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

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151 points zdw | 3 comments | 16 Nov 24 00:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.674s | source
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newZWhoDis ◴[16 Nov 24 01:38 UTC] No.42153389[source]▶
I don’t care how much they improve the CPUs, not upgrading before OLED
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imbnwa ◴[16 Nov 24 03:19 UTC] No.42153844[source]▶
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.
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1. ipsum2 ◴[16 Nov 24 03:26 UTC] No.42153886[source]▶
People read text on the OLED screen of the iPad Pro all the time.
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2. imbnwa ◴[16 Nov 24 04:57 UTC] No.42154408[source]▶
Yeah think its a ClearType issue[0] specifically then

[0]https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/25595

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3. jpgvm ◴[16 Nov 24 05:08 UTC] No.42154456[source]▶
Freetype also doesn't do the right thing on RGBW at least. Reading code in the repo suggests it's possible to reconfigure it to work properly with the Harmony algorithm but I haven't worked out how yet. If anyone knows how to sponsor efforts to fix this I would totally contribute to that.

A separate problem is that I don't think there is a standard way for monitors to communicate the subpixel layout in such a way the font rendering engine will have access to it. That seems like a pretty big oversight when introducing these in the first place.