Display industry analyst Ross Young has tweeted to his “Super Followers” that Apple is planning a 13-inch MacBook Air and iPad Pro (11-inch and 12.9-inch) with OLED displays for 2024. He says:
° They’ll adopt a two-stack tandem structure, in which there are two red, green, and blue emission layers;
° This allows for increased brightness and lower power consumption.
° The Mac and iPad Pro models will adopt LTPO display technology for a variable refresh rate between 1Hz and 120Hz — in other words, ProMotion.
OLED may be better than LCD when it comes to brightness and color ratios, but the latter is more cost-effective option. Meanwhile, mini-LED aims to offer the best of both worlds. For example, the 2021 iPad Pro with Mini-LED technology can achieve 1,000 nits of full-screen brightness with 1,600 nits of specular highlights, with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and wide DCI-P3 color gamut. Packaged into a design that’s just 6.4mm thin.
