I can't stop looking at the touchscreen MacBook Pro display, and now I know why — it's a tech unicorn

Upon first encountering the touchscreen MacBook Pro, I began to appreciate that despite the creation of a new display term ("PROLED"), this display may be truly exceptional. Upon visual comparison with the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition, which also features a Tandem OLED panel, Apple's laptop display appears to be of a different caliber. This distinction can be attributed to various factors, including the manufacturing process and the display's specifications.

Apple claims to have partnered with an unnamed manufacturing company to produce these panels through a Gen-8 OLED Fab. Such a facility is a rare sight, as there are only four of them worldwide, and Samsung Display operates one of them. Given Apple's collaborations with Samsung in the past, it is plausible that Samsung is the manufacturing partner for the touchscreen MacBook Pro.

Remarkably, the laptop PROLED XDR panel is composed of 50 layers, with individual panels appearing to contain numerous layers, some as thin as nanometers. The panel's construction consists of two stacks of OLED, each containing 30 layers, with the organic self-emissive material being layered onto the panel and dried, resulting in layers ranging from one nanometer to hundreds of nanometers thick.

Underneath the OLED layer lies the TFT (thin-film transistor) glass substrate, responsible for powering and driving the imagery on the panel's surface. The touchscreen mechanism, typically not mentioned in such discussions, is integrated within the display, making it an Apple-defined process. Its integration likely warrants patent protection.