad if Apple were actually doing something new, but 3K 120Hz OLED panels are dime-a-dozen in Windows laptops. Not complaining because I am on Team OLED and all my laptops and tablets have them and my desktop has a 32" QD_OLED. No going back for me.
OLED is NOT brighter than LCD with mini LED backlighting. No OLED TV has a full screen brightness of 1,000 nits, which is ideally what you would want for perfect HDR. You do NOT need 1,000 nits full screen, but that is what most movies are mastered in. It does also not mean that the movie is at 1,000 nits the entire time, it probably more like less then 1% of the time in a small 10-25% window, like an explosion. The Apple iPad Pro tandem display can produce 1,000 nits full screen with OLED. The best OLED TVs have been getting around 200 nits full screen and around 800 in a 10% window (this is still bright enough to enjoy any film). But it's not what the specs of HDR are supposed to be, an HDR TVs should be able to hit 1,000 nits at least in a 10% window. There are OLED TVs that can do 300-400 nits in full screen and well over 1k nits in 10% window, like the LG G5 or the Samsung S95F which can do over 400 nits full screen. Sounds great and it is, but we are still 600 nits away from 1k nits full screen on a TV. That will be the one to get when it eventually comes out. Here's the thing about brightness, our eyes perceive changes in brightness logirithmically, however, brightness changes in a linear manner. So doubling the brightness from 200 nits to 400 nits does double the brightness. However, the perceived brightness it only appears a small amount brighter (something like 10-20% brighter). So it really only matters what our "perceived brightness" as we literally cant see it any other way. Apple is probably struggling with the same issues the TV companies have been having. If you increase the brightness on an OLED panel, you create burnin quicker, it gets hot, and because OLED is Organic, the Red, blue and green will age differently. This is a fundamental problem with oled. That doesn't mean an oled tv wont last 10 years or so, they have and will continue to do so as the tech continues to evolve. But remember the pixels are constantly losing brightness over time where LED backlighting does not.
I imagine we may well see a slowdown in a lot of launches as Apple tries to figure out what the tariffs are going to mean to production and pricing.
Can someone please please create a timeline of every single OLED rumour that Macrumours has reported on since 2015. I feel like every year I read another article saying OLED MacBooks just 2 years away
It's a professional laptop. All the business laptops, and most consumer laptops from Dell, HP, Asus, Lenovo, etc. have a HDMI port. PC laptops also always have an USB-A port because despite what Apple thinks, the industry haven't moved away from making peripherals with the USB-A port
LOL it's been that way for the last 5 years. Mac wins in efficiency and performance per watt. But feature wise, Windows had always been winning. More apps, more gaming support and cutting-edge display tech that pushes boundaries so fast. OLED display, 200-500Hz refresh rate, you name it, they have it while Apple Studio Display stuck with 60Hz since forever.
It's not an issue on their iPad Pro M4 lineup because they use that tandem OLED process. It would be fine on a MacBook as well. They have their solution right now.
Those dont have burn in protections. What they do is dim unaffected pixels to match affected ones which means over the years the screens are going to get dimmer.