Laptop with OLED ... so, so, so good.

[Space Cowboy]

I received my new laptop yesterday, an Alienware 13 R3 with the OLED display and ... my word, that display is something else. It finally feels like we have a modern display technology that compares favourably with the CRT technologies of yore.

I've got a pretty decent PC here, with a 4K monitor, but I can't tear myself away from the laptop with this gorgeous display.

I bet retro stuff on this would look pretty damn awesome as well.

[Barney]

I was blown away by the screen on my mid-2015 MacBook Pro 15" Retina - I've never liked macs, and still hate OSX with a passion but the screen on this thing is something else entirely.

I don't know if it's OLED (I suspect not) but it's way more vibrant and sharp than any of my other machines.

[Darkflame]

OLEDs are great. No backlight = power saved too.

[Molloy]

Think Microsoft are talking about porting Windows 10 to Arm. Add in OLED and we'll be looking at laptops with 20 hour battery life.

Looking forward to affordable OLED pc monitors my eyes are tired!

[ThetaReactor]

Think Microsoft are talking about porting Windows 10 to Arm. Add in OLED and we'll be looking at laptops with 20 hour battery life.

Looking forward to affordable OLED pc monitors my eyes are tired!

Windows has been ARM-compatible for a while now. They tried it with the Surface RT. That was a horrible failure, but they've got a new x86 emulation scheme that promises near-native speed. Wouldn't surprise me if they start pushing cross-compatibility in Windows Store apps, too.

The only thing really holding OLEDs back is yields and lifespan. So they're expensive and the different subpixels degrade at different rates, which messes up the color. Both should improve within the next few years. While I still like my CRTs, low-latency, hi-res OLEDs could do a really good approximation.