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by nebula8804 1712 days ago
Actually you are right. I'm sorry I totally forgot about that Samsung Galaxy Chromebook and there were a few more. My mind was thinking more of Desktop PC monitors as that is what the DASUNG is. Seems like a few options in the 27-32 inch are trickling out like the new LG monitor. Suspiciously it seem out of stock as soon as it launched, this is what happened to the Dell OLED. (EDIT: seems like other stores still have stock so disregard this) But yeah in the ~13 inch range there are a few laptops. There still seems to be some fundamental problem.

I have heard of talks that Apple is investing heavily into microLED and the next big tech and skipping OLED for Laptops/next gen Monitors. That might be where the rest of the PC industry heads as well.

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I think it's just the same problem as HDR - there's absolutely no technical reason why we can't have a good HDR desktop monitor, but those really don't exist outside of a few extremely expensive models - yet good HDR tech is available on mid-tier TVs without any issue. I imagine it's just that the market for an HDR-enabled monitor is absolutely tiny, so the prices are very high and the choice is small. Same with OLEDs - there is demand for large(50-75") panels, so those are made en-masse and available at reasonable prices, but not so much for desktop-friendly 25-30" sizes. Laptops will budge that trend in 13-15" space but again, that does nothing for desktop monitors.