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's Galaxy Book Pro is a Windows 10 laptop that features either a 13.3" or 15.6" 1920x1080 AMOLED display. The Galaxy Pro is based on 11th generation Intel Core chipsets (i3, i5 or i7). The 13.3" has optional LTE connectivity. The 13.3" model weighs 0.88 Kg.
The Galaxy Book Pro360 offers similar specifications, but add S Pen (Stylus) support and 5G connectivity for the 13.3" model.
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 laptops are now shipping. The first-gen ASUS ZenBook Pro UX581 is also available.
Gigabyte's 2022 AERO creators laptops offer AMOLED displays in some of the models. Both the AERO 16 and the AERO 15 can be equipped with a 15.6" 4K AMOLED (16:10 on the AERO 16). Other features include Intels' 12-Gen chipsets and NVIDIA's latest RTX 30-series GPUs.
Gigabyte did not reveal the price or release date of its 2022 AERO laptops yet.
Dell's XPS 13 Plus Windows 11 laptop features a "virtually borderless" 13.4" 4K LCD or a 3.5K OLED display, Intel's latest generation 12th-Gen Core 28W chipset and a sleek new design.
The XPS 13 Plus will ship in the Spring of 2022, pricing was not detailed yet.
The 2022 versions of Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon (and Yoga) laptops are offered with an optional 14" 16:10 3840x2400 OLED displays. The new laptops also offer Intel's 28W TDP P-series chipsets (up to 14 cores).
Lenovo will ship the ThinkPad X1 Carbon and the ThinkPad X1 Yoga later in 2022.
Asus' 2022 Zenbook 14 OLED UM/UX 3402 laptops offer 14" 2.8K (2880 x 1800) 90hz 550-nits AMOLED displays. Other features include an Intel’s 12th gen Alder Lake chipset (AMD’s Ryzen Barcelo on the UM 3402 laptops).
The Zenbook 14 OLED UX 3402 and UM 3402 will launch in Q2 2022, starting at around $1,150.
The Asus ZenBook 17 Fold OLED is a laptop-tablet hybrid device that sports a 17.3"foldable OLED display that can fold in half to become a 12.5-inch devices. Other features include an Intel Core i7 Alder Lake chipset and 16GB of RAM.
Asus says that the ZenBook 17 Fold OLED will ship in Q2 2022.
The Huawei MateBook E is a convertible Windows 11 laptop that features a 12.6" 2600x1600 OLED display, Intel 11th-Gen i5/i7 chipset, Iris Xe graphics and up to 16BG of RAM.
The MateBook E starts at around $950 in China, it is not clear whether Huawei will launch it in other regions.
The Vivobook 13 Slate OLED is a detachable Windows laptop/tablet device that features a 13.3" AMOLED display, Intel chipsets, up to 8 GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD storage.
The ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED will ship by the end of 2021, starting at $600.
HP's 2021 Spectre x360 16 features a 16" 16:10 3840×2400 AMOLED display, with a 91% screen-to-body ratio (the OLED is optional, you can also opt for a lower-cost LCD). Other specs include a Intel i7 11-gen core, Nvidia RTX3050 GPU and quad B&O speakers.
The Spectre x360 16 OLED model will launch in the fall of 2021.
