Apple & HP Make Switch to LED Notebooks

So bright and shiney

Published on January 4, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

Starting in mid-2007, you will be able to purchase notebooks from Apple and HP that feature not the same old LCD screens you're used to, but screens powered by LED technology, much like new HDTV sets from Samsung. These new displays while consuming more power and being more costly to produce, show improvements in a number of areas such as color reproduction, uniformity, contrast ratio and brightness. It is assumed that any LED-based notebooks from these companies will be largely targeted at upper-tier multimedia consumers who will pay extra for a higher quality display on their notebook.

Read more at ArsTechnica.

Comments

ZubaZ

on Jan 04, 2007

I'm still using 15' CRTs.

The price will come down sooner or later and there'll I'll be, three years behind again

Dark-Star

on Jan 04, 2007

Count me in! That's one thing that bugs me about current LCD displays.. 16.7 Million color (24bit) doesn't cut it for color matching.

Randahl

on Jan 04, 2007

With all the current hubaloo about battery life, not to mention certain exploding batteries, I think it would behoove the notebook industry to focus on what needs fixing rather than putting more strain on an already knackered power source!

Oh wait!

That won't make them rich!

Or would it?

scorpNZ

on Jan 05, 2007

So are they saying it's better to use plasma for monitors or for both monitors and TV's,now that i think about it there is a difference in colour rendering when viewing LCD and plasma TV's in the shops

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