Development of LED Faster than Expected

LED backlighting is becoming a popular feature in notebook as it is a power saving and environment-friendly solution. Both points boosted its adoption in notebooks and manufacturers have invested in R&D to improve the technology further. LED backlighting-enable notebook will represent 15% of manufactured units for the quarter of the year, and market share should rise to 30 to 40% in 2009. Dell already announced its plan to move 80% of its notebook models to LED backlighting in 2009 and 100% in 2010. On its side, only the MacBook does not feature such LCD lighting technology and we would not be surprise to see Apple to be the first PC manufacturer to entirely move its notebook offer to LED backlighting; the same way it was the first to drop CRT display.