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Apple Plans to Obscure MacBook Pro Notch With Wallpaper in Marketing Images

There'd better NOT be a notch! If there IS one, then I'm sticking with my 2010 MBP with the dented case and broken DVD drive. It can't run the latest OS, and most of the software that I DO use is PAINFULLY slow. But that's better than a design cue that doesn't really affect my productivity and that my visual cortex will quickly ignore while giving me absurdly awesome performance.

I mean...that's just LOGIC, right??? ;)
 
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"Thick and heavy" sounds......uh......unlikely. Not very Apple. And the notch? A little odd given the evidence of effort on the iPhone platform to start to move away from it.

Hopefully they did not follow the lemmings and ditch the Touch Bar (which I find very useful) or back off of having four chargeable Thunderbolt ports (nice to have charging ports on both sides using a standard interface).
 
  • The MacBook Pro is "very thick, thick and heavy."
  • The maximum configuration of "32+4T" will be its biggest selling point.
  • Apple will add two large fans to the new chip.
  • "Don't expect too much on narrow borders. It is indeed narrow, but it is not much narrow."
  • Touch Bar is gone.
  • Bezel width remains at the current size, with the bezels at the three sides basically the same width with the bottom bezel thicker.
  • The MacBook Pro "has various curves" to give people an "intuitive feeling that it is a large rectangle."

This sounds like complete BS. ty98‘s credibility has been thoroughly defenestrated.
 
Johny Ive appears against a white background.

The new MacBook Pro is... very thick. Thick and heavy. Don't expect too much. There is no Face ID. The TouchBar is... gone. The new MacBook Pro has various curves. It is designed to give the intuitive feeling that it is a large rectangle.
 
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Mr. Bear said:
There'd better NOT be a notch! If there IS one, then I'm sticking with my 2010 MBP with the dented case and broken DVD drive. It can't run the latest OS, and most of the software that I DO use is PAINFULLY slow. But that's better than a design cue that doesn't really affect my productivity and that my visual cortex will quickly ignore while giving me absurdly awesome performance.

I mean...that's just LOGIC, right??? ;)
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I don’t know about the 2010 but I still have a 2008 MBP that I use a few times a year and it isn’t slow at all.
 
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So proud of their designs they have to use dodgy marketing practices to sell them. Now that’s courage 🤣
 
alFR said:
If the idea that the area either side of it is a new “status bar” area with the normal screen resolution area below it is correct they don’t need to hide it, it’ll be hidden anyway. That could well be what the post from August is referring to.
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Will they make the screens taller to accommodate this? If not then it’s a terrible design for professionals
 
magicschoolbus said:
I don’t understand the notch. Apple pulled off a beautiful design with the iPad Pro screen and there is no notch. It’s built into the bezel which is quite small. Why not just keep that design language and extend the sides and bottom to go more bezel less and just leave the top bezel to feature the hardware underneath.
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Exactly. No notch in the iPPs so why here? ^

If these rumors are all true, glad I’m not in the market for another MacBook Pro.
 
ChrisMoBro said:
Will they make the screens taller to accommodate this? If not then it’s a terrible design for professionals
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Rumour is there’s a normal 16:10 ratio screen area topped with a 74 pixel high “status bar” that contains the notch: see the earlier story on the front page. Sounds like a win-win to me if true - thinner bezels, extra screen real estate, notch not visible as status bar background is black.
 
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Do you really believe that, I am 100% sure that's not going to be the case.
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YEARS of people complaining here about Jony Ives and his quest for thinner thinner thinner. People moaning about it. Now, some rumor-monger says it'll be thicker and heavier and, YES, cue up the complaints. Meaning there is NOTHING that Apple can do that will satisfy some people.
 
So this rumor is basically saying that the M1 die is a chiplet design, and the new MBPs can be configured with two or four chiplets. I.e. An "M1X" is actually just TWO or FOUR M1s with interconnect.

It absolutely makes sense that a laptop with FOUR M1s in it would need significant cooling.

If true, this thing is going to be a beast.

The "bezel" thing I think he actually means "bevel", as in the beveled edges of the aluminum; the shape of the enclosure.

I'm not quite sure how to reconcile this with the "10 core, 8 performance, two efficiency" rumors, but honestly, this sounds much more like a true Pro machine than the previous rumor. Maybe that's the chiplet design for the M2? i.e. "M1" is one 8-core (4+4) chiplet, M1X is two or four M1 chiplets, "M2" is one 10-core (8+2) chiplet, M2X is two or four M2 chiplets.

This honestly makes a lot of sense given how silicon is done today, and the fact that they'll need to put this in a Mac Pro eventually (8 chiplets??).
 
The current iPad Pro has Face ID no notch and a 1080p camera. It would be fully capable of running macOS and Apple would only need to attach a keyboard and a touchpad to it. It would be a far superior device then what we apparently getting tomorrow as new MacBook Pro. ;)
 
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This is going to be the worst design decision Apple will make with regards to Macs. I hated the notch since iPhone X, I will hate the Macbooks if this is true. Apple can make a perfect laptop if they remove the touch bar and add the Apple Silicon with more RAM support.
 
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alFR said:
Rumour is there’s a normal 16:10 ratio screen area topped with a 74 pixel high “status bar” that contains the notch: see the earlier story on the front page. Sounds like a win-win to me if true - thinner bezels, extra screen real estate, notch not visible as status bar background is black.
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So there will be a black status bar along the top? That’s insanely dumb if true. They’re getting rid of a physical bezel to essentially create a digital one.
 
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