Has apple made public what type of LED technology is used w/ the 09 17 MBP?

Question

Is this info public yet? I have called support and sales several time and they are completely unaware.
I am hoping it's not inferior, old technology. Dell has just release an RGB display which is beautiful. With the premium price we pay, we would hope no corners have been cut.

Answer 1

The Dell Displays are also LED back-lit displays (read the specs closely) and the technology is the same as Apple's (it even appears to be made by the same fabricator). Dell has indicated that by next year they will move completely to LED back-lit units ([press release here|http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/pressoffice/en/2008/20 0809_24_rr000?c=us&l=en&s=corp]).
Conventional LED technology doesn't permit packaging as small a display pixel (or sub-pixel) so a "true LED" display using conventional LED technology doesn't exist. Instead, so-called organic LED displays are being developed. You don't see these on laptops quite yet as the price is still high ($2000 for an 11" display), but in the next 2-3 years you should start seeing these types of displays coming down in price to the point where they may be practical to replace LCD displays. The OLED displays are more power-efficient, have higher contrast (million-to-1), thinner, scale better (the cost is linear with respect to the diagonal measure, as opposed to exponential with conventional LCD) and they can be made both flexible and transparent. [Here's an example|http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/01/09/cesvideo_samsung_see_thruoled>
I think the OP was asking what sort of LCD panel was being used. Higher-end Macs use H-IPS or S-IPS panels, and the lower-end ones use MVA or PVA panels (except for the MacBooks, which use TN panels). Dell uses mostly TN panels, but also sells S-IPS panels and MVA ones. Almost all Dell notebooks use TN panels, but some use PVA panels. The Dell 2209WA WFP is an example of one of their S-IPS units, and it's a good deal.