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Re:M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a... by Syonyk on Friday November 15, 2024 @08:06PM (#42153233)
Look at the Tweet (X? Blurp? What do we call them now?) - it's got the spectrum of the panel, comparing previous and newer panels.

If you know what you're looking for in those, you can identify a lot of different phosphor configurations just by the particular shape of the RGB peaks - the older ones have a distinctive multi-peaked red emission that I've seen in various LED bulbs as well over the years.

I doubt Apple mentioned it to anyone. Applying a spectrometer to any new light emitting device is just the sort of thing some people enjoy doing.

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Re:M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a... by jsheard on Friday November 15, 2024 @09:43PM (#42153672)
> the Tweet (X? Blurp? What do we call them now?)

They're officially just called "Posts" now. It's a hell of a downgrade from how distinctive the old terms were, no wonder people still call them Tweets.

Community Notes was also set to be called Birdwatch originally, continuing the bird pun theme.

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Re:M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a... by mhb on Saturday November 16, 2024 @12:52AM (#42154641)
Maybe you can take some solace from the proliferation of terms for what were once universally referred to as daughterboards.
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Re:M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a... by redrove on Saturday November 16, 2024 @01:21AM (#42154790)
> Look at the Tweet (X? Blurp? What do we call them now?)

X-crement

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Re:M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a... by MengerSponge on Saturday November 16, 2024 @02:00AM (#42154946)
xeet, with the x pronounced like Nahuatl: "sh"

https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/resources/PronouncingNahuat...

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Re:M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a... by Fr3ck on Saturday November 16, 2024 @07:45AM (#42156138)
Now you can say things like, "I just xeeted" or "Did you see that xeet?"
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Re:M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a... by JKCalhoun on Saturday November 16, 2024 @08:11AM (#42156235)
Judges would have also accepted "X-ude".
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Re:M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a... by aaronbrethorst on Saturday November 16, 2024 @01:41AM (#42154875)
Xits
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Re:M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a... by hyperknot on Saturday November 16, 2024 @06:00AM (#42155793)
It's also the first step in professional display calibration.
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