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:
MSI's Monarch 13 laptop offers a 13.3" 2.8K (2880x1800) AMOLED display, a Core Ultra 7 155H chipset, 32GB of memory and a 1TB SSD. The laptop boasts 16 hours of battery life with a 75Wh battery and 100W PD fast charging.
The Monarch 13 is now shipping in China, for $1,400.
LG's 2024 Gram Pro laptop series offers OLED display options in two laptops. The Gram Pro 16 can come with a 16" 2800x1800 OLED, awhile the 2-in-1 Gram Pro 16 comes with a similar touch-enabled display. The new Gram Pro laptops use Intel's latest Core Ultra CPUs with new AI features.
LG haven't yet announced the pricing or availability of its new OLED laptops.
MSIs 2024 Prestige 13 AI Evo laptop offers a 13.3" 2.8K (2880x1800) 500 nits AMOLED displays and an Intel Core Ultra 5/7 processors. The Prestige 13 AI Evo weighs just 990 grams.
MSI will ship its new laptop by the end of 2023, starting at $1,049.
Samsung's Galaxy Book4 series of laptops all use AMOLED displays and Intel's Core Ultra 9 or Core Ultra 7 Evo Edition chipsets. The top of the line Galaxy Book4 Ultra uses a 16" touch WQXGA+ (2880x1800) 400 nits 120Hz VRR AMOLED display, while the Book 4 Pro offers the same display at either 14" or 16".
The Book 4 Pro 360 also has the same 16" 2880x1800 AMOLED display.
The 2024 Asus Zenbook 14 OLED laptop offers a 14" 3K (2880x1800) 600-nits 120Hz AMOLED display, and Intel's new AI Core Ultra 9 CPUs (Meteor Lake).
Asus did not yet detail the shipping date or price of the new UX3405 Zenbook14 OLED range.
Acer's Swift Edge 16 (2023 model) laptop offers a 16" 120Hz 3200x2000 AMOLED display, AMD's Ryzen 7040 Series processors with Ryzen AI, AMD RDNA 3 GPU, up to 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM and up to 2TB of SSD storage.
The Swift Edge 16 OLED laptop is now shipping starting at $1,299.
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.
