Apple released a white paper on their new display for the new OLED laptops. What do we think about the display? Is it the most accurate consumer display yet?

4:47We've got a great crew today. We're going to answer those questions, so make sure you plop those in. We'll talk about that more on how you can do that in just a bit. Courtney, what do we got? Well, starting us off here from Minneapolis, Minnesota, T.J. Asher. asked the question, Apple released a white paper on their new display for the new OLED laptops.

5:10What do we think about the display? Is it the most accurate consumer display ever? And he has a link there. Well, that's what Apple says. What do you think, Courtney? Well, I imagine it depends on how you calibrate with your software. So it is a closed system, so maybe they have a good handle on that. I just took a brief look at the white paper,

5:33and it's fairly informative. A couple of unique things that they're doing, they have this dual layer. They have, rather than most LED displays, OLEDs that have a single red, green, and, I mean, two greens, one red, one blue pixel. This one has two LED panels, OLED panels kind of superimposed, and they have this very strange arrangement of the pixels with some bigger pixels and some smaller pixels.

6:01and lots of pixels. And they do this, they double up that display to give you more brightness, to achieve more brightness because they say they can get to a thousand nits. And off an OLED panel, usually that's pretty hard to obtain without frying the smaller, you know, frying the individual pixels and shortening their lives. It also has what the equivalent of IPS is in an LCD

6:26in plane switching where there's an individual transistor for each of the OLED pixels. rather than a matrix drive or something where it's driven off a row and column addressing. So there's an individual transistor at each pixel. So that's cool. They also talk about their anti-reflective coating on the inside of the glass. So there's a fluoride coating on the inside of the glass to eliminate inside reflections between the OLED pixels in the front glass.

6:57so although they have a multi-layered glass now for that touchscreen they may have a lot little more diffusion and a little less sharpness may be coming out since they are putting an additional capacitive coating on the outside of the glass so i haven't read that part yet but that's what i'm assuming a cover glass is pro led xtr has reflectance of 1.0 percent

7:21Lower than traditional OLED displays due to coasts. I was talking about the anti-reflective coating on the inside and the outside, plus they put that little texture coating on the outside to have a good feel for those touchscreens, you know. So it remains to be seen how good it is as far as accuracy when we test it. We'll know. Yeah, I mean, typically their displays are incredibly accurate.

7:49Like even the iPhone is, you know, widely known that the iPhone displays, they're all color calibrated from the factory and they're supposed to be very, very good as a reference display. And this one, Apple says it's their most accurate display they've ever made. And I would probably believe it. I mean, the fact that they've released, the fact that they're so loud and proud about it, that they felt that they needed to release a technical document to really explain what they're doing with it.

8:14It clearly shows that the engineering team is really proud of what they've been able to accomplish. So, Ronnie, what do you think of this? Obviously, this is a long document that we just had a link to, so I'm sure you probably haven't read the document. But what do you think of the fact that Apple has actually made public all the technical details of how this display is designed

8:33and how it's color calibrated and how you can even customize the color profiles? That was the other thing that I saw. I think it looks like they have a new utility, and it's aimed at people working in video production that can create their own profiles for this thing. It's definitely a new thing from Apple. Not that it's new that they create good stuff.