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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 | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 00:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. cosmic_cheese ◴[16 Nov 24 05:42 UTC] No.42154603[source]▶
Shouldn’t be an issue under macOS for the most part, which has used grayscale antialiasing for several years since subpixel AA isn’t of much benefit with HiDPI displays and complicates text rendering considerably.

If there are any problems, it’ll probably be with cross platform software that doesn't use native text rendering and assumes RGB subpixel arrangements instead of obeying the system.