Truth. I hate being that guy but this is one thing Steve would have gone mental over.
He got upset about the G3 iMac having a disk tray rather than a slot. If something like that bothered him he sure as hell would have hated the notch.
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He got upset about the G3 iMac having a disk tray rather than a slot. If something like that bothered him he sure as hell would have hated the notch.
I have No idea. There must be a few that develops obsession on notch or anything Apple comes up with in general.
I suspect just like my first iPhone with a notch that I’ll notice it for a day or two then completely forget it’s there.
"You're using the wrong language"
It's funny though, someone did bring this up to that one Apple Designer on twitter and their response was basically just, "yep, that's a challenge!" with no actual solution
I don’t think so. We just understand why it’s there.
The notch will make the menu bar slightly shorter and split in two. The OS will prevent the applications to use that space, so I guess in your case the menu entries will be reduced or a couple of them will appear to the right of the notch.
The alternative is that you have an entire menu bar, but less vertical screen space since the menu bar would be below the notch and eat into the 16:10 portion of the screen.
Well, both sound weird and scary.
But I think that the notch will just hide the menu items and I will have to find them underneath. Fortunately I mostly use the external monitor.Well, both sound weird and scary.
Well, it's a compromise a way or the other. I personally like having more screen available since I often work without external monitor. The practical considerations for me me overshadow the "worse" aesthetics of a split menu bar.
It wasn't a justification for a notch. It was a justification for Apple not putting Face ID on any Mac. Those are two different things. No matter what Apple does for purchases on a Mac, it'll be awkward. Most of us are assuming the notch is as wide as it is because Apple plans on putting Face ID sensors in there in the next year or two and doesn't want to change the notch size later. What if Rene is right and Apple never puts Face ID on Macs?
Your idea on attention-required won't work since you're almost always staring at the screen. How does the Mac know if you're intending to authenticate or are simply staring at the screen reading something? This problem is why iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches all require double presses on a button before authenticating a purchase. Rene has a point. If you're forced to touch a button anyway, Face ID isn't that useful for authenticating purchases. It is very useful for unlocking the Mac. The only thing I can think of is to remove Touch ID on Macs, add Face ID, and require users to hit some key combo. But again, it's awkward. People would then scream that Apple removed Touch ID.
Don't get me wrong. I want Face ID on all Macs. Rene just brought up something I had never thought about, so I figured