This is why Apple calls the screen of the 2021 MacBook Pro the best laptop display in the world. The display uses Liquid Retina XDR technology and mini-LED lighting.
The 2021 MacBook Pro has an impressive Liquid Retina XDR ProMotion mini-LED display. Although Apple clearly makes an excellent screen, the technical language in the name is dazzling. The laptop screen is the main way the computer shares information with the user, and it is as important as the deeper hardware components that tend to receive more attention.
Apple has developed a new chip for the 2021 MacBook Pro. Based on the success of the 13-inch MacBook Pro M1 chip last year, it has increased the number of CPU cores to 10. The M1 Pro chip doubled the number of GPU cores to 16, and M1 Max quadrupled the graphics processing cores to 32. The new laptop also offers up to four times the memory and storage capacity, a better webcam, and additional speakers that support spatial audio playback.
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The most obvious improvement of the 2021 MacBook Pro is the ultra-bright display and clear screen, which is the window for users to obtain all of these processing capabilities. Apple uses the term Liquid Retina to refer to the liquid crystal display (LCD), which has so dense pixels that the human eye cannot distinguish the individual points that make up the image. XDR is an acronym for extended dynamic range, which is the amount of change possible between the darkest and brightest possible intensity of a pixel. The 2021 MacBook Pro has a contrast ratio of one million to one and a density of 254 pixels per inch. The continuous full-screen brightness reaches 1,000 nits and the peak intensity is 1,600 nits, which is very bright for laptop screens. Apple calls its adaptive display refresh rate ProMotion, which can be adjusted between 24 and 120 Hz.
The key innovation that enables Apple to build XDR displays in its 2021 MacBook Pro is mini-LED. These tiny, ultra-bright light-emitting diodes are scattered throughout the display, providing 10,000 local dimming areas, making blacks darker than traditional LED backlights. In addition, seven optical film layers are used to diffuse each light source and adjust the hue of the mini-LED to pure white to provide an ideal backlight. The backlight is illuminated by an oxide thin film transistor (TFT) LCD panel, which can refresh pixels up to 120 times per second for smooth motion, or as slow as 24 times per second to save power.
Apple's 2021 MacBook Pro can display high dynamic range (HDR) photos and Dolby Vision videos with vivid colors, clear details, bright whites and deep blacks. 1 billion colors can be displayed using the wide P3 color gamut. At the same time, Apple's True Tone technology can selectively adjust the color temperature to match the ambient light, which is helpful for designers who may use color reference cards or paint chips. Apple claims that the screen of the 2021 MacBook Pro is the best laptop display in the world, which may not be an exaggeration given its impressive specifications.
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