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Report: MacBook Pro With OLED Display to Launch Late Next Year

GioGiusi said:
With how good the mini-LED displays are that they have now, I can't imagine this being that important of an update.
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Going from a mini-LED backlight to an emissive tandem (layered) OLED is a significant difference in power efficiency. Battery life should be measurably improved. The new Nanosheet transistors in M6 will also be more efficient. The two improvements combined in a new chassis designed for them will feel like a pretty large improvement, even if it allows them to sacrifice some of that gain to use a smaller battery, to make it lighter.
 
DEMinSoCAL said:
"required brightness"? How bright does a display need to be on a laptop? It can't be good for your eyes to have 1000 nits of brightness blinding you. Do you have Windows laptops with OLED displays? They are so night-and-day better than the typical display panel that now OLED is all I use. In the end, all this wait-and-see from Apple will surely produce a nice OLED, but it's a shame they can't use current OLED tech in current products and then transition to the better OLED as a feature upgrade in a new model.
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Brightness is very important for working under sunlight / in bright spaces. It's also important for enjoying HDR.

On my current M1 14" MBP, I frequently enable extended brightness via Brightintosh tool, because default maximum of 500 nits is simply not good enough for many situations.
 
tenthousandthings said:
Going from a mini-LED backlight to an emissive tandem (layered) OLED is a significant difference in power efficiency. Battery life should be measurably improved. The new Nanosheet transistors in M6 will also be more efficient. The two improvements combined in a new chassis designed for them will feel like a pretty large improvement, even if it allows them to sacrifice some of that gain to use a smaller battery, to make it lighter.
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So your take is that apple thanks to oled and M6 will make the laptop thinner and lighter and not going for more battery life or , maybe higher core clock speed
 
JonathanX64 said:
Brightness is very important for working under sunlight / in bright spaces. It's also important for enjoying HDR.

On my current M1 14" MBP, I frequently enable extended brightness via Brightintosh tool, because default maximum of 500 nits is simply not good enough for many situations.
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You are talking about an 4-5 year old tech, i think here we will see the tandem oled that has 1000 nits maximum default with 1600 peak
 
MayaUser said:
So your take is that apple thanks to oled and M6 will make the laptop thinner and lighter and not going for more battery life or , maybe higher core clock speed
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My take is more that it will allow them to do both (or all three). The comment I was replying to was saying OLED may not be a big deal. I'm saying it will be, especially when combined with the silicon improvements. Apple's engineers will strike a balance, like always.
 
JohnRckr said:
Meanwhile Windows laptops worth 999€ had it for years.
But when Apple releases it, they will market it like the best thing ever since sliced bread.
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k1121j said:
Kinda will be because it’s not windows.
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DEMinSoCAL said:
Global market share of Windows vs macOS says you're wrong.
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What does it have to to with windows market share? its a first for the Mac users so its definitely the best thing since sliced bread for the Mac user. Yay for windows market share!
 
PBG4 Dude said:
I wonder if it can match the 1600 nits on my M4 Pro MBP. Can’t believe I can see the screen clearly when outside.
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at 1600nits ofc you can...even at 1000...but at 1600nits you can see the display even with direct sunlight on it
 
My Wishlist
  • 2nm Architecture
  • New 4x faster Neural Cores optimized for local LLMs and Local image and video AI generation
  • New 50% faster GPU Cores
  • New 50% faster CPU Cores
  • Tandem OLED
  • No notch
  • Better Webcam
  • 1TB storage base configuration
  • Ultra SoC option.
 
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tenthousandthings said:
Going from a mini-LED backlight to an emissive tandem (layered) OLED is a significant difference in power efficiency. Battery life should be measurably improved. The new Nanosheet transistors in M6 will also be more efficient. The two improvements combined in a new chassis designed for them will feel like a pretty large improvement, even if it allows them to sacrifice some of that gain to use a smaller battery, to make it lighter.
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Hopefully that's true but its not exactly hurting for battery life right now.
 
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JohnRckr said:
Meanwhile Windows laptops worth 999€ had it for years.
But when Apple releases it, they will market it like the best thing ever since sliced bread.
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You are right, but only a handful of top end Windows Laptops like Dell have Tandem OLED displays. To be fair to Apple they introduced it first on a mainstream device with the iPad Pro M4, and putting this same display into the new 2026 MBP's.
 
senttoschool said:
Still on M1 Pro 16" MBP. Won't upgrade without the OLED panel and matrix multiplication acceleration in Apple Silicon GPUs.

Tandem OLED would actually yield a difference in everyday computing experience.

Matrix multiplication acceleration in Apple Silicon GPUs means local LLMs will run much faster. Right now, Apple Silicon machines can run very large LLM models locally decently due to high bandwidth unified memory, but the experience is often poor because processing the prompts is very slow. IE., you could be waiting minutes before the AI starts to return tokens if your context is high and the model size is large.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to invest in a 128GB VRAM Macbook Pro if the LLM model is going to take minutes to process my prompt.

Nvidia and AMD GPUs already have matrix multiplication accelerators. They're called Tensor Cores on Nvidia GPUs.
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When are we to expect matrix multiplication acceleration in AS?
 
MayaUser said:
You are talking about an 4-5 year old tech, i think here we will see the tandem oled that has 1000 nits maximum default with 1600 peak
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Depending on what you want to do with your MBP, it may or may not be enough. If you're shooting for P3/D65 ST.2084 or Rec.2020 ST.2084 your target is 4000 nits. Not that I'd use a MBP for such work, a Sony HX3110 is a much better display for such work and it does 4000 nits on a 10% window and 1000 nits on 100%.

Ever since Apple came out and touted their displays are the best and compared the XDR to professional Sony monitors some people got the idea that MBPs and the XDR can be used to master DV content. 🤷‍♂️
 
I have a feeling that the “redesign” will only mean the top half (screen) will be thinner thanks to the oled panel. Can definitely see the bottom half of the pro remaining the same but even with that change it’ll be lighter and thinner.
 
Then I hope they'll do another MacBook Pro before the switch to OLED. I'll get that one, since this talk about the "thinnest possible" device makes me worry about the battery and, most of all, the quality of the speakers.
 
The next MacBook Pro redesign is my most anticipated product from . Hope they knock it out of the park like they have been since  Silicon debuted.
 
None of this matters. I swear, none of this matters. The MacBook Pro is not a 'device' or a 'gadget' that needs frivolous, trendy, chic and fashionable upgrades like making it thinner. I've been working on MacBooks for over two decades, doing work. Work requires great battery life and a great keyboard. The screens are good enough. Thinner usually means worse battery life and a worse keyboard.
 
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