Apple have committed to launch LED based displays in 2007 and in time will phase out the use of fluorescent lamps altogether. The factors driving Apple in this direction would appear at first glance to have more to do with improving it's environmental reputation and the desire for kit with ever thinner form factors.
From what I've read LED displays will offer the following advantages when compared to current displays using fluorescent lamps:
a. Lower power consumption
b. Cause less harm to the environment during production and at the end of it's life-cycle
c. Thinner form factor
d. Wider gamut
e. More consistent color reproduction across the panel
f. Brighter, more accurate color
g. No warm-up time
Advantages d. through g. are going to be of immediate interest to us. It's very easy to make such technology claims but do they stack up when applied to our own workflow's and ambient working conditions. Like it or not it's something we are going to have to address sooner or latter.
Actual displays are thin on the ground but Samsung have a USD 2000, 20" LED display
http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/PressRe...1104_0000298342The speculation is that the new industrial design iMac, and the new 15" Macbook Pro will be the first Apple products to use LED displays.
Does anyone have any experience of this display technology and if so how does it stack up to the claims of the marketing dept.?
