As for games running on Apple Silicon, here's a fairly comprehensive list including performance:
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Yes. The experience might not be quite what you're looking for (I don't know whether pinching/zooming or other multi-finger gestures would behave correctly), but in general it should work.
Full screen apps will automatically run in the 16x10 space under the notch with the menu bar area turned black. Apps that want to use the space around the notch, say for an information space, can request it from an API call. No blocking is necessary since the OS will handle it for you.
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So in 2021 it’s possible to run Android apps on an iPad Pro M1.
Or Fortnite, for that matter.
There's even a checkbox in that app to "add" the notch to older MacBook's! Take my money!
More to the point, they'll actually be running on the M1 Mac (running Parallels Desktop running Windows 11 running Windows Subsystem for Android), using the iPad Pro as an external display.
By the same logic, you could run Commodore 64 games on an iPad Pro by using it as an external display on a Mac running a C64 emulator.
iStatMenus or some similar utility that dumps Mac statistics into the menu bar will almost certainly cause issues since the data takes up almost the entire menu bar. I’m guessing the company that makes that is already hard at work figuring how to solve that.
Your 12.9" iPad is considerably thicker than the screen of an MBP
Already a solved problem, application menus always take precedent over menu utilities.
I agree with your logic!
Wasn’t Apple the company that implemented DRM?
Apple doesn’t make Parallels.
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Apple was going to take flack no matter what they did. If they left a forehead they’d be crucified for huge bezels. If they put the camera on the bottom people would complain that you can see up their nose. There is no perfect solution given today’s technology.
Sure but wouldn’t there be the problem that those utilities would end up showing very little to nothing, reducing the demand for such a utility? I use that utility now and with a sizable chunk of menu bar space taken out at all times, not much info would be left. Maybe it won’t be as bad as I’m imagining it to be. People assume that very little space is ever used in the menu bar and therefore the notch won’t be a problem. I’m used to a crowded menu bar where there’s almost no empty space.
Oh well. I guess we’ll find out Tuesday.
So, considering that Mac supports Steam, and you can use Sidecar on iPad Pro M1 to run Windows 11 and Android through Parallels, and that Xbox and PS5 can be streamed to iPad Pro M1 using a client, what games cannot be run on an iPad?
Only Nintendo Switch?
Does the AppStore even matter?
And to that point, you can play Fortnite legally on an iPad using PS5:
Only Nintendo Switch?
Does the AppStore even matter?
And to that point, you can play Fortnite legally on an iPad using PS5:
Dell notebooks with minimal thin bezels (bezels just like new Apple notebooks have) do not have any notch. The camera is integrated in the top very thin bezel.
To the original article, people are arguing about a notch on a computer that seems capable of running any OS (Windows, Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, etc.).
Hey, that's legit. I guess if I had my druthers, I'd love for the iPhone to have both TouchID and FaceID. ... Same for the laptops, if I'm honest. I really like the possibilities of both. I love the feeling of "commitment" that TouchID gives on my MBP, but the convenience of FaceID would be awesome.
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Ultimately people are suggesting:
“I’m not super impressed with the notch, even though it runs 16:10. I’m going to leave the Apple ecosystem and get a Windows 11 machine running Android apps. Even though I can already do that on the M1.”
“I’m not super impressed with the notch, even though it runs 16:10. I’m going to leave the Apple ecosystem and get a Windows 11 machine running Android apps. Even though I can already do that on the M1.”
Apple knows it's controversial since the notch is eating up a portion of the menu bar so first they dropped a last minute rumor about it a day before launch here on macrumors, then they hid it in marketing campaign images and then rushed and paid iJustine to do damage control with happy and positive statements about the notch. It's fugly and people will find creative ways to hide it.
There’s a lot of people that hide the menu bar. Now if you hide it and use a full screen anything you’ll see a notch.