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15-inch, 4K OLED laptops are coming thanks to new displays from Samsung:
Larger OLED laptop screens are coming sooner than we anticipated. Samsung Displays announced that it has made a 15.6-inch 4K laptop display and will begin producing the panels next month. The company plans on providing them to other manufacturers to put into their premium notebooks.
[...] Samsung's 15.6-inch display has a brightness range of 0.0005 to 600 nits, and its spectrum of 34 million colors is double that of similar, 15-inch LCD panels. Samsung claims that its panel can produce blacks that are 200 times darker than those of LCD panels, and whites will be more than twice as bright. These attributes contribute to the HDR capabilities of the panel, and the company claims that the panel passes VESA's new DisplayHDR TrueBlack standard.
The cost? Don't ask.
Also at Engadget.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @10:50PM
The MBP has changed in the last ten years. Unless you subscribe to Apple's "thinner at any cost" mantra, however, none of the change has been for the better.
The display resolution was increased, so a decent-quality 1680x1050 native resolution has been replaced by a really sharp effective 1440x900. (So effectively a step backward. I replaced my 2008 MBP specifically to obtain the higher-res screen when it was introduced.)
Batteries are glued in, so you can't easily replace them.
RAM is soldered, so you have to guess up front how much you'll need down the road and then pay Apple's jacked-up price for it.
Storage, same thing, though they went down the proprietary connector road first to stop you from being able to upgrade later.
Standard, commonly-used ports? Gone. (Apparently there's big money to be made in dongle sales.)
Magsafe connector? Gone. (It's saved me from disaster a few times.)
Decent keyboard? Gone in favor of one that can be effectively rendered useless by a couple of crumbs.
Tactile function/feature keys? Nope, apparently the world needs an emoji bar far more than it needs volume and brightness controls that you can find without looking.
And now it turns out they intentionally chose a crap cable to connect the display to the computer, so owners of 2016/17/18 MBPs will eventually have to pay hundreds of dollars to replace a complete display assembly because a $6 cable fails.
And the price? Jeebus, a maxed-out MBP is over $6000! I hate Win10 as much as the next person, but any number of better-configured Windows machines can be found considerably more-reasonably priced. Sure, they won't be paper-thin, but in a "Pro" machine, that's a drawback, not a feature.
Until Apple remembers that the "Pro" in MacBook Pro is short for "Professional" and starts offering machines that satisfy the name, I have no plans of replacing my ten year old MBP.