macbook pro 13 inch mid 2012 display part number

LG Philips and Samsung return from before, but AUO now joins the fray. Unlike in previous years, there appears to be three manufacturers supplying panels for the 2012 MacBook Air. Sooner rather than later, Apple will have to respond.

The problem is that consumer insistence higher quality displays has pushed Apple's competitors to finally deliver more than TN at MacBook Air price points. The MacBook Air's panel remains one of the best non-IPS solutions on the market. And as Apple has shown us in the past, it's not fond of stopgap solutions.īrightness, black levels, contrast, color accuracy and gamut haven't changed over the past year. There's no denying that what ASUS has done is better, it's just not perfect. You get sharpness, and additional desktop area, but not the total package you get with the rMBP. 2012 ASUS Zenbook Prime (right)ĪSUS also enjoys a resolution advantage, but it's not really high enough to make good use of integer DPI scaling (at 2x you get a UI sized for a 960 x 540 display). The difference is quite noticeable:Ģ012 MacBook Air (left) vs. As the MacBook Air retains its TN display, for the first time we can actually say that ASUS' Ultrabook offers better viewing angles than the Air. ASUS actually pre-empted all of the exciting announcements (rMBP included) with its Zenbook Prime, complete with 11 and 13-inch 1080p IPS displays. If there was one clear trend at Computex this year it's towards IPS 1080p displays in Windows 8 notebooks. The MacBook Air display continues to be good, and better than most, but no where near what the rMBP delivers and actually a step behind what the competition in the PC space has been cooking up. There's also the matter of maintaining its thin profile and battery life in pursuit of a retina display. While technically feasible, my guess is a lack of supply kept a rMBA out of the cards for this year.

The MacBook Air is really Apple's mass-market notebook, and as such it's not going to be the target for a Retina Display upgrade, at least not this year.

Macbook pro 13 inch mid 2012 display part number