LED on 17' MBP???

I'm confuse weather the latest 17" MBP is LED or LCD display? I have ask few retailer about this question but there gave me different answer... Anyone can help me on this? Thank you in advane.
macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
my personal opinion is that Apple would have loved to introduce LED to 17" as well, but simply the Display Manufacturer isn't or wasn't capable in producing this in the needed quantity.
As soon as the production process output is high enough, 17" displays with LED will be in the market.
Regards
Stefan

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