Why are there no AMOLED laptops?


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I would think that by now there would be a few as AMOLED tends to use less power unless displaying lots of white. With OS X having a "dark mode" and Windows having some dark colors as well why has no one tried one to see how it sells?

 

I'd love to see the battery comparisons.

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Good idea.

 

AMOLED is awesome... yet it's far too expensive at the moment for 50" TVs.

 

It would be great for laptops... and even better for battery life.

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AMOLED may still have image retention or burn-in.  Not sure if they have gotten rid of it yet.

This and more battery intensive... samsung phones suffer from this greatly and also blue and white obliterate batteries...

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This and more battery intensive... samsung phones suffer from this greatly and also blue and white obliterate batteries...

With the ability to power only the pixels you need, that should not be the case.  I'd say that is just an issue with Samsung phones.

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AMOLED may still have image retention or burn-in.  Not sure if they have gotten rid of it yet.

Pretty sure burn-in is still a factor.

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AMOLED may still have image retention or burn-in. Not sure if they have gotten rid of it yet.

Burn in is still an issue.

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This and more battery intensive... samsung phones suffer from this greatly and also blue and white obliterate batteries...

The reason Samsung and Moto use AMOLED is because on average the display uses 10% less power than LED and the new panel in the S5 and Note4 uses 18% less power than the one in the Moto X, Nexus 6, and S4.

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Yup burn in would be the main reason.

And there IS the matter of screen-size - even notebooks are larger than tablets.

 

Even with touch-screens, the tech is NOT as advanced in the larger sizes (such as desktop AIOs) compared to merely Ultrabook based notebooks, let alone tablets or phablets), let alone cost of manufacture/price.

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I think it's mostly related to size and its ratio with price. Also, most laptop manufacturers are stingy, reason why we don't see many machines with IPS LCDs or high pixel density displays either (although thanks to Apple the latter has changed a bit).

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technically burnout when it comes to amoled,but yeah.

No.

 

Burn-in, considering you can place another color and it still shows fine, but with a shadow of what is normally there.  Pixels don't stack on pixels so....

 

Burn-out implies those pixels don't show anymore.

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I am pretty sure it has to be the size and cost.  too expensive on anything bigger then 6" smartphone.

yeah, cause those silly 100inch samsung curved are cheap :p

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And there IS the matter of screen-size - even notebooks are larger than tablets.

 

Even with touch-screens, the tech is NOT as advanced in the larger sizes (such as desktop AIOs) compared to merely Ultrabook based notebooks, let alone tablets or phablets), let alone cost of manufacture/price.

Considering that we currently have a 55" OLED TV (which was costing about

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No.

 

Burn-in, considering you can place another color and it still shows fine, but with a shadow of what is normally there.  Pixels don't stack on pixels so....

 

Burn-out implies those pixels don't show anymore.

 

No, it's a burn out, not a total burnout but a slight and gradual burnout.

 

with plasma's it's burn in because bright pixels get "stuck".

 

on a OLED the pixels every time you fire them up(well sub pixels) lose a bit of their life, and as they slowly die the also lose brightness. so areas on the screen that regularly has bright text, like white system text on a phone, will burn out faster making the pixels dimmer. So when you show a white background, the system text show as shadows. on a black screen you won't see it. on a plasma  with burn in it's the opposite, TV logo's will show on dark screens, actually they will probably show on anything.

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I believe they are kinda thick (the panel not the screen) at that size to be rigid enough.  I think it would end up with a thick laptop to be durable enough to survive daily commutes.

I think you meant thin and not thick?

 

OLED is the thinnest display tech. that you can get, it is so thin that Samsung have a flexible OLED mobile display prototype:

 

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Can even take a hammering and not break :D

 

 

But yes the non-flexible ones might be a bit prone to "cracking" but it will all come down to the build quality of laptops and as you said, increase the thickness a bit, which I would be happy with.

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This and more battery intensive... samsung phones suffer from this greatly and also blue and white obliterate batteries...

 

It is the processor and processing that kills the samsung phones more than the led.  Apps will run without being shutdown in a locked screen, my pocket gets hot if I don't shut down my game after I am done. 

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It is the processor and processing that kills the samsung phones more than the led.  Apps will run without being shutdown in a locked screen, my pocket gets hot if I don't shut down my game after I am done. 

wouldn't that be more android-related, than samsung itself...  (very off topic :p )

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