macbook air 2012 lcd panel brands

Replace your own Macbook display screen or contact our repair center for our Macbook Pro and Macbook Air screen repair options! Either option will save you hundreds of dollars compared to other companies.

You can find out what the manufacturer, model number, and type of LCD panel you have in any of your Macs, including the iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook, or any model MacBook Pro by using a fairly complex looking terminal command.

With the first line being the LCD panel model and the second line being the color profile you are using (same as set in your Display preferences). You can then find out what the manufacturer and specs of the display are by googling for the model number, for instance LTN154BT turns up this page indicating it is a Samsung 15″ display running at 1440×900 and capable of displaying a maximum of 262,000 colors.

This is particularly helpful information to know if your MacBook screen has been cracked and you want to do the installation yourself. Official repairs are often very expensive, but with a little patience and the right tools it can be done by anyone. You can typically pick up an LCD panel through Amazon or eBay for rather cheap and the installation takes about 30 minutes if you follow a guide.

It can also be handy to know if you’re just curious which particular panel or screen type is used in your Mac, since Apple often sources different panels from different manufacturers, but otherwise using them in the same Mac models.

Retina Display is a brand name used by Apple for its series of IPS LCD and OLED displays that have a higher pixel density than traditional Apple displays.trademark with regard to computers and mobile devices with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

The Retina display has since expanded to most Apple product lines, such as Apple Watch, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, iPad Mini, iPad Air, iPad Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, and Pro Display XDR, some of which have never had a comparable non-Retina display.marketing terms to differentiate between its LCD and OLED displays having various resolutions, contrast levels, color reproduction, or refresh rates. It is known as Liquid Retina display for the iPhone XR, iPad Air 4th Generation, iPad Mini 6th Generation, iPad Pro 3rd Generation and later versions,Retina 4.5K display for the iMac.

The displays are manufactured worldwide by different suppliers. Currently, the iPad"s display comes from Samsung,LG DisplayJapan Display Inc.twisted nematic (TN) liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) to in-plane switching (IPS) LCDs starting with the iPhone 4 models in June 2010.

The sort of rich, data-dense information design espoused by Edward Tufte can now not only be made on the computer screen but also enjoyed on one. Regarding font choices, you not only need not choose a font optimized for rendering on screen, but should not. Fonts optimized for screen rendering look cheap on the retina MacBook Pro—sometimes downright cheesy—in the same way they do when printed in a glossy magazine.

The MacBook Air is really Apple"s mass-market notebook, and as such it"s not going to be the target for a Retina Display upgrade, at least not this year. While technically feasible, my guess is a lack of supply kept a rMBA out of the cards for this year. There"s also the matter of maintaining its thin profile and battery life in pursuit of a retina display.

The MacBook Air display continues to be good, and better than most, but no where near what the rMBP delivers and actually a step behind what the competition in the PC space has been cooking up.

If there was one clear trend at Computex this year it"s towards IPS 1080p displays in Windows 8 notebooks. ASUS actually pre-empted all of the exciting announcements (rMBP included) with its Zenbook Prime, complete with 11 and 13-inch 1080p IPS displays. As the MacBook Air retains its TN display, for the first time we can actually say that ASUS" Ultrabook offers better viewing angles than the Air. The difference is quite noticeable:

Brightness, black levels, contrast, color accuracy and gamut haven"t changed over the past year. The MacBook Air"s panel remains one of the best non-IPS solutions on the market. The problem is that consumer insistence higher quality displays has pushed Apple"s competitors to finally deliver more than TN at MacBook Air price points. Sooner rather than later, Apple will have to respond.

Unlike in previous years, there appears to be three manufacturers supplying panels for the 2012 MacBook Air. LG Philips and Samsung return from before, but AUO now joins the fray. It"s quite possible that Apple"s volumes have grown large enough to justify adding a third supplier - a trend we may see increase in the future, and across more component categories.

As long as Apple hasn"t masked the data, the first line should be the part number of your display panel. The first one or two characters will tell you the manufacturer: LP for LG Philips, LT for Samsung and B for AUO. Anecdotally, LG and Samsung seem to be the most prevalent. In my personal experience with six 13-inch 2012 MacBook Airs and three 11-inch MacBook Airs, the breakdown was as follows:

A thread over on Macrumors places the Samsung/LG split much closer to 50/50, however it"s not clear if there"s a higher incidence of LG panels in BTO or non-default configurations. We"d need many more samples to really get an idea for how all of this shapes up, so don"t put too much faith in the results from my experience.

Apple does its best to ensure that all three panels deliver comparable performance, however there are differences. Let"s first start with the numbers:

The 13-inch LG panel delivers tangibly worse black levels than the Samsung alternative. There"s even a pretty dramatic difference in black levels between even the 11 and 13-inch Samsung panels. It"s also possible that there"s panel to panel variation at play here that would result in this sort of a difference.

