AMOLED Laptop Screens Coming in 2012?

While rumour has it that Apple's TN- or IPS-based Retina displays (already seen in the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S) will soon be finding their way into MacBook Pro laptops, OLED screens could also be coming to PC notebooks in 2012.

According to documents from a source known as Samsung Display published on the OLED-Display website, production of AMOLED laptop screens is due to begin in 2012. That's great news, as while laptop screens are often sub-standard TN displays with low contrast, tight viewing angles and poor colour fidelity, AMOLED screens boast almost infinite contrast levels, have pretty much no ghosting and have very wide viewing angles.

AMOLED screens will first of all be coming to top-of-the-range models, as production costs remain relatively high. 

According to the same source, by 2014, Samsung will be producing almost as many AMOLED screens for laptops as it does for tablets, which currently tend to benefit from higher-quality displays than notebook computers. It's around this time that production costs are likely to drop and AMOLED screens will be rolled out into mid-range notebooks too.

With rumours of MVA screens coming to Asus laptops in the not-too-distant future, 2012 could be the year in which the TN laptop screen finally starts to get it comeuppance. About time too!

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