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Re:OLED, Not for Me by kstenerud on Saturday January 10, 2026 @01:29AM (#46563331)
Whether it's a minority opinion or not, I really can't see the difference. Even when he posted highly zoomed images of VS Code ("Visual Studio Code does a wonderful job demonstrating this problem"), the only thing I noticed is that the image on the right looks slightly brighter than the image on the left.

Then as I went back to where he was describing the problem ("fringing"), I kept forgetting when I scrolled back to the images which was which (and which image was supposed to be "worse").

I'm on a 2025 Macbook, so maybe the laptop's monitor masks the issue?

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Re:OLED, Not for Me by writebetterc on Saturday January 10, 2026 @02:45AM (#46563687)
I'm on a M4 Macbook, and I can see it. I'm inclined to totally accept the blog author's experience as true for them, I'd probably experience the same thing.
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Re:OLED, Not for Me by WithinReason on Saturday January 10, 2026 @05:27AM (#46564474)
The image on the right was also out of focus which hides color fringing on the LCD
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Re:OLED, Not for Me by c0nsumer on Saturday January 10, 2026 @08:17AM (#46565493)
(Author here.)

That's an interesting point you mention about not seeing it, because prior to buying an OLED I'd read a bunch about fringing and in many articles I just... couldn't see it. I couldn't tell what was being illustrated in the images.

It wasn't until I sat in front of one for a few hours, in my room and lighting and with my apps and had funny-feeling eyes and a this-seems-off feeling that I decided to investigate. And yes, those macro photos show fringing, but it /is/ hard to understand how the subpixel pattern translates to on-screen weirdness until you've seen it for yourself.

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