OLED displays provide better image quality, a low response time, low power consumption and a thinner design. While OLEDs are already very popular in smartphones, wearables, VR headsets and TVs, burn-in challenges and high production costs have resulted in slower adoption in the laptop market.
In 2019 all that changed as Samsung Display started producing 15.6" 4K AMOLED displays for the laptop market, and several leading makers (including HP, Lenovo and Dell) started to offer high-end OLED laptops. Since then SDC added more OLED laptop displays to its lineup, and other OLED producers (such as EDO and BOE) started to offer laptop panels as well.
In 2020 Lenovo became the first company to offer a laptop with a foldable OLED. The ThinkPad X1 Fold features a 13.3" 2048x1536 foldable OLED display that is produced by LG Display. The display takes up the entire interior of this this device, and this is what will likely to be just a first design that may eventually become the future of mobile computing.
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Following is a list of laptops with OLED displays:
The 2020 edition of HP's Spectre x360 14 is a convertible laptop that features a 13.5-inch 3000x2000 (yes, that's a 3:2 aspect ratio) AMOLED display. This is the first laptop that features this specific OLED display.
The Spectre x360 14 features Intel's 11-Gen core chipset and the company's Evo platform. It is now shipping starting at $1,200.
The Asus ZenBook Pro (UX581) is a unique laptop that offers two screens - an SDC 15.6" 4K (3840x2160) AMOLED main display and another, smaller 14" 4K-width LCD display that is placed above the keyboard.
Asus' multi-tasking OLED laptop is now shipping in the US for $2,200.
The Asus ZenBook Pro Duo 15 (UX582) is the company's second generation dual display laptop, with a main 15.6-inch 4K AMOLED display, and a secondary 14.09-inch UHD LCD. Other features include a Core i7/i9 chipset, Nvidia RTX 3070 chipset and up to 1TB of storage.
The ZenBook Pro Duo 15 OLED will start shipping in April 2021. The first-gen ASUS ZenBook Pro UX581 is now shipping for $2,200.
Lenovo's Yoga Slim 7i Pro is a 14-inch laptop that in early 2021 received an OLED screen option - with a 14-inch 2880x1800 (2.8K) 90Hz AMOLED display. Other features include an Intel Core i7 chipset (or alternatively an AMD Ryzen 7), Nvidia GeForce MX450 GPU and up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD storage.
Lenovo did not yet detail the price and availabiliy of the yoga Slim 7i Pro OLED.
Razer's Blade Stealth 13 (2020 edition) is a high-end gaming laptop that features a 13-inch display, optionally a Full-HD AMOLED. Other features include Intel's latest Core i7 chipset, 16GB of RAM and a GeForce GTX 1650 Ti GPU.
The Blade Stealth 13 2020 edition with the OLED display is now shipping starting at $1,999.
The 2020 Asus ZenBook Pro 15 (UX535) is said to be the world's smallest laptop that features a 15.6" 4K OLED display. It also features 10th-generation Intel Core i7 and i5 H-series processors.
The ZenBook Pro 15 will ship later in 2020.
Asus 2020 convertible laptops family, the ZenBook Flip, include three models with optional OLED displays. The top-of-the-line ZenBook Flip S (UX371) and the ZenBook Flip 13 (UX363) feature a "NanoEdge" 13.3" UHD AMOLED display with a wide, 100 percent DCI-P3 color gamut. The laptops feature Intel's Evo branding.
The ZenBook Flip 15 (UX564) is a larger laptop that features a 15-inch 4K OLED NanoEdge display.
Dell's 2020 G7 gaming laptop features Intel's 9th-Gen Core i9 processor, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2080 GPU, a 512GB SSD drive, 16 GB of RAM, and Samsung's 15.6" UHD (3840x2160) 60Hz AMOLED display.
Dell's 2020 G7 laptops are now shipping, starting at $1,899.
The Alienware m15 gaming laptop, now in its 2020 edition (the m15 R3) feature a 60Hz 15.6" 4K OLED display (or alternatively a 300 Hz IPS LCD one). The m15 R3 features Intel's 10th-gen CPUs (up to the 8-Core Core i9-10980HK) and Nvidia or AMD's Radeon GPUs.
The Alienware m15 R3 started shipping in May 2020, you can find it on eBay.
HP's Envy 15 is a high-end laptop that features SDC's 15.6" 4K AMOLED display. Other specifications include Intel's H-Series CPUs (up to Core i9), NVIDIA's GPUs (up to RTX 2060 Mqx-Q), up to 32 GB of RAM and 2TB of storage.
The HP ENVY 15 2020 laptops started shipping at June 2020, starting at around $1,899 for the OLED models.
