What could a miniLED Apple iPad and Mac have next door?

After leaving the LCD screens on the more advanced iPhone models, Apple can take the same action on the screens of its iPad and Mac, but it seems this time it won't be using OLED screens but a new technology called miniLED with its features that make them very suitable for these large devices. What is miniLED? We will explain it below.

We can just talk to Xavi Mestre, an avid follower and contributor to our Daily Podcast (link) dedicated to this topic. Completing the details and making them accessible to all, not just to podcast fans, helped us write an article in which we explain in a very easy way you should know about this new type of screens.

The rear lamp is a big change

To begin, we will explain in broad terms how the LED LCD panel works and how it appeared over the years. In these panels, pixels, in order to be able to illuminate, must be illuminated in the background. In this case, white LED is always used (hence the name). LED LCD panels have good visual quality and color design, but they also have a major problem: not being able to display pure black, because they always end up getting some kind of backlit light. This residual light on the background causes the darker pixels to see the darkest gray and this has other effects: it limits the contrast, reduces the viewing angles and shows less vivid, more intense colors.

In an effort to reduce these deficiencies, the industry has created a better way to add pixels, which would be nothing other than placing multiple LEDs in different areas of the screen. In this way they were able to illuminate only the areas that were needed and omitted those that were needed to indicate pure blackness. This in turn improves the difference and results in more efficient backlight technologies such as Full Array LED or more recently QLED, which is the same way. These systems are able to place on the back of the screen a large number of LEDs (between 100 and 500) that allow for more effective control control. and, therefore, improve the contrast and be able to turn off each LED to get black without any remaining light.

The near future is via miniLED

The miniLED is on a broader spectrum from the large-scale reversals of life-sized LCD panels, which now instead of having 15-100-300-500 LEDS illuminate the panel, more than 15,000 can be done individually to show better color, better contrast and get a little darker. Of course, it's far from the 8,294,400 light points provided by 4K OLED panels, where each pixel can be turned on or off alone.

The main advantage of these miniLED panels is that removes some of the problems associated with OLED technology, such as degradation of biological codes and overheating / storage over long exposure for repetitive photos (here they will go into the menus of apps or applications that are continuously displayed on the screen throughout the work day).

The next step is microLED

The emergence of miniLED technology is microLED, currently with high production costs that hinder its use on devices such as the one we are talking about, but they are able to place as many LEDs as there are pixels on the screen, for comparison with OLED, each pixel has its own light, but without any problems caused by OLED. But this is something we will yet see.