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TechComputers & PCsLaptopsMacBooks and iPads tipped for huge OLED display upgrade – but there’s a catchOLEDs are even better displays than the Mini-LEDs in the best MacBook Pro and iPad models. There’s just one problemWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
OLEDs are even better displays than the Mini-LEDs in the best MacBook Pro and iPad models. There’s just one problem
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The mini-LED displays in the bestiPadsandMacBook Prosare wonderful things, but as you’ll know from youriPhone 13orApple Watch Series 7Applehas an even better display technology: OLED. That tech is coming to iPads and MacBooks – but sadly you shouldn’t expect an announcement atWWDC 2022this week. That’s because Samsung hasn’t built the production line to make them yet.
I think they’ll be worth waiting for, though. While Mini-LED is a big step up from standard LED displays, it’s still an LED display: it may have more, smaller LEDs in the backlight to deliver better contrast and colour, but it’s still a backlit LED display. OLED displays aren’t backlit, and that’s potentially a very big deal for next-gen iPads and Macs.
Why OLED displays are better
This is something we’re seeing play out in thebest TVsyou can buy right now. At the top of the market you’ll find two display technologies competing with one another: mini-LED and OLED. And while mini-LED is good, OLED is generally better in all but two respects: size and price. OLEDs are generally more expensive than similarly specified mini-LED TVs, but manufacturers have struggled to make them in smaller sizes – so at the time of writing the smallest OLED in our best TV guide is 43 inches.
Size is not an issue with smaller devices such as phones and laptops: there are lots of models featuring OLED, from myiPhoneto laptops such as theDell XPS 13 9310 OLEDandHP Spectre X360. But according toMacRumors, the screens for an iPad or MacBook Pro won’t be ready until 2025.
That’s a shame, because an OLED MacBook Pro oriPadwould be a brilliant thing: OLED means genuinely black blacks, exceptional contrast and gorgeous colours, and because you’re lighting the display at a per-pixel level you can often eke out plenty more battery life too – something that’s always going to be important in mobile computers. But for the time being it looks like thebest iPadsandbest MacBooksthat haven’t already ben launched are going to be running mini-LED, and it’s likely to stay that way for a few more years.
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