Apple Reportedly Planning 13-Inch MacBook Air and iPad Pros With OLED Displays

My always on screen on my 2024 MacBook will say:

GET BACK TO WORK.

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Ross Young gave us his ongoing permission to publish information he shares with his Super Followers on Twitter.

(We simply asked him. We're not paying him extra or anything like that.)

Yeah, makes total sense that Apple would debut new (and very expensive) screen technology in their cheapest laptop 🙄

I mean how many years does Apple need to release OLED notebooks? Samsung and LG has been doing this for years...

Apple doesn't release a technology just because they can. They release it when it's up to their standards.

Samsung had OLED smartphone displays before Apple, but the iPhone X's OLED display was better than the peer Galaxy (even though both used OLEDs from Samsung Display) because Apple had higher standards than Samsung Electronics did.

So you can be confident that Apple's laptop OLEDs will be superior to the competition, even if they are sourced from the same supplier.

OLED is no blooming, but prone to burn-in.

There are a number of burn-in mitigation technologies available to mitigate this. Apple could also decide to cover burn-in under AppleCare (like Alienware does with their new QD-OLED gaming monitor) to help address concerns.

Interestingly, QD-OLED will be on other brands of laptops and tablets in 2024 and even maybe microled by then. Apple needs to step up.

Consumer Micro-LED in the size for laptop, tablet and phone displays is probably a decade away. Micro-LED modules are still measured in meters and priced in the tens of thousands of dollars which is why Micro-LED TVs are in the 100"-plus range with $100,000-plus price-tags.

Yeah, makes total sense that Apple would debut new (and very expensive) screen technology in their cheapest laptop 🙄

OLED is excellent for video content consumption and I expect that is a common use case for Airs.

I mean how many years does Apple need to release OLED notebooks? Samsung and LG has been doing this for years...

and then I think MiniLED notebooks are fine enough. It's not like any professional will be doing heavy lifting of perfecting colors on notebook screen anyway...

Making notebook lighter would be my preference. I know it's difficult to make notebooks as rock solid as MacBooks without compromising some on weights, but there must be ways nonetheless...

well that's doublestack oled which is something that doesnt exist for purchase as of now,i believe

miniled are fine,but oled with dark mode with help saving a ton of battery.+ltpo with 1hz too

also ,you know,blooming.and even better contrast.

Don’t agree, OLED had many screen burn problems in early years but now they are pretty resilient to this. Also own a iPhone X for newly 5 years and has a OLED screen and not one problem with it no screen burn or anything. Apple would never use them if they had a chance of this

Because you don’t leave a menu bar or task bar on screen for hours to days on phone.