New screen tech and size is always a compelling reason for a user to upgrade but I feel this time around that most of my apps run rather well on my M1 MBA. Hoping the battery will last 5-8 years before I need to upgrade.
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Samsung Begins Mass Production of 14-Inch and 16-Inch OLED Displays That Apple Might Use for 2022 MacBook Pro
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Hopefully in 3 years we have microLED in AW and iPhones and hopefully iPads shortly after which will make these OLED a transitionary tech. I might as well jump from LED to microLED on an AS MacBook Air when it’s available.
Suspect, Apple usually milks a technology for as long as possible take for reference the 2018 Liquid Retina Display in iPad Pro and the eventual change on the 12.9” model in 2021 which in 2022 the 11” version will get it too. That’s approximately 3 years for that marketing screen tech to change and in a limited fashion, I suspect if Apple offers miniLED for the MBP 2021 it will see a change to something else in 2024.
It is becoming ever more apparent to me after buying the M1 iPad Pro 12.9 that mini LED is a stopgap kludge of a technology. The lack of edge illumination, the strange blueish ghosting in dark video scenes and the random blooming around text make it feel altogether unfinished. Can’t wait for OLED or microLED.
WHO MAKES ALL THE DEFECTIVE SCREENS FOR THE 12 INCH MACBOOK AND MACBOOK PRO M1'S????
If I get an M CHIP Mac it will be a Mac mini.
A BOUNCH OF DEFECTIVE MACBOOK M1 SCREENS SCARES ME.
NO WONDER WHY THEY ARE SO CHEAP.
If I get an M CHIP Mac it will be a Mac mini.
A BOUNCH OF DEFECTIVE MACBOOK M1 SCREENS SCARES ME.
NO WONDER WHY THEY ARE SO CHEAP.
I think 2022 is looking more and more like the year I’ll upgrade my 2017 MBP. The new Air just puts it to shame already, so I cannot wait to see what these 2022 monsters will do.
I was wanting to make it until these got released but it seems like the terminal cancer I have may very well have its way before these finally are let loose.
Whoa buddy, keep it in your pants, this is a family website. lol.
They said 2022. 2021 will def be mini-LED. I guess it's possible there could be an update next year though. We saw rumors earlier this year where they might add Face ID or 5G to the MacBook Pro eventually but not in 2021 most likely. Could be multiple years of updates in the works.
I will just play with it at the store, truly happy with my M1 and I will soon post my review to the forums. I probably won't be in the market until 2025.
Maybe not fixed, but a lot of progress has been made on burn-in. OLED screens now have multiple protection features, varying from manufacturer to manufacturer, and the latest is to measure how much work each pixel does over it’s lifetime, and compensate for differences across the screen. This does mean the screen is not setup to use 100% of the potential to allow for creating differences. But as the new iPhone 13 can sustain 800 nits (1200 HDR) (and may be using similar protection), it gives a lot of headroom for variation if an OLED MBP were to match the 500 nits of the current generation of MBP.
Samsung has been supplying OLED displays for laptops for quite a while now. I am sure that if you want to get a laptop with this new panel you'll be able to buy it in a few weeks just not from Apple.
The good thing about it is with these M1s I can just get a baseline from now on. I just want the extra screen space/better speakers type stuff but honestly these M1s are so blazing fast it's just greedy for me to want more power
Even editing video has been a breeze for me, so nice for the price thus far.
While we are probably not gonna see a repeat of Intel and Apple would probably produce displays themselves, i wonder what the reason for Samsung lagging on the Mac side ?
Now-a-days couldn't it always come down to this?
customer "You got something better than me"..
Apple: "ok that's it, we're doing this our way"
Now-a-days couldn't it always come down to this?
customer "You got something better than me"..
Apple: "ok that's it, we're doing this our way"
Sounds good. I would definitely upgrade. I currently use a 2019 15" MacBook Pro base model. It has no issues, but I love OLED. I have wanted this for awhile.
Not going to start another discussion about the visual pros and cons of OLED vs. miniLED. What concerns me more is the question of PWM frequency. I noticed a striking change in eye fatigue coming from a 6Plus to a XS Max. iPP 12.9 with miniLED is just fine though. IMHO using OLED exclusively in upcoming macbooks would certainly be a dealbreaker for some people more sensitive to PMW, all the more so since the screens are significantly larger. On the other hand, I find it rather unlikely that Apple will be offering two fundamentally different screen technologies for the same product. Don't get me wrong, OLED is stunning and all but based on my personal experience I would not want to stare at OLED screens significantly larger than a phone all day long. YMMV though.