http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/ Engadget Comments for Lenovo is possibly maybe thinking about an OLED ThinkPad T500 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/Jun 24th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/Jun 24th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/Jun 24th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/
OLED display drivers (the hardware chips, not the software driver) have little tricks in them like reducing the brightness of large white areas to keep the power usage down and to prevent heat buildup because the heat makes the pixels burn out even quicker. This circuitry is called ACL. The Sony OLED TV does this, for example. It's quite a shocker to see your super amazing, very expensive OLED TV dim a window as you make it larger.]]>Jun 24th 2009 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/
but what is about the quality,refresh rate and how much glassy is the oled screen.

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All of this is peanuts next to the problem of the pixels aging too quickly to me. I'm using a 3 year old laptop right now, I'd like my future laptops to last as long. Pixel life is improving right now, that and power are the biggest things the OLED companies are working on at the moment. Maybe in a couple years they'll shed these problems and be able to compete with LCD.]]>Jun 24th 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/Jun 24th 2009 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/Jun 24th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/Jun 24th 2009 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/Jun 24th 2009 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/Jun 24th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/
Right now, if you want to go check out an OLED screen, I believe the Samsung Impression on AT&T uses OLED technology.]]>Jun 24th 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/
I bring up apple because lenovo and apple both produce some of the best laptops marketed for each OS. I see lenovo as an equal to Apple right now because of their amazing quality.I just can't look at dell right now as a ultra high quality innovator.... in my opinion Dell (and HP...) should stop flooding the market with lots of mediocre machines and produce some cost effective computers that are streamlined in manufacturing so that they can bring top notch specs to the main stream market. ]]>Jun 24th 2009 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/
And these power problems with with hacks like ACL (automated current limit) built into the displays that compromise display quality just to get the power down to still far worse than LCD.]]>Jun 24th 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/Jun 24th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/lenovo-is-possibly-maybe-thinking-about-an-oled-thinkpad-t500/
Last I heard there were still some longevity obstacles to overcome for long-hour-session devices like TVs, monitors, etc, even though Sony has released their TV thing out on the market, there were some concerns there too.

Is OLED sunlight-viewable? Is this discussion premature? Etc.

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