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Upcoming 12.9-Inch iPad Pro Supplies Could Be Limited Due to Mini-LED Production Issues
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Is the a buyer’s guide on lgrumors.com ?
No kidding aside, just get what you need when you need it.
There's tradeoffs OLED looks better, but mini led screens (LCD with segmented backlighting) are cheaper, more efficient, and can have better brightness and colour reproduction.
If you want headaches and eye strain caused by PWM, go OLED; or healthy eyes and a clear mind, go mini-LED.
Never have I ever experienced that with Samsung displays. Perhaps Samsung doesn't give Apple it's best products? 🤔
For anyone that wouldn’t get AppleCare, then there’s never any need to get AppleCare.
Manufacturing defects don’t require AppleCare, you just take it back to get replaced.
LCD and mini-LED use PWM too. Better to find out the low end Hz that PWM operates at since it varies with brightness then determine if the person is sensitive to it or not. For example, iPhone 12 Pro PWM operates at 60Hz at ~21% brightness so it can be more noticeable then low of 120Hz of the Galaxy S21 Ultra.
OLED gives the best image quality. Blacks are black, high contrast, and no light bleed.
The biggest difference is that OLED has no backlighting, each pixel is does it's own thing. Blacks can be truly black, there's no bleed through, and there's higher contrast. At least with respect to TVs they generally don't get as bright as LEDs or mini-LED TVs. If you look at LEDs in relatively dark environments there will be bleed through, the screen won't get entirely dark and there may be lighter and darker areas. IMO, the differences are most apparent in relatively dark environments. If you watch movies in dark rooms they really shine. In brighter environments I'd say the differences are less dramatic. OLEDs are more expensive and can suffer from burn in. I'm still using a 9.7" Pro and still think the screen looks damn good. Perhaps I'm just not very particular. The current screens look great and either mini LED or OLED should offer a really excellent experience.
I’m not sure about Samsung, but I know Apple uses PWM for its OLED iPhone displays but not for its LCD iPhone display in the SE (2020). That is part of the reason I have stayed with the SE.
Good points. I have found exact PWM information difficult to come by and I’m not sure why Apple uses PWM say with the iPhone 12 Pro but not the iPhone SE (2020).
MiniLED absolutely doesn't have more advantages to OLED. That's an asinine statement.
A VESA TrueBlack 500 OLED panel easily destroys VESA HDR1000 devices in overall picture quality. Most consumer MiniLEDs don't even have enough zones to be close to matching the quality of OLED panels in contrast. Then there's the backlit bleeding & so on w/ MiniLED panels. MiniLED pannels cannot match the response times of an OLED that's far superior. OLED panels can be far thinner (& rollable). The latter matters for a portable device, and what makes your statement so asinine.
When it comes to the top 10 panels of all-time in picture quality, it's overwhelmingly dominated by OLED & MicroLED displays, not MiniLED. A MiniLED with enough zones & nits that can come close to rivaling & succeeding *some* OLED panels is astronomically more expensive than those OLED panels.
The core advantages MiniLED panels have over OLED panels are technical longevity & higher (sustained & unsustained) nits; Nits != HDR performance.
I'm typing this on a Pro Display XDR now, & the monitor isn't even close to the picture quality & contrast I get from an LG OLED TV overall aside from PPI. It simply doesn't have enough zones (in fact, Asus PA32UCG attempts to correct this). I use it primarily for its far higher PPI (32" 6K vs 48"/65" 4K) when I'm doing professional/general computing.
The Pro Display XDR's 1000 sustained nits is what truly makes it stand out (Asus PGUCG32 will be the only other mainstream pro monitor to have this) as well; I suspect Apple puts a premium on that for uniqueness/marketing reasons towards using MiniLED for its iPad Pro & sensibly soon its iMacs.
But MiniLED > OLED overall for a portable device? I find that blasphemous.
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To get the benefits you‘d have to be sitting in a dark room. So for portable devices it’s actually the opposite - the slightly-superior blacks of the OLED are largely wasted, and the miniLED’s brightness and color advantages bear fruit.
I looked in there recently and didn't see any iPads either, but thought it was an anomaly (or that pending a drop of a new model, people had scarfed up all the refurbs). Didn't realize lack of refurbs in the iPad category was "a thing" in general.
If that's the case then I guess I could be joining the ranks of the bleary-eyed trying to snag a new iPad Pro first thing on April 30th. But I'll more likely wait awhile until initial demand subsides.
I remember the fun of driving 180 miles RT to and from a retail store on launch day of the first iPhone in 2007 and treasure the memory, but I've become a bit jaded (and way older!) since then about my gear buys.
You don't have to sit in a dark room to rep the benefits of individually lit pixels of an OLED panel; a dark room makes it the most prominent. Such characteristics of an OLED panel enables superior HDR picture quality.
That's part of a reason VESA True Black 500 OLED panel > VESA HDR 1000 LED panel.
For outdoors use, MiniLED higher nit rating enables more available/consistent viewing under bright conditions. Color advantages is not accurate. Higher nits does not directly correlate to a color advantage–especially overall picture quality.
Your understate the benefits of a brighter screen when outside. It can be the difference between actually usable and basically unviewable.
And nowhere did I state or imply that the miniLED brightness advantage was why or what led to it having a color gamut advantage. They can exist separately.
And nowhere did I state or imply that the miniLED brightness advantage was why or what led to it having a color gamut advantage. They can exist separately.