Report: Subsequent-gen Professional Show XDR to have quantum dot show

Final week, analyst Ross Younger revealed that the brand new M4 MacBook Professional is the primary Apple system to make use of new quantum dot show expertise.

In a comply with up weblog submit, Younger says that this identical expertise will even make its solution to the next-generation Professional Show XDR.

Earlier M-series MacBook Professional fashions used a pink KSF phosphor movie to allow the miniLED backlighting to supply a wider colour gamut than would usually be potential. The brand new M4 fashions, nonetheless, use a quantum dot movie that provides higher colour gamut and higher movement efficiency, based on Younger.

On the Show Provide Chain Consultants web site this week, Younger elaborated on this change and famous that the identical show expertise can be anticipated to come back to the Professional Show XDR:

Now that Apple has adopted [quantum dot] movies within the MacBook Professional, it will likely be fascinating to see in the event that they exchange KSF movies and KSF phosphors in different Apple merchandise. KSF movies are present in earlier MiniLED MacBook Professional’s and the Mac Professional Show XDR. We anticipate the subsequent model of the Mac Professional Show to undertake it.

Different Apple merchandise that use on-chip KSF phosphors in an edge-lit design embrace the MacBook Air, iPad Air, Mac Studio Show, and so on. QDs possible received’t provide any potential value financial savings vs. on-chip KSF phosphors, but when Apple tried to standardize on wider colour gamuts throughout all their merchandise reminiscent of Adobe RGB + P3, it might make sense for them to make this modification.

There aren’t some other particulars on what to anticipate from the next-generation Professional Show XDR, neither is there a timeline for when it could be launched. Rumors of an up to date Professional Show XDR have ebbed and flowed through the years.

In December 2022, Mark Gurman reported that Apple was engaged on a next-gen Professional Show XDR with an built-in Apple Silicon chip. For context, Apple’s Studio Show options an A13 Bionic chip for issues like Heart Stage and Spatial Audio help.

In April 2023, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported that Apple was creating a brand new 27-inch exterior show with mini-LED display screen expertise. The present Professional Show XDR, nonetheless, incorporates a 32-inch panel.

The Professional Show XDR was launched in December 2019 alongside the Mac Professional. Apple has continued promoting it since then with none updates or value modifications.

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