MacBook Air will use OLED screens and may be launched as early as next year
Recently, foreign technology media reported that Apple's MacBook Air may be the first to be equipped with an OLED display screen and is expected to be officially launched next year.
Previously, the Apple MacBook Air series had always used LCD screens, with only the professionally positioned MacBook Pro 14 inch and 16 inch using mini LED screens. Mini LED is actually a new type of backlight technology, where the backlight beads can be made smaller. Although there is still a significant gap compared to OLED's single pixel self illumination, due to the fact that the backlight beads can be made into multiple zones and can be controlled separately, they have significant advantages over LCD.
Thanks to the larger number of backlight beads, mini LEDs have a natural advantage in brightness, easily surpassing the high brightness of 1000 nits. At the same time, this high brightness is not just a local area, but a full screen brightness. Under the same specifications, OLEDs with full screen illumination can generally only maintain a few hundred nits, and their so-called peak brightness of 1000 nits is usually maintained briefly at this brightness when local areas are illuminated.
Nevertheless, mini LED is not a perfect technology. Although its brightness is high enough, due to the lack of single sub pixel emission characteristics like OLED panels, there are still phenomena such as astigmatism when displaying fonts on a solid color background, and the contrast is far from pure as OLED. OLED can independently control a single pixel, and the entire pixel does not emit light under a pure black background, making it completely black and pure.
Thanks to the larger number of backlight beads, mini LEDs have a natural advantage in brightness, easily surpassing the high brightness of 1000 nits. At the same time, this high brightness is not just a local area, but a full screen brightness. Under the same specifications, OLEDs with full screen illumination can generally only maintain a few hundred nits, and their so-called peak brightness of 1000 nits is usually maintained briefly at this brightness when local areas are illuminated.
Nevertheless, mini LED is not a perfect technology. Although its brightness is high enough, due to the lack of single sub pixel emission characteristics like OLED panels, there are still phenomena such as astigmatism when displaying fonts on a solid color background, and the contrast is far from pure as OLED. OLED can independently control a single pixel, and the entire pixel does not emit light under a pure black background, making it completely black and pure.
However, the new large screen MacBook Air will still use the LED screen currently used in MacBook Air products, and the OLED screen version of the MacBook Air will be available to consumers as early as next year. For users, OLED screens have better color performance and higher contrast, and their application in the MacBook Air series can comprehensively enhance the user experience.
