Apple will launch its first touchscreen OLED MacBook Pros on or around October 27, according to Bloomberg. For teams due a MacBook refresh, that puts a three-week hold on the table for a machine whose price and ship date are still unknown.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple's OLED iPad mini will start near $799, $200 above the current $599 model. Any budget that assumes $599 for the next mini will come up $200 short on each unit.
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The ROG Xbox Ally X20 keeps the Ally X chip, memory and storage, and charges $300 more for an OLED panel and the cooling it needed. The $2,499 bundle is the stranger number.
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Mark Gurman says Apple's OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro will get much lighter but not significantly thinner than the current model. Staff who carry a laptop every day get most of the benefit, so a fleet refresh can be sorted by who actually travels with one.
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Apple's first touchscreen, tandem-OLED MacBook Pro is due by the end of November with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. For fleet buyers, the decision depends on who carries the laptop every day and whose work can wait for the next chip generation.
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TCL's P80 Ultra moves the matte Nxtpaper screen onto OLED for the first time
TCL's P80 Ultra is the first phone to pair matte Nxtpaper with OLED, adding the always-on display earlier models lacked. People who want a matte phone no longer give up screen quality for it, though they still give up speed and camera quality.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple's first touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro could arrive as early as October. The laptop reportedly keeps Apple's existing M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, so for teams buying Macs this fall, waiting is a decision about the display.
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LG's $3,499 Gram Pro 16 saves under an ounce against a 13-inch MacBook Air
Gizmodo's review puts the top Gram Pro 16 at $3,499 with no discrete graphics and battery life it calls middling, roughly $499 a seat above a similarly specced ThinkPad X1 Carbon. The weight it wins back is under an ounce.
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Omdia's miniLED forecast is doing all the work in the two-tier MacBook theory
Apple is expected to show an OLED touchscreen Mac within weeks, and the case for the cheaper MacBook Pro surviving beside it rests on a single panel-supply line item, while the prices attached to both tiers are still somebody's guess.
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