I have just been underwhelmed by the M4. The M5 might be the biggest leap since the M1.
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MacBook Pro Likely to Get OLED Display and Thinner Design in 2026
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Unless someone KNOWS there`s a very specific feature/spec arriving within reasonable time:
- You can spend a lifetime waiting for the next thing, and Apple are brilliant at making you want the next thing before what you just bought has arrived at your door.
Apple just released new (USB C) keyboards. Love when the keys are illuminated, and you/I have been waiting for how long? 👍
- You can spend a lifetime waiting for the next thing, and Apple are brilliant at making you want the next thing before what you just bought has arrived at your door.
Apple just released new (USB C) keyboards. Love when the keys are illuminated, and you/I have been waiting for how long? 👍
i would stay with mini-led mbp anyway... these oled screens always causes eyestrain
I said when I got my M1 Air that I was keeping it until the M6, at least. I plan to stick to that.
I don’t know what they introduce with the M5 line that would make me change my mind.
I don’t know what they introduce with the M5 line that would make me change my mind.
The non-Pro Pro seems to mostly exist for the better display. It’d be nice to have the option for something Air-sized that also had ProMotion and 2x retina at regular scaling, but still have the maxed out battery and cooling for the M-whatever Pro and Max.
Can't wait for that butterfly keyboard to come back!
Nothing thinner than a sheet of air to type on while your MacBook is getting the entire top case replaced because of one sticky key.
Nothing thinner than a sheet of air to type on while your MacBook is getting the entire top case replaced because of one sticky key.
Yes.
Hell no. Unless it's a configurable option, and all models come with function keys as default.
Perhaps. But OLED is certainly good enough for the vast majority of users, increasing brightness and contrast, massively improving response time, and reducing power consumption compared to LCD. Pros that need absolutely perfect colour grading or whatever are going to be doing that on an external display anyway.
We can't have both of these things together, unless you are advocating for a "dynamic island" type solution or a return to big bezels.
Ever since Steve Jobs died, Apple has been going more and more full ****** with every passing year. Nobody cares about thinner. Sure thin is nice to some degree, but it gets to a point where durability becomes an issue, as it already is. I just want a macbook that's built to last, and doesn't have a notch cut out of the screen.
Just can't believe how stupid Apple has become. They lack any real innovation like Jobs was able to produce so they think putting notches in the screen, removing crucial ports, installing new keyboards that fail, going thinner and flimsier, putting charging ports on the bottom of mice, power buttons on the bottom of the mac mini, etc is innovation because nobody else is that brazen, crazy, or stupid to design something like that. Sad to see what Apple has become as they desperately try to carry on the legacy of Steve Jobs' innovation.
Just can't believe how stupid Apple has become. They lack any real innovation like Jobs was able to produce so they think putting notches in the screen, removing crucial ports, installing new keyboards that fail, going thinner and flimsier, putting charging ports on the bottom of mice, power buttons on the bottom of the mac mini, etc is innovation because nobody else is that brazen, crazy, or stupid to design something like that. Sad to see what Apple has become as they desperately try to carry on the legacy of Steve Jobs' innovation.
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If you make it too thin, it becomes fragile. The MBA is too thin for my liking. I need something that can take a few (protected) knocks and not matter. My 13" rMBP has been great in this regard. I can carry it and not feel like I'm going to squash it.
Even my iPad Air 5 is a tiny bit too fragile. I can't even clean the screen without it doing weird colors (and I'm gentle!). It bothers me a lot.
Even my iPad Air 5 is a tiny bit too fragile. I can't even clean the screen without it doing weird colors (and I'm gentle!). It bothers me a lot.
It's unlikely to ever die unless you damage it somehow. It will just get slower and eventually become obsolete as software marches on.
A return to bigger bezels is fine as long as the notch, and dynamic islands go away. The notch breaks all continuity, symmetry, and aesthetics of the screen. It's an eye sore and a distraction. How many TVs do you think Samsung, Sony, or any other company would sell if the TV had a giant notch at the top of the screen? Do you want to watch a movie with a huge notch cut out in the picture??? It has to be the most idiot design choice in the history of display technology. I know there are ways to hide the notch, but how pathetic is it to spend 3K on a laptop, and right away you're looking for a way to fix it because it feels broken due to the notch. Sad times for Apple consumers.
Of course not, which is why you can't see the notch when you play a movie. Since TV shows and movies are typically 16:9 (or narrower) and the MacBook Pro screen is 16:10, this is absolutely whatsoever not an issue.
Don't think of the notch as taking something away. Think of it as giving you a little extra screen space by taking advantage of an area that would otherwise be wasted. Conveniently, that area corresponds with the menu bar and widget bar on macOS. For any software where the notch is a distraction, such as full-screen games or movies, that area just doesn't get used.
All OLED screens have a nasty high frequency flicker. They're horrible in that respect. They aren't an upgrade but the end of the line for a product.
Until this latest generation, Apple's iPad Pro OLED screens were the brightest they ship on a large-screen portable device. With the M4 MacBook Pros, the new screen matches the brightness spec of that iPad display at 1000 nits standard / 1600 nits HDR peak.
But the iPhone 16 OLED display is still brighter than any LCD display that Apple ships on any device, with 2000 nits peak, exceeding even the Pro Display XDR. And the Watch Ultra goes to 3000 nits!
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To be fair, menu bar is affected by the notch, particularly for professional software with multiple menu options. They've had to cram things into sub-menus which is not a lot of fun for users.
I find it extremely annoying, and would love to have a notchless screen on my 16 inch MacBook.
I literally forgot my MacBook had a notch until you said.
I'm already worried about the fragility of current MBP lids. Making them thinner will inevitably compromise strength.
I have an m1 mbp and other than the screen brightness so far I’m content. I think I’m 1-2 years from upgrade.
I know. The problem is making the assumption that it will be brighter than the LED Apple is using. If Apple goes to OLED, it will probably match the brightness (see iPad Pro screen specs vs MBP specs). That is unless there's some significant breakthrough in OLED in the next 1.5 years.