Report: Apple Developing 24-Inch OLED iMac With 600 Nits Brightness

Apple is moving connected a 24-inch iMac featuring an OLED display, with the purpose of completing improvement arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2027, claims a caller study retired of Korea.


According to The Elec, Apple has sent requests for accusation to Samsung Display and LG Display regarding improvement of a 24-inch OLED sheet for the iMac. Current 24-inch iMacs usage a 4.5K Retina display, which is an LCD sheet with LED backlighting.

The specs seemingly being discussed see 600 nits of brightness and a pixel density of 218 PPI. If accurate, that would lucifer the existent 24-inch iMac's solution but present a 20% brightness boost implicit the existing 4.5K Retina display's 500-nit maximum, making it equivalent to the brightness of Apple's Studio Display – though that besides uses an inferior LCD panel.

OLED show exertion benefits from respective different advantages beyond brighter screens, specified arsenic deeper blacks with higher contrast, improved powerfulness efficiency, and different enhancements.

This is the archetypal study we've seen suggesting Apple plans to bring OLED exertion to its all-in-one desktop lineup. The institution has already committed to OLED displays for aboriginal MacBook Pro models, with 14-inch and 16-inch versions expected to participate accumulation adjacent twelvemonth utilizing Samsung Display's 8th-generation IT OLED manufacturing line. OLED versions of its MacBook Air models are expected to follow.

For the iMac display, some Samsung and LG Display are expected to suggest their respective large-format OLED technologies alternatively than the RGB OLED method Apple traditionally prefers. Samsung would apt transportation its quantum dot OLED panels, portion LG Display would connection its achromatic OLED solution. Both manufacturers are reportedly processing 5-stack configurations that adhd an other greenish furniture to amended brightness compared to existent 4-stack designs.

The study suggests Apple prefers RGB OLED, wherever airy and colour make astatine the subpixel level, but this exertion seemingly hasn't yet scaled reliably to the 20-30 inch scope needed for desktop displays. Both sheet makers are said to beryllium exploring RGB OLED arsenic a longer-term option.

Apple aims to implicit iMac OLED sheet improvement by 2027 oregon 2028, but the finished merchandise could motorboat aft that timeline. A caller but abstracted study has claimed Apple is processing a high-end iMac featuring the M5 Max chip, but determination is presently nary denotation that OLED is destined for this rumored model. Apple could refresh the 24-inch iMac with an updated M5 spot astatine immoderate constituent adjacent year.
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