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MacBook Pro Likely to Get OLED Display and Thinner Design in 2026

wdfly said:
Give me more power over thinner and lighter any day.
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24 hour battery life is more than enough.

Granted it is less with intensive use but I honestly don't know anyone that can't find a socket or a portable battery to work from. Some of us would like to carry something around that is just a powerful but lighter, easier to handle and better looking. If you don't care about weight you can just throw a battery into your bag and get anything from 1x to 5x the backup charge depending on what weight you want to move around.
 
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Given that my M2 Pro MBP is only 1 year old, and I just finished paying off the financed purchase, yes, I will be skipping this round.

If history is to repeat itself, we can expect the M5 MBP in 4 months.
 
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Kay_Ess said:
We all need strange hobbies! Some people drink, others have a boat, I paint Warhammer stuff. Upgrading your laptop sounds pretty innocent to me.
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Oh, it's a totally alright thing to do if you can afford it. 😃

I would love to upgrade my laptop with every processor update. (Sell what I'm currently using and use the money towards an upgrade.) Though it seems like kind of a hassle to have to get it prepared to sell and then find someone who will buy it, etc.

I used to upgrade yearly with the iPhone. Except then I either traded my old one in or just held onto it. But nowadays, an iPhone can last a few years if not longer, and not to mention money is tighter.

I'm hoping my M1 Max MacBook Pro can last me a good while. I just worry that Apple will make it "obsolete" before it should. 😄
 
frozencarbonite said:
Oh, it's a totally alright thing to do if you can afford it. 😃

I would love to upgrade my laptop with every processor update. (Sell what I'm currently using and use the money towards an upgrade.) Though it seems like kind of a hassle to have to get it prepared to sell and then find someone who will buy it, etc.

I used to upgrade yearly with the iPhone. Except then I either traded my old one in or just held onto it. But nowadays, an iPhone can last a few years if not longer, and not to mention money is tighter.

I'm hoping my M1 Max MacBook Pro can last me a good while. I just worry that Apple will make it "obsolete" before it should. 😄
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Haha I’m even worse: I don’t even have my first MacBook yet!

Also:
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
- Seneca
 
Chuckeee said:
Are those actually two independent changes? It seems that the OLED display will strongly drive the MacBook redesign that will result in a thinner MacBook.
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Indeed. We saw OLED as an opportunity for better battery life, so we made it thinner for less battery life. Thinnovation!
 
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dannys1 said:
24 hour battery life is more than enough.

Granted it is less with intensive use but I honestly don't know anyone that can't find a socket or a portable battery to work from. Some of us would like to carry something around that is just a powerful but lighter, easier to handle and better looking. If you don't care about weight you can just throw a battery into your bag and get anything from 1x to 5x the backup charge depending on what weight you want to move around.
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You cannot reduce size without compromising something.
 
…Any chance the MacBook Pros will lose the camera notch and go back to having a straight edge along the top of the display with its next redesign? The iPad bezels are thin enough, and you can still maybe even go a smidge thinner without compromising display geometry, especially on the sides. (Also, no weirdness with round display corners, please!)

(I never really got the fascination with such minimalist bezels, anyway. As long as a screen's bezels are dark and fade into the background or not too reflective, then it's fine.)
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The switch to OLED displays could also contribute to future MacBook Pro models having a thinner design.

Second is the just-mentioned thinner design. Earlier this year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said Apple was working to make the MacBook Pro thinner over the "next couple of years." He said that Apple is aiming to create a class of devices that "should be the thinnest and lightest products in their categories across the whole tech industry."
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This is completely unnecessary. MacBook Pros, and all laptops generally, are excessively thin already.
 
Tandem OLED would probably get me to replace my M1 MB Air.

Hopefully it will survive until 2026. They keyboard feels a bit.. strange lately.
 
RandomDSdevel said:
Also, no weirdness with round display corners, please!
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I like those rounded display corners. It does not always have to be 100% function - sometimes a little bit of pleasing looks is very nice (and rare to find anyway).

RandomDSdevel said:
This is completely unnecessary. MacBook Pros, and all laptops generally, are excessively thin already.
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No, they're not. Stagnation is the enemy of progress. Why should MBP's be thicker than what available technology would allow for? Feel free to downrate my related satirical post here.
 
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If Apple can offer a sufficient sum to LG Display (or to the Chinese tech giant TCL Group), we could see the OLED display debut in the next MacBook around 2025 or thereabouts. Most likely, Apple will manage it, and LG (or TCL) will become even richer.
 
snipr125 said:
What about their own Tandem OLED screen in the iPad Pro M4? Surely thats what they are going to use right as its basically the most advanced display in the world right now.
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maybe i got a lemon, but the ipad oled screen i have is worse than both my iphone oled and macbook pro mini-led, i'll be upgrading to the last macbook pro model before they switch to oled given how disappointing this thing is. and fwiw the macbook pro screen is the easily the nicest screen i own.
 
Vivid makes the display so brighter anyways so it’s fine; also this will be delayed to 2028 I think, I’m keeping M1 Max until they remove the notch
 
Remind me why rumors for something that is 2 years away is something we are interested in, and make comments about? Including my comment.
 
I won't replace my M1 max before they update the design. Even then I may skip 1st/2nd iteration of new product.
As a software developer I don't have need for even more power at the moment, but I would consider to update for some new features.
 
stevemiller said:
maybe i got a lemon, but the ipad oled screen i have is worse than both my iphone oled and macbook pro mini-led, i'll be upgrading to the last macbook pro model before they switch to oled given how disappointing this thing is. and fwiw the macbook pro screen is the easily the nicest screen i own.
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Im thinking the same, buying the last model before they ruin the design by making it thiner and the they start to over heat.

At least this way the M5 Max should be even more power efficient with the current heat sinks, if they make it thiner with thiner heat sinks etc we will need to wait for the M10 before that chip is efficient enough for that new design if you see what im trying to say.

I said before im not sure on oled yet and seeing the iPad Pro has got this thing where the greys are fuzzy its not convincing me
 
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Leachb31 said:
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.
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You realize Jobs was all about making devices as small as they could. Why do you think the original iPhone was so small?

You have some rose tinted glasses I think. Jobs was innovative, but what was Jobs so innovative in comparison? An all in one computer? A music player? A touch screen? An App Store?

Is lidar technology added for AR mapping and the Vision Pro not innovative enough for you? It needs to be lighter, but you can’t argue it’s magnificence. How about the M chip product line? That seems to be dominating the industry now. How about working towards digital IDs in the states? How about AirPods? Those started a whole new industry. How about the Apple Watch? How about the direction of all the health tracking?

I get nostalgia. I do. But sometimes it fogs how we see things. I’ll give you removal of ports and other little design flaws, but those are nitpicking personal preferences or personal use cases.
 
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Kay_Ess said:
We all need strange hobbies! Some people drink, others have a boat, I paint Warhammer stuff. Upgrading your laptop sounds pretty innocent to me.
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We need more comments like this. I don’t get people that get so upset how other people live their life and spend their money. If those people had their choice we would be a fascist country and we would all look and do the same ****. Sounds like a terrible society. Just let people be.
 
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Can't wait for this - the 16" MBP is already so incredible but throw an OLED display on there and shave a pound off and it'll be legendary.
 
Trusteft said:
Why this obsession with thinner above all? With as few ports etc as possible?
I don't know, it feels like there are deeper issues here which manifest as this push for more and more thin and less and less...functional? I don't know. It feels weird.
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Or tech is improving and they're able to make thinner without compromises.
 
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