OLED Gaming Laptops

It looks like OLED laptops are just starting to become a reality.

It appears as though OLED could be an awesome technology for a gaming laptop:

* Fast response time
* "real" black (i.e. no "light bleed")
* Great color gamut (more important for video and photo but very nice for games)

The downsides appear to be:

* Burn in - I believe the OLED pixels have some memory
* Strobing - it looks like the light intensity needs to be normalized when fewer or more pixels are active to control the overall apparent intensity. The light level adjustment can look like strobing if PCM is used to step the levels up and down. (Frankly this seems like something that could be improved relatively easily through the controller).

I don't know if power consumption is better or worse for OLEDs though I would think it would be better.

I also don't know how the dead pixel rate compares with the passive LCD technologies.

Do, does anyone have any thoughts on the possible ( or actual =P ) impact of OLED technology on gaming laptops?

 

At the moment color accuracy on them is pretty horrible.

 

I did read somewhere that the high end OLED TVs are supposed to be well calibrated. I'll have to look for a full review.

Here's a good review of the new Yoga OLED screen on Anandtech. I found this very informative - anyone else wondering about the new OLED screens might find this interesting:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10697/the-lenovo-thinkpad-x1-yoga-review/6

EDIT: and to cut to the chase - the Yoga OLED screen does have some issues indicating that you might want to wait another generation or two.

 

This review of the Alienware 13 OLED says 104% aRGB coverage. I have no idea if its calibrated from the factory, but it does seem to have the potential to display accurate colors. Its a shame they only offer it with a glossy touchscreen. If the refreshed model has a matte OLED display with a GTX 1050 Ti and Kaby Lake ULV i7, that would be a pretty nice mobile gaming machine!

 

All the OLEDs I've used so far are super saturated. Maybe they all just aren't calibrated but I've yet to see one beat even an average IPS panel yet.

 

The Anandtech article goes into calibration into great detail. Essentially they concluded that the default calibration was pretty bad, but they could achieve very good calibration by calibrating themselves. They concluded overall that the calibration is complex enough, and something you would want to adjust for different color "modes" to make this something that should be handled by the OEM.

There were two major issues the review points out: significant color shift when viewing the display off axis and ghosting. Ghosting was at first surprising to me since the response time of OLED pixels is so fast, but apparently there is a residual color adjustment that can cause very noticeable ghosting (the article mentions that the VR headset developers try to mitigate this problem by inserting black pixels between transitions).

 

I have to wonder if part of that is because content is created with LCd in mind so when red is displayed it's RED on on an OLED and so and so forth etc etc?

 

The Alienware 13 will likely have the best OLED display. That's one thing they do right.