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.
The Yoga Book 9i laptop offers two 13.3" 60hz 2.8K touch OLED displays, Windows 11 OS, Intel's 13th-Gen Core i7-U15 chipset, 16GB of RAM and 512GB/1TB of storage.
The Lenovo Yoga Book 9i will be available in June 2023 starting at $2,100.
Lenovo's ThinkBook Twist laptop has a swiveling base that you can use to choose from two displays: a 13.3" 400 nits 60Hz 2.8K AMOLED touchscreen, or a color 13.3" E Ink display. The E Ink will offer a much longer battery life (Lenovo says 21 hours) compared to the OLED display.
The ThinkBook Twist offers Windows 11 OS, Intel's 13th-Gen chipset, up to 16GB of RAM and 1T of storage.
Gigabyte's Aero 14 OLED laptop (2023 version) features a 14" 2.8K (QHD+) AMOLED display, an Intel chipset (up to Raptor Lake-H) and GPU options up to and RTX 4070. The Aero 16 offers a 16" 4K (UHD+) AMOLED.
The company did not yet say when the new laptops will ship, and at what price range.
The Asus ProArt Studiobook 16 3D OLED and Vivobook Pro 16 3D OLED are two 2023 laptops that are the first to feature Asus' Spatial Vision 3D technology which enables glasses-free 3D images (via a lenticular lens layer and eye-tracking cameras). There's also a Liquid Crystal switching layer that enables to change the screen into a regular 2D display.
The two laptops offer the same 16" 120Hz 3200x2000 OLED display. The fast response time and the high contrast results in very good 3D image quality, which could not have achieved with an LCD display, according to Asus.
LG's Gram laptop series for 2023 all come with OLED displays (reportedly produced by Samsung Display). The Gram Style offers either a 14" 2880x1800 120Hz AMOLED display (14Z90RS model) or 16" 3200x2000 120Hz AMOLED display (16Z90RS model). The laptops offer haptic LED-backlit touchpad, and are based on Intel's 13th-Gen core processors.
The Gram Ultraslim offers a 15.6" 16:9 FHD 60Hz OLED display, and is LG's thinnest laptop ever. It is powered by Intel 13th-gen Raptor Lake P-Series processors.
Xiaomi's Book Air 13 laptop offers a 13.3" 2880x1800 16:10 AMOLED display with DC dimming (rather than PWM), Intel's latest generation i5 or i7 chipsets, 16G of LPDDR5 memory and a 512GB SSD drive. The whole laptop is 12mm thick and weighs 1.2 Kg.
Xiaomi did not yet discloe the price or availability of its latest OLED laptop.
Acer's Swift Edge laptop offers a 16" 3840x2400 AMOLED display and is based on an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U CPU. The Swift Edge is said to be the world's lightest 16-inch laptop at 1.17 Kg.
Acer will ship the Swift Edge soon starting at $1499.
The 2022 edition of Lenovo's foldable laptop, the ThinkPad X1 Fold, offers a 16.3" 2024x2560 touch-enable foldable OLED display (12-inch when folded), an Intel Core i7 chipset, 32GB of RAM and 1TB of PCIe Gen-4 SSD storage.
The ThinkPad X1 Fold will ship in November 2022, starting at $2,499.
