Report: MacBook Pro With OLED Display to Launch Late Next Year

Apple volition motorboat its archetypal MacBook Pro models with OLED displays successful precocious 2026, according to a caller study retired of Korea discussing the proviso of OLED panels.


Dealsite.co.kr reports that Samsung Display volition beryllium the sole supplier of OLED panels for the caller MacBook Pro models, acknowledgment to its dense concern successful Gen 8.6 OLED accumulation lines.

Gen 8.6 lines usage larger solid substrates conducive with laptop and show panels, and harvester oxide TFT exertion for debased powerfulness depletion and scalability, portion reducing manufacturing costs. The concern means Samsung is expected to comfortably conscionable Apple's request adjacent twelvemonth for OLED MacBook panels.

Several erstwhile rumors person indicated that Apple is processing MacBook Pro models with OLED displays. Last month, Omdia doubled down connected its 2026 timeframe for the archetypal MacBook models with OLED displays. That study did not notation the "Pro" moniker, but it is wide expected that OLED displays volition debut successful Apple's higher-end MacBook Pro models earlier coming to MacBook Air models.

When the MacBook Pro moves from mini-LED to OLED show technology, it volition summation respective advantages – brighter screens, deeper blacks with higher contrast, improved powerfulness ratio that tin widen artillery life, and different enhancements.

The power to OLED is expected to travel the MacBook Pro's archetypal large redesign since 2021. Apple is reportedly focusing connected delivering the thinnest imaginable device without compromising connected artillery beingness oregon large caller features.

It has besides been reported that the OLED MacBook Pro could diagnostic a pill-shaped oregon hole-punch cutout successful the show alternatively of a notch. This rumor is from December 2024, truthful it is unclear if it remains accurate, oregon if the alteration remains connected Apple's roadmap.

Last month, immoderate uncertainty emerged astir whether the archetypal OLED MacBook Pro would motorboat successful 2026, aft Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported – without offering a crushed – that Apple doesn't program to update immoderate Macs with M5 chips successful 2025. However, Gurman noted that the timeline is inactive taxable to change.

The existent M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max ‌MacBook Pro‌ models were announced successful October 2024 and released successful November 2024, truthful pushing the M5 models backmost to 2026 would spot Apple skipping a yearly refresh.

If Apple planned to motorboat the M5 ‌MacBook Pro‌ models successful 2026, that could spot the OLED exemplary pushed to 2027. Alternatively, Apple could debut the M5 ‌MacBook Pro‌ successful aboriginal 2026 and the OLED mentation with M6 chips successful precocious 2026, but that would beryllium unusual. Gurman has truthful acold kept quiescent connected whether the redesigned OLED MacBook Pro timeline has shifted arsenic well, but hopefully there's an update coming from him soon that volition corroborate this latest report.
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