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 LG Gram Fold laptop offers a 17" 60Hz 500 nits 2560x1920 foldable touch OLED display (that's LGD's new tandem-stack display), an Intel Raptor Lake chipset (Core i5-1335U), 16 GB of RAM, 512 G of storage and Thunderbolt 4 connectivity.
The Gram Fold will launch in Korea in October 2023, for around $3,300.
HP's Spectre Foldable PC is a laptop that is based on a 17" 2560x1920 foldable OLED display. Other specifications include a 12th-Gen Intel Core i7-1250U CPU, Iris Xe graphics, 16 GB of RAM, 1 TB of SSD storage and a battery that should last for up to 12 hours.
The Spectre Foldable will ship soon, starting at $4,999.
The Lenovo Legion Slim 5 is a gaming laptop, that offers a 14" 120Hz VRR 2880x1800 AMOLED display, an AMD chipset (up to Ryzen 9 7940HS), NVIDIA GPU (up to RTX 4060), up to 64GB of memory, and 1TB of storage. The laptop has Lenovo's AI Engine Plus powered by an LA1 AI chip that helps to learn the gaming habits and maximize performance and battery.
The Legion Slim 5 will ship by the end of September 2023, starting at $1,439.
Lenovo's Yoga Air 14s, 2023 edition, is a thin laptop that offers a 14.5" 90hz 600nits 3K touch AMOLED display, a Ryzen 7-series chipset, 32GB of memory, 1TB SSD and a 70Wh battery.
Lenovo did not yet detail the price or shipping date of its latest laptop.
The Asus ExpertBook B9 OLED (B9403CVA) eco-friendly laptop offers a 14" 2560x1600 (WQXGA+) OLED display, Intel's 13-Gen Core chipsets, and a magnesium-lithium body produced using Thixomolding to reduce waste by 29% and manufacturing time by 75%. The laptop is also made of 70% post-industrial recycled metal. Asus says that this is the world's lightest business laptop at 990 grams.
Asus did not yet reveal the price or shipping date of its ExpertbBook OLED laptop.
The Robo & Kala 2-in-1 laptop is a tablet/laptop hybrid device that offers a 12.6" 600-nits 2.5K touch AMOLED display and is based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx Gen3 5nm chipset. The Windows 11 device offers up to 20 hours of battery life, is only 7.3 mm thick and weighs just 690 grams.
The company launched its product as a crowdfunding campaign, and following the success the laptop/tablet device can now be ordered online starting at $999.
Asus' 2023 OLED Zenbook range include three laptop devices. First up is the Zenbook S 13 OLED, which is said to be the thinnest 13.3" OLED laptop ever at 1 cm. It sports a new 13.3" 2.8K 550 nits AMOLED display, several chipset options up to Intel Core i7 1355U, up to 32GB RAM a 1 TB SSD. The Zenbook S 13 OLED weighs 1 Kg.
The second laptop is the Zenbook 14X OLED, that has a 14.5" 2.8K 120Hz OLED display. It offers chipsets up to Intel Core i9 H-series and Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3050 graphics.
Lenovo's ThinkPad X13 Gen 4 (regular edition, and Yoga edition) both have an optional 13.3" 2.8K AMOLED display and can eb powered by either Intel's latest 13th-Gen chipsets and integrated Intel Iris X graphics or AMD's Ryzen 7000 mobile chipsets and Radeon graphics.
The ThinkPad X13 Gen 4 will start shipping in July 2023 starting at around $1,250.
Lenovo's 2023 ThinkPad Z13 Gen 2 laptop offers either a 13.3" LCD or 2.8K OLED display, while the Z16 Gen 2 features a FHD or 4K AMOLED display. The laptops are powered by AMD's latest Ryzen 7000 series with integrated AMD Radeon GPU and offer up to 64GB of LPDDR5x RAM.
The ThinkPad Z13 and Z16 Gen 2 will ship in the summer of 2023, starting at around $1,750.
Samsung''s 2023 laptop series, the Galaxy Book 3 includes three models, all equipped with AMOLED displays. The Galaxy Book 3 Pro offers a 14" or 16" 2880x1800 120Hz Dynamic AMOLED 2X VRR display, and Intel's 13th-Gen Core i7 chipset.
The Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 has similar internal specifications, but only comes in 16" and is a convertible laptop that can act as a tablet, and so Samsung added integrated touch (OCTA) and S-Pen support. The Galaxy Book 3 Ultra offers the same display as the Book 3 (16" 2880x1800 120Hz VRR AMOLED) but has stronger specification as it is intended mainly for gaming.
