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:
Samsung latest Chromebook, the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus offers a 15.6" FHD AMOLED display, an Intel Core 3 100U chipset, 8 GB of RAM, and 256 GB of storage and a battery life of 13 hours. This is the thinnest and lightest Chromebook ever, at 1.17Kg and 11.8 mm.
The Galaxy Chromebook Plus will ship by the end of October 2024, for around $700.
Samsung's Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 is a convertable Copilot+ laptop, that offers a 16" 120Hz 2880x1800 AMOLED display (produced by SDC), a Series 2 Intel Core Ultra chipset, S Pen, 16 GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and up to 1TB of SSD storage.
The Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 will ship by the end of September 2024 globally, starting at around $2,250.
Lenovo's Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition is a lightweight laptop (at 980 grams) that offers a 14" 120Hz 400 nits 2880x1800 AMOLED display, up to Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake chipset, Intel Arc 140V graphics, a 48 TOPS NPU, up to 32 GB of LPDDR5x-8533 memory and up to 2TB SSD, and MIL-STD-810H certification.
The new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 will ship in November 2024, starting at $1,999.
The Asus Zenbook 16 Air offers a 16" 120Hz 550 nits 2880x1800 AMOLED display, an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX370 chipset, Radeon 890M GPU and a 50 TOPS NPU. The Zenbook 16 Air is made from ceramic aluminum and weighs 1.49 Kg.
The ASUS Zenbook 16 Air is now available for purchase in China for around $1,800.
Honor's MagicBook Art 14 (2024) laptop offers a 14.6" 3120x2080 OLED display, an Intel Core Ultra5/Ultra7 chipset and a 1TB SSD.
The MagicBook ARt 14 is now shipping in China starting at around $1,075.
The GPD Duo is a dual-display laptop, that uses two 13.3" 2880x1800 AMOLED display (produced by Samsung Display), placed one on top of the other, that can also fold into a regular laptop design. When fully open, the display is similar to a 18-inch display (but is not seamless). The two screens are both touch enabled.
GPD did not yet reveal all the specifications, nor the release date of its upcoming laptop.
Samsung's Galaxy Book4 Edge is the company's first Copilot+ AI-focused laptop series. The Book4 Edge comes in two sizes, 14" and 16", both Dynamic AMOLED 2X displays that offer a 2880x1800 resolution, 120Hz, 500 nits of brightness, 120% DCI-P3 coverage and an anti-reflective coating. The laptops are powered by the Snapdragon X Elite chipset, have 16GB of RAM and up to 1TB of storage, and run Windows 11 with support for Samsung's Galaxy AI.
The Galaxy Book4 Edge laptops will ship in June 2024.
Huawei's Huawei MateBook X Pro 2024 laptop offers a 14.2" 120Hz 1000 nits 3120x2080 AMOLED touch display, Intel's latest chipset (up to Ultra 9 185H), up to 32GB of RAM, 1TB of storage, and an Arc GPU. The MateBook X Pro 2024 weighs just 980 grams.
The MateBook X Pro 2024 is now on pre-sale, and will start shipping soon starting at $1,500 in China.
The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) gaming laptop (model GU605) is a gaming laptop that uses a 16-inch 240Hz 2560x1600 AMOLED display, intel CPUs (up to Core Ultra 9 185H), and Nvidia GPUs (up to GeForce RTX 4090).
The 2024 ASUS Zenbook DUO, model UX8406, is an ultraportable laptop that has two 14" 1920 x 1200 120Hz touch AMOLED display. Other features include an Intel Core Ultra 7 H-processor (Asus will also release an Ultra 9 H version), 16 GB of LPDDRx RAM, 1 GB of SSD storage, and a detachable keyboard.
The Zenbook DUO 2024 is now starting to ship globally, starting at around $1,600.
