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Which Apple products will get OLED displays next?
That’s a huge shift, but it’s been predicted for a long time: while mini-LED displays are brilliant (quite literally; they’re famed for their exceptional brightness), they can’t quite match the deep blacks of OLED panels, largely because they’re still backlit. Where OLEDs can turn individual pixels off completely, mini-LED can only dim larger areas. Those areas are much more precise than in older LED displays, but no matter how good mini-LED gets it still can’t deliver on a per-pixel level. OLED does, and on largely dark displays that lack of illumination can also mean less energy usage. OLEDs also deliver wider viewing angles and better contrast ratios.
There’s another reason why Apple likes OLED. The panels tend to be significantly thinner and lighter than LED or mini-LED, and if there’s one thing Apple likes it’s to make its mobile devices as thin as it possibly can. If the rumours of afolding MacBookwith a20-inch touchscreenare more than just wishful thinking, you can be pretty sure it’ll be packing OLED.
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