About that Apple is preparing its first MacBook with OLED display, has been speculated for quite some time. But now an interesting clue has appeared directly in macOS 27 Golden Gate. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith noticed that some elements of the Liquid Glass interface look and even work differently on high-quality OLED monitors with HDR support – specifically significantly better than on regular displays. And according to him, this may be a small taste of what Apple preparing for the future MacBook.
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The difference is visible, for example, in buttons and other transparent Liquid Glass elements, where on an OLED screen with HDR they get more pronounced reflections, more depth and overall look much more like real glass. macOS 27 uses HDR brightness for some parts of the user interface beyond the normal white level, which allows bright reflections to stand out above the surrounding content.
Apple announced at the presentation of macOS 27 that Liquid Glass has been redesigned. The new version offers more uniform light refraction, better contrast, and even a slider with which the user can adjust the transparency of individual interface elements. HDR when using an OLED display (although of course it is an external one for now) is supposed to add another level of depth that you simply won't see in all its glory on a regular Mac display.
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Liquid Glass may be ready for a new display
And it is the slightly different functionality that seems really interesting. Apple according to long-term speculation, it is preparing a new high-end MacBook with an OLED display that is also supposed to offer touch control. Recently, there has even been talk of it being Apple can sell as MacBook Ultra and place it above the classic MacBook ProOLED is used for similar effects as LCD, because thanks to perfect black, high contrast and the ability to very precisely control the brightness of individual pixels, HDR Liquid Glass can look significantly more impressive than on current LCDs and mini-LED screens.
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Of course, it must be admitted in one breath that it cannot be immediately concluded from this observation that Apple created the HDR form of Liquid Glass directly for OLED MacBook. macOS already supports external HDR displays today and Apple also has on offer Studio Display XDR with maxwith a maximum HDR brightness of up to 2000 nits. The timing is at least interesting, as Apple significantly improves Liquid Glass with HDR just as leaks suggest it's about to switch to OLED for its top laptop, so I personally think we're really looking at confirmation of this machine now.
Who knows if these leaks are more of an intention to make us Apple attracted to new products.