Why is it nearly impossible to find a monitor as good as the MacBook Pro's screen?

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Gawd
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I have a MacBook Pro 14" and the screen is absolutely amazing. Black levels are awesome, blooming is practically unnoticeable, goes up to 1600 nits for HDR content, supports Dolby Vision, and color accuracy is excellent. Why is it so hard (or nearly impossible) to find a similar quality MiniLED monitor for PC use?

However, the one thing that the MacBook Pro 14" screen does not do well is pixel response time.
 
Because OLED. And OLED blows MiniLED outta the water... sorta... well least enough that we aren't likely going to see many manufactures push mini-LED much farther. At least not to the same sorta density as 2500 dimming zones on a 14" laptop screen. (For reference though, Because OLED is self emissive, a 4k OLED has 8 million dimming zones. As all pixels are self lit)

Display Ninja looks like they maintain a decent list of Mini-LED monitors.. But there is nothing going for the density of your laptops screen. And we may never see it. It's more complicated to build and harder to tune than just using OLED.

https://www.displayninja.com/mini-led-monitor-list/

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Also worth noting. That while 1600 nits can certainly have a use case on a laptop, because being in bright areas is more likely while mobile... not as much on a desktop. Especially when light control is going to be likely. And DolbyVision... not really common place in apps n' games on Windows, so also not likely going to see many monitors tote support for it.
 
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The Macbook Pro displays have pretty much the worst pixel response times you can buy in a display today. Great at HDR and SDR brightness, terrible in motion.
 
Anyone know what kind of panel (IPS, VA, etc.) the MacBook Pro 14" screen uses?
 
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Anyone know what kind of panel (IPS, VA, etc.) the MacBook Pro 14" screen uses?
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Pretty sure it's an IPS or IPS variant.

Found out that its resolution is actually sub-UHD at 3024x1964, which is a PPI of 258 at an odd aspect ratio of like 17:11. Still much higher than that of a 32" UHD screen.
 
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