The LG panel is a bit brighter, which helps it reach a decent contrast ratio but the 13-inch Samsung panel"s low black levels give it an advantage. Interestingly enough, the 13-inch LG sample performed very similarly to the 11-inch Samsung. I really do wonder how much of this difference is just normal variance between panels.

Independently, neither the Samsung or LG panels is particularly bad to look at. These are still TN panels so you get poor vertical viewing angles, but the quality is still better than the cheaper TNs we often see used in less expensive notebooks. It"s when you compare the two or you"re used to one that you can really tell a difference: the Samsung panel, particularly when displaying black text on a white background, looks better than the LG.

I had some friends over and tossed them a pair of 13-inch MBAs. One had the LG panel and one had the Samsung panel. They used the MBAs and swapped after a short while. Almost instantaneously they could tell the difference between the panels. Everyone significantly favored the Samsung.

I tried my best to capture the difference between the two panels on camera. The easiest way to describe the difference is text on the Samsung panel just looks darker (mouse over the panel name in the table below):

Just like last time, I believe the two panels behave differently in how they react to off-center viewing angles but I couldn"t really capture the slight differences on camera. Although I didn"t have an AUO equipped MBA on hand, the one I saw in an Apple store looked closer to the LG than the Samsung.

The obvious problem with this solution is you need access to a decent colorimeter or spectrophotometer and calibration software. There are some color profiles floating around the web that may help (I"ve uploaded mine for the LG here, Samsung here) but every panel is going to be at least somewhat different so this is still not perfect.

Subjectively, I"m fine with the LG panel, although I do like the look of the Samsung better. Both are a bit of a disappointment compared to what you get from the Retina Display in the MacBook Pro however. It"s just presently what you give up for portability and cost.

The thing about the MacBook Air is that it"s already quite minimized on the inside. The vast majority of the chassis is occupied by a battery, and there"s no traditional HDD or optical drive to remove for additional space. Apple can"t simply toss a much higher resolution panel on the system and call it a day, at least not without a tangible reduction in battery life.

Apple had to give the MacBook Pro with Retina Display a 95Wh battery (up from 77.5Wh) just to deliver similar battery life to the regular MacBook Pro. The higher resolution display requires a brighter backlight to push light through the panel and maintain comparable brightness levels.

In the short term Apple could opt for a slightly thicker chassis (similar to what happened in the 3rd gen iPad) to accommodate a larger battery. Eventually the hope is that panel efficiency will increase to the point where we won"t need significantly brighter backlights.

As long as the edges around the screen aren’t dented and there are no bends to the display, an LCD panel replacement is all that is needed for a cracked screen repair.

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MacBook Airs are great portable machines, but they are a little fragile when it comes to dropping or bending. I get numerous reports that the MacBook Air screens seem to break on their own during regular use, especially the newer M1 2020 MacBook Airs.

However your MacBook Air was damaged, if it has a cracked or broken LCD, let me help! As one of the few repair shops that provide component-level repair for MacBook Air displays, I have the services you need to get your Air fixed quickly and affordably. My screen repair offerings include MacBook Air LCD replacements for a fraction of the cost of replacing the entire display. By replacing just the broken component (the LCD panel), I can save you $100’s. If you want to see the process for these repairs, check out my MacBook Air screen repair guide.

I offer low-cost screen repair for almost every 13″ MacBook Air. My pricing is a flat fee based on the model computer you have. If you would like to learn more about the cost of replacing a MacBook Air screen, I have an entire page dedicated to the cost of MacBook Air screen repair.

My service includes replacing your cracked or broken LCD with a brand-new panel. You can click on the images below to see some examples of MacBook Airs that required LCD panel replacements. If your Mac looks anything like the ones below, you likely need a new LCD! If you are unsure what you need, feel free to chat with us at the bottom of this page, or contact us here. You can even submit a photo of the damage on your computer and we will get back to you with what you need.

While most screen repairs do not require any difference in service, there are a couple of scenarios that come up once in a while with LCD-only replacements on MacBook Airs.

When something hits the MacBook Air screen from the back or very hard, sometimes the backlight sheets get damaged as well as the LCD. The backlight LED’s shine up from the bottom of the laptop and reflect off a white sheet of paper-like substance. There are additional sheets after this white sheet that diffuse the backlight and spread it evenly through the LCD panel.

Normally, we can just replace the LCD and any backlight issues are purely cosmetic. As you can see in the picture below, a damaged backlight usually causes white spots on the LCD. Normally this white spot is only where the impact point is.

So if the computer got hit from the back or front hard enough to damage the backlight, we can either replace the entire screen assembly for a possible additional fee or just replace the LCD and ignore the cosmetic white spot. If you want to read more about this issue, here is a White Spot On Backlight post on our blog.

Most MacBook Air models do not require us to replace the whole assembly. However, if you would like the entire display housing replaced during service to get rid of dents, damaged corners, etc… we can replace the entire assembly during service (usually for an extra fee).

If you wish to have us replace the entire display, please let us know so we can look up the exact cost for repair and send you a quote for approval before we complete the work.

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