M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a red KSF phosphor film

I’ve noticed similar “mini” news stories trickle out after Apple’s announcements. Does this happen organically, or does PR drop tidbits like this to select sources?

It seems like a very specific thing for a reporter to ask and find out about.

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.

That's my interpretation too, people start finding out stuff when they get their hands on it, and each has their own interests.

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.

> the Tweet (X? Blurp? What do we call them now?)

They're officially just called "Posts" now. It's a hell of a downgrade from how distinctive the old terms were, no wonder people still call them Tweets.

Community Notes was also set to be called Birdwatch originally, continuing the bird pun theme.

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.

Maybe you can take some solace from the proliferation of terms for what were once universally referred to as daughterboards.

> Look at the Tweet (X? Blurp? What do we call them now?)

X-crement

Xits

xeet, with the x pronounced like Nahuatl: "sh"

https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/resources/PronouncingNahuat...

The M3 line with 256Gb storage had a single SSD NAND chip which made it measurably slower than the M2 series with the same amount. Although irrelevant for most daily work it was a regression which seems to be fixed in the M4 line. Even then, I presume such a bit of bad news would trigger people looking for 'the best spec' to buy the storage upgrade.

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.

It's also the first step in professional display calibration.

Now you can say things like, "I just xeeted" or "Did you see that xeet?"

Judges would have also accepted "X-ude".