All Apple MacBooks to get LED backlight in 2009

Posted on Wednesday, May 21 2008 @ 21:53 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

A Chinese business newspaper claims Apple plans to use LED backlight units (BLUs) in all of its MacBook notebooks next year.

Apple plans to use LED backlight units (BLUs) in all of its MacBooks in 2009, which will benefit Taiwan-based BLU maker Kenmos Technology, according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN).

Kenmos was Apple's main suppler for LED BLUs in 2007, according to the paper. Market observers estimate that Kenmos Technology's shipments could reach 1.5 million units this year, up five times compared to 2007, for a global market share of 9%, stated the paper.

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Re: All Apple MacBooks to get LED backlight in 2009
by Anonymous on Thursday, May 22 2008 @ 16:20 CEST

Dell? HP?

Each of you are bigger than Apple and yet you can't seem to do this?

Re: All Apple MacBooks to get LED backlight in 2009
by Thomas De Maesschalck (lsdsmurf@dvhardware.net) on Friday, May 23 2008 @ 14:10 CEST

The average Mac notebook does cost a lot more than the average Dell or HP notebook :P

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