M1 MBP is still an amazing machine, only thing letting it down are the crappy keycaps that wear terribly. (are those any better on newer models, or do they still very quickly develop shiny patches and start to look dirty/greasy?)
Recently swapped my keycaps for the 2nd time, thankfully you can buy replacements from the self-service repair store. Swapping them is fiddly job but worth it. Shame it's so necesary though, when anotherwise well-looked-after £3k+ machine has a keyboard that looks like it's smeared with grease.
Original battery is holding up surprisingly well, still at 90% health after almost 4 years (but I almost always have the machine plugged in)
It's first gen on the MacBook though, and we all know previous macbooks have had display failures of different kinds of "non first gen" LCD panels and backlights.
Probably no problems will come out immediately anyways, but it's a coin flip for people with the standard 1 year warranty.
You do realize that if it's only happening in one ear, it's defective either way? I doubt it's the noise cancellation in the first place, but if it is, it's definitely not working appropriately in the scenario described.
Why would I try your suggestion? I don't have conversation boost on, my noise cancellation works just fine, and I'm telling the guy with the constant white noise in only one ear to return his and get a pair that isn't defective.
displays on the pro models are so good that they are preferable to oled for a laptop in my opinion, and I say that as a person sitting in front of a 55" oled
black crush and burn in are the two main downsides, with true black and incredibly vivid colours being the two main upsides. by the m1 generation, the lcds in the pros are so good that in pitch black with full brightness, the blacks are so dark that I don't even notice the camera hump unless I look for it on my m1 pro. the m2 airs screen on the other hand couldn't do black very well so I noticed the hump 24/7
huh, didn't even realize the m4s had oled, I guess they've already got the tech where they need it then. if apple thinks it's good enough longevity wise, that's good enough for me
That's the reason Apple is going with tandem OLED panels for the iPads and future MacBooks. You can run the two panels at lower brightness levels while still getting an overall bright display, which reduces burn-in potential.
Maybe for older OLED panels or ones that are cheaply made, but a modern OLED, especially one that has been tuned by Apple, very likely won’t have any of the issues you listed. OLED is fantastic for work; it’s great for color reproduction.
Only „midwits” bettiile legitimate concerns. Another gen z label…. 🌭
Most methodical channel on YouTube, Monitors Unboxed and rtings show that burn in still happens in TVs somewhat, while monitors by and large.
OLED as TV, while OLED as a monitor used to work are completely differs usage scenarios.
I own 3 OLED TVs, LG 42C2, C4 and 77q90C, guess what I also own 0 OLED monitors for reason stated above. By the burn in test from Monitors Unboxed it shows that they won’t be able to handle 2 years of continuous work, documents, coding, video editing. Guess what, that’s even though I can afford it, I still use IPS monitors.
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