I saw the MacBook Pro OLED next to the 'best' Windows laptop with tandem OLED — and it's not even close

Apple demonstrated the superior display of its new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR during a briefing and demo, pitting it against a premium Windows laptop with a tandem OLED display, the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition, priced at $2,699. The MacBook Pro starts at $3,399, and the two laptops showed stark differences in display quality.

Visually, the OLED display on the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i was inferior to Apple's MacBook Pro, particularly when viewed from an angle. While the two laptops were almost equal when viewed straight on, moving to the side revealed the MacBook Pro's image retaining its quality, while the colors on the Lenovo shifted. The MacBook Pro also had a significantly higher contrast ratio of 10 million to 1, compared to the 1 million to 1 on the Lenovo.

This difference became apparent when viewing a skyline photo; the Lenovo's image was brighter but washed out, without the perfect blacks of the MacBook Pro. Additionally, the Lenovo struggled with presenting a clear image in bright conditions, while the MacBook Pro remained clear even with the room lights on. The Lenovo was also more prone to glare and screen wobble, a factor that Apple's hinge design sought to address with increased resistance.