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Apple Reportedly Planning 32- and 42-Inch OLED Displays for 2027 Amid Switch to New Panel Technology
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OLED/Mini-LED are like central bank digital currencies. We know they're coming, we're told they'll do wonders for us, but we know they're pure shiet for us.
As long as the price isn’t crazy people will be interested. But safe the say the price will be crazy and after twenty iMac years many people including myself will be priced out of the iMac market and will be forced to buy a used one a few years after launch or a used prior 27” model to get ports and features we want, while still having money for food.
I purchased a 55in Sony A80 last year, 1 year ownership so far, ive never seen a display so beautiful, and I own all the XDR displays apple has to offer. That Sony is freaking insane. I'm surprised to hear this news as I thought they were going to stay LED but I think everyone is starting to understand OLED is so much better, Samsung's Quantum Dot is no where close the last I checked as I purchased one and replaced it a year later as I wasn't satisfied (it was a lower end quantum model). I believe OLED burn in is not as critical these days but I haven't been keeping up to that degree.
Apple has a real pathetic ability to bring displays to market. I like my Dell and LG monitors. Apple launch a 40 some odd inch wide screen, ill be interested
The problem with a 32-inch OLED iMac is that the screen will be very expensive and have great longevity, but will need to get trashed when CPU gets old.
I used to be a huge fan of iMacs. I have a 2013 27-inch iMac. The screen is still great but the CPU is obsolete, and so the whole thing needs to go. I am now running a Mini with a 27 inch monitor. I'll replace the monitor only when it needs replacing. I'll replace the CPU only when it needs replacing. They are decoupled. Hopefully that will result in less waste.
2012 Retina MBP redesign
2016 Touch Bar redesign
2021 Mini LED redesign
2026 OLED redesign would fit the trend
Will be good to have a 32" iMac with OLED. Hopefully Apple will not price it too high with the OLED display.
Does Apple project things out by year, or is it just these rumor projections. It’s hard to see them say “by this time”, instead of “let’s work on this and get it out when it’s up and working”. Just seems bizarre for them to have a meeting “all devices OLED by 2027”.
This is going to be awesome!......4 years from now.
The problem with getting much higher resolution than 6K is that at a comfortable viewing distance from the center of the screen, the edges of the screen are too far away and are angled away. You really need a screen with some curvature to get much value from going higher resolution than the displays Apple currently sells.
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Please, Tim Cook, please give me a notch at the top of this new display. Also, please let it have rounded corners instead of 90-degree corners.
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Please, Tim Cook, please give me a notch at the top of this new display. Also, please let it have rounded corners instead of 90-degree corners.
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„And with this new generation of displays we want everyone to be able to afford them. So we‘re lowering the price of the Pro Stand to just $899!“
they do but it’s almost 4 years old, costs £5500 and is objectively not as good as the MBP screens (dimming zones, 120HZ, PPI).
In lit rooms my 65" TV has much more of a problem with reflection off the front glass than it does brightness.
The two issues are correlated: in a bright room you need higher brightness to combat those reflections.
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This is not a concern for most users, I have been using an OLED monitor about 10 hours a day for the past year with 0 signs of burn in. Unless you leave it on CNN 24/7 you will be fine. This issue is over rated, especially considering how far superior OLED is to any other display tech. That said, my god 2027!!! that's 4 years away, there will probably be something newer then OLED by then LOL, Apple is way way behind on display tech.
Burn-in is a function of brightness intensity and time. For typical OLED TV use, sure it's usually not a huge issue because the content is dynamic and a given area of the screen will not remain very bright constantly, except maybe the channel logo in a corner which modern OLEDs are programmed to identify and darken and that will typically change place as you change channel.
For desktop use, the situation is much different. Typical desktop UI and computer applications UI are much more static than TV content and have plenty of static elements which will be displayed for a long time at exactly the same place. Burn-in will happen much more quickly under those conditions than by watching varied content on TV.
MicroLED development continues, but yields are still very low and therefore prices are still very high - consumer TVs still run around $1000 an inch.
The Apple Watch has long been mooted to be the first MicroLED device because the display is small enough that it could be done at a price people would actually consider paying. If the Apple Watch Edition was still a thing, I could see it having been the first model with microLED, but adding it to the Apple Watch Ultra is a reasonable plan, as well.
A lot of these rumors are generated from within the supply chain themselves with no basis on actual Apple plans. OEMs who are either wanting to do business with Apple or who want other potential customers to think they are working with Apple will "leak" these "rumors" to media outlets to generate buzz for their product lines. Also, some of these media outlets are little more than marketing arms for their respective industry and will write these stories out of pure fiction to promote said industry.
OLED is starting to penetrate the computer display space, both via dedicated computer monitors and people using 42" and 48" televisions as computer displays. And now we have "reports" that Apple is looking at offering OLED monitors in these same general size categories.
Makes you go 🤔doesn't it?