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LG's Gram Style Notebooks to Feature Samsung OLED Display

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At CES, LG announced its new Gram Style notebooks with OLED displays and news out of Korea now suggests that the 14 and 16-inch notebooks will sport OLED displays from LG's main competitor, Samsung. This might not be entirely surprising, as there's a limited number of laptop sized OLED panel manufacturers and it seems like LG would rather go with a local, Korean option, rather than using a Japanese or Chinese panel in its upcoming notebooks.

The report by the Elec suggests that the LG Gram Style notebooks will use Samsung's rigid OLED panels based on a standard glass substrate. This is also the type of panel that most other notebook manufacturers are using today, as it's the most cost effective type of OLED panels, regardless of manufacturer. LG Display doesn't currently manufacture this type of OLED panels, even though it apparently could do so, using its flexible OLED production lines, albeit at a higher cost. The irony in the situation is still hard to miss though, as the two companies are fierce competitors in many of their core businesses.



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It's nice to see OLED finally getting the love it deserves in the industry, it seems to be quite mainstream this year.
 
It's nice to see OLED finally getting the love it deserves in the industry, it seems to be quite mainstream this year.
It's still mainly on higher-end models though, but it's at least starting to appear in sub US$1,000 models, especially from Asus for some reason.
 
Planned OLEDscoloscence... Still waiting on that burn-in proof monitor. Then again laptops don't really last longer than 3-4 years anyway so that's a good match, I guess, if you love E-waste.
 
Sometimes I think I'm the only one who doesn't really care for OLED. I've used phones and tablets with or without it and honestly it doesn't matter to me. The TV's look impressive at first glance but in the end I don't really care for those either.

Planned OLEDscoloscence... Still waiting on that burn-in proof monitor. Then again laptops don't really last longer than 3-4 years anyway so that's a good match, I guess, if you love E-waste.

I have in this room right now 6 working laptops older than 10 years, and one of them (in sig) see quite a lot of use. But yeah modern machines, even higher end ones, just don't seem to last long.
 
It's still mainly on higher-end models though, but it's at least starting to appear in sub US$1,000 models, especially from Asus for some reason.

yep, even early last year Asus had some Zen OLED laptops for like $600 at Walmart.

I agree, it is kind of weird they are the only budget OLED laptop maker, considering their premium pricing history. lol

Maybe the right people working at Asus are dinner buddies with some bigshot working at LG Display or something :roll: :roll: :roll:
 
Sounds to me LG and Samsung are the same company. Both make garbage appliances for sure and their displays blanking out, no thanks.
 
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