Supply Chain Reports Back Rumors of MacBook Pro and iPad Pro With Mini-LED Displays in 2020

[mi7chy]

ZERO burn in with LED

LEDs have the tendency to burn out though that's why you often see uneven edge lighting.

 

[The Game 161]

Wonder when we will see new ipads then...no longer early 2020?

 

[cardfan]

To be honest the only rumor so far was a “pro” camera like iPhone. Bump in processor, maybe more ram, WiFi 6, the usual.

This alone wouldn’t have me upgrading. But mini led at least opens the door for it. Hdr screen. As it is the current iPads pretty much can’t do it.

 

[whitedragon101]

What about the 11” iPad pro ?

 

[Peadogie]

I own products from Apple, Samsung, Google, MS, and a ton of other companies. All of it works and does exactly what I want it to do. Personal use case. Nothing else matters

I love it! 😭

 

[Populus]

I think the burn in complaint is overblown. There are many devices using OLED and there is not a huge problem that I can see.

I’ve seen a lot of burned OLED displays on the earlier smartphones with such technology, but I haven’t seen an iPhone X with those issues so far. Not a single one. Maybe it’s a better technology, or maybe is soon for that.

What I do see on the new iPhone 11 pro lineup is a green shadow when viewing it from an angle.

 

[kreasonos]

Thinner and bendier iPad Pros. Woo hoo!

 

[sirGrey]

iPads and MacBooks currently use LCDs.

And will continue to!
Kinda didn't expect this from tech savvy MacRumors.
Mini/MicroLED is about backlight, the screen remains an LCD.

 

[EightyTwenty]

Technology is finally getting exciting again. There have been quite a few major tech improvements in 2019 and planned for 2020.

Mini LED iMac, please!
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I’ve seen a lot of burned OLED displays on the earlier smartphones with such technology, but I haven’t seen an iPhone X with those issues so far. Not a single one. Maybe it’s a better technology, or maybe is soon for that.

What I do see on the new iPhone 11 pro lineup is a green shadow when viewing it from an angle.

I saw a Galaxy S7 that was an absolute disaster from burn-in sometime last year. It was shocking how bad it was. The screen was torched.

It was a display model though, which means it’s at max brightness and on all day long.

 

[avtella]

While it's true that Apple probably wants to reduce it reliance on Samsung for OLED panels, this has nothing to do with that. Apple get's OLED panels from Samsung for iPhones. This is a rumor about iPads and MBP's which do no use OLED panels at all.

Also if Apple went with OLED panels in iPads and MBP's, they'd most likely come from LG, not Samsung. Samsung specializes in small panels. LG specializes in larger panels. Pretty much any OLED panel for a TV (Sony for example) or monitor comes from LG. Afaik, Samsung abandoned large panel OLED manufacturing.

As you mentioned, MiniLED has a lot of the benefits of OLED without the downside of burn in. It is an acceptable stopgap until MicroLED is commercially viable at a large scale.

Samsung produces laptop grade full RGB sub pixel OLED panels, they have been out for a while in laptops as far back as at least the Alienware 13. Infact almost every current OLED laptop I’ve seen uses a Samsung screen XPS15, Alienware m15R2 and Razer Blade 15. However I can’t imagine the OLED display being very great after a few years of heavy use for those who want to keep them for like 4-5 years or more...especially on a tablet or laptop. MiniLED makes much more sense for laptops, I’m glad Apple didn’t follow the OLED bandwagon in tablets and more so in laptops.

LGs advantage in TV is because of the RGBW subpixel setup with 4 white subpixels where 3 have Red, Green and Blue color filters on top, with the last having none. This is supposed to be more burn in resistant but if I recall power draw would not be suitable for mobile devices.

In regards to the smaller RGBG OLED screens on the mobile side if I recall technology wise Samsung is still ahead.

Either way MicroLED with MiniLED as a stepping stone is pretty much the future. Samsung among other MicroLED manufacturers demoed their ultra pricey modular MicroLED TV at CES2019, looked really great, can’t wait for Apple and others to get the technology implemented in end user products. Yield rates and hence high costs are still problematic which is why companies are looking at modular construction of displays.