High-end smartphones and televisions have been touting OLED screens for a while now for some very valid reasons, including its rich colors, wide contrast range and its unmatched inky-deep blacks. Despite the popularity and desirability, OLED screen have not made their way into mainstream laptops. Though there have been a few forays over the years by a handful of enterprising laptop manufacturers, they did not become overly popular due to two main reasons. First, these screens were exceedingly power-hungry and drained your batteries before you could blink. And, the second reason was the exorbitant cost of laptops that came equipped with these screens.

Luckily, all that is about to change with several new model laptops coming into the market offering OLED screens that are less power thirsty and more affordable. Lenovo, Razer, and HP all have announced or released OLED laptops in the first half of this year with similar display specs across the board, because they all use the same Samsung panel with a 15-inch touchscreen boasting 4K resolution and 60Hz refresh rates.

The newly available OLED laptops have a price range of around $2,000, which is nearly $400 more than that for a laptop with similar specifications and a LCD screen.

The most noticeable thing when you first start using these laptops is how punchy and vibrant the screen is. Colors look like they are popping off the screen without appearing cartoonish. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the blacks are as inky and deep as they are on an OLED TV. Watching Netflix in 4K on this screen is truly a delight.

In terms of tech specification regarding color reproduction, the OLED displays 100 percent of the wide-gamut DCI-P3 spectrum (compared to 82.2 percent on the LCD screens), which means the greens and reds are extra rich and deep. It has a rated contrast ratio of 462,989:1, which is what provides those deep blacks. It also emits less blue light than LCD screens, so much so that laptop manufacturers could do away with any of the extra blue light-blocking filters or software that have started popping up on laptops with LCD panels.

The OLED laptop screens also have excellent viewing angles — which is especially useful if you are flipping it around into the various ‘yoga’ positions that are now available with some laptops. The screens also do not have any ghosting or weird artifacts when scrolling quickly. However, this is not an ideal screen for gaming since its refresh rate is the standard 60Hz and not 144Hz, and its 350 nits of brightness might make it tough to see outdoors on a bright sunny day, but for any other purpose, it is incredible.

Battery life on laptops with OLED have also increased remarkably from what they were before. It is possible to average around six hours of usage between charges, which is about what you would get on a similar an LCD laptop with similar specifications.

So, if you are prepared to pay a small premium over an LCD for a rich viewing experience the OLED laptops are the way to go.


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