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Apple quietly gave the M4 MacBook Pro a quantum dot display

M4 MacBook Pro reviews mostly endorsed my own view that, while the machine would make a great purchase for Intel...

Apple describes them by the term miniLED – a reference to the much-improved backlighting in which many more, smaller LEDs allow far greater local brightening and dimming of the display. Previous M-series MacBook Pro models used a red KSF phosphor film to enable the miniLED backlighting to produce a wider color gamut than would normally be possible. The reason the company hadn’t done this before, says Young, is due to a mix of relatively poor efficiency and the fact that earlier generations of QD contained cadmium.

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