“We’ve been hearing for years now about Apple’s never-quite-realized intentions to ship devices featuring Sharp IGZO displays. Now a new report says they’re coming to the 2014 MacBook line,” John Brownlee reports for Cult of Mac.
“According to new Korean reports, Sharp is looking to supply both MacBook and iPad-sized IGZO panels to Apple, with LG Display joining the supply chain to help out, with the company upgrading its existing AMOLED and LCD lines to be compatible with IGZO manufacturing,” Brownlee reports. “If this rumor pans out, it’s great news. Imagine Haswell Retina MacBook Pros with IGZO displays. That’s not just 12 hour battery life: if Haswell MacBook Pros can do to the 2014 models’ battery life what it did to 2013’s MacBook Airs, and if IGZO can cut the Retina display power draw in half, that’s potentially 24 hours of battery life.”
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Thats why Sansung gave Sharp 120 million to spy on Apple.
with 120 million-of- dollars, Samsung should R&D a WOW products instead of spying on Apple.
Samsung spying on apple, hahahahah….
Go visit Samsung’s R&D labs and you’ll see screens you only dreamed about. (see through and bendable, etc).
This story is a joke.
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As a person who owns a Mac and a PC, I have to admit my Windows machine can sit in the corner for months on a single charge.
My sole PC laptop’s battery goes dead flat in about a week of sitting in the corner switched completely off.
That windows machine probably runs OSX better than mac hardware does. 😉
Won’t Samsung be able to design products that use IGZO tech much faster than Apple can? Just like they walked in and took the smartphone business away from Apple, they can pretty much do the same with notebooks if they really wanted to do so. In the short run, isn’t it really just a matter of how much a company really wants to put into winning an industry over in order to do so? I’m not up to speed on how good an OS Windows 8 is, but Samsung can easily reverse-engineer any product Apple can make and build it for less. That’s why Wall Street claims any Apple product can be easily commoditized and it leaves Apple no future protection.
If Apple had been smart, they’d have worked some exclusive agreement with Sharp for only Apple to have access to IGZO tech for say, a period of six months before releasing it to the general computing industry. Apple needs to be able to buy exclusivity if it can possibly arrange to do so.
What is more questionable in the possible move to IGZO-based matrices is that they are worse in viewing angles (and sometimes in colours), than current technology.
Lets see if Apple will be able to overcome that.
No new MacBook Pro this year.
Sure, they’re coming. They’ve already been detected in the wild. Patience, It won’t be long.
Using less power is great but at the cost of what? Is the colour right? What is the refresh time? How long before a pixel burns out? How stable is the colour over time? Is it visible in sunlight?
We can get that up to 36 hours if apple would ditch intel and make their own CPUs
Dont be a fool. The PowerPC chips were power hungry behemoths. The fastest G5s required water cooling.
Apple do not sell enough desktop computers to make R&D on their desktop chips worth while. They should keep making the chips for mobile devices and use off the shelf parts for desktop computers to remain competitive.
crikey! my MBA is only 2 years old. But I want that 24 hours battery live MBA.
Ya know… Power savings is great and all.. But I would, as a power user and a lover of being mobile, love to see more processing power. Battery life is great and all and I get it, but where is the beef baby!?