Look at the Tweet (X? Blurp? What do we call them now?) - it's got the spectrum of the panel, comparing previous and newer panels.

If you know what you're looking for in those, you can identify a lot of different phosphor configurations just by the particular shape of the RGB peaks - the older ones have a distinctive multi-peaked red emission that I've seen in various LED bulbs as well over the years.

I doubt Apple mentioned it to anyone. Applying a spectrometer to any new light emitting device is just the sort of thing some people enjoy doing.

Many people remain fascinated by Apple and the small choices that (traditionally) give their products a sense of careful and attentive design and engineering.

So there's both a supply of people eager to pick their products apart and a market of people eager to hear about all the little details and secrets.

While Apple probably does seed some stories intentionally, as their PR teams are sharp, they don't need to be doing so for swarms of these reports to pop up after announcements and first shipments.

It could simply be the people are now getting their hands on them and testing them for things that Apple didn’t specifically say in their announcements.

I think Apple does not specify to give themselves flexibility to change. It’s not sure everyone will get the same panel.

I think Apple doesn’t communicate it because it makes some of the laptops with „the same” spec better and some worse.

I remember that was the case with ssds some time ago - some of the macbooks had a better one, some had a slightly worse one.

I'm pretty sure apple is just a marketing machine. They have pro apple posts and smear campaigns on all samsung forums. Main stream media marketing but also guerrilla marketing on forums, social media, even newspaper comments section. I only see this kind of thing from russian propaganda.

> And something I've learned is that red vision varies by a fair amount from person to person.

Is there vision tests similar to audio tests where they figure out one's individual responses to different wavelengths of light? Super neat.

It would be cool to simulate different people's vision, not just colour-blindness but the more subtle variations.

It shouldn't make a difference. The film is illuminated by a blue LED and constantly glows uniformly yellow, which is the same mechanism as the white LEDs in a traditional display (blue emitter illuminates yellow phosphor coating). The LCD filters this to make specific pixels and would be more responsible. I worked for a now defunct QD company.

Notebookcheck says no. Their M4 Pro only did 5-10% better than last year which is still bad.

> latest Cd-free QD films are very efficient, feature as good or better color gamut and better motion performance

Possibly yes.

So far, the answer anecdotally is no, at least not in situations where lit pixels are moved quickly into black areas. In practice, my obnoxious green text black background terminal was kind of gross to scroll, but haven't experimented much with others yet. Playing games has thus far been fine, scrolling in other contexts is fine for practical purposes. Happy to update this if you want after I ruin my new MacBook by experimenting more

Was phosphor afterglow ever an issue with LCDs? Just wondering

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They source from a combination of Samsung, LG, and BOE (Chinese display manufacturer). The way the arrangement typically works is that manufacturers will send Apple preproduction samples and Apple will decide which are worth using for upcoming SKUs. The manufacturer will build out production facilities to meet that demand and whatever specs Apple wants. Apple may also help with investment or R&D to develop products to meet feature roadmap targets and increase supplier competition. It's a very dangerous game for the manufacturers.

is OLED unequivocally better than IPS?

Doesn’t OLED pixel layout not line up with modern text rendering engines? At least that’s what I believe I’ve read from reports on banding around text on Windows in particular that makes long-running text work a problem.

I cannot fathom why someone would create an account to post something so inane, so I'm guessing this is a bad attempt at farming account reputation.

It's actually a technical term, not marketing term this time :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dot

interesting, We have a failed Samsung QD TV and when we called for a technical support the guy correctly guessed the screen issue as if he has seen that many times before. What makes them unreliable? The problem isn't even in the QD film itself but the LED array, an LED fails and shorts then the other LEDs start working at higher voltage and overheat and causing cascading effect where the problem starts as small and develops into unusable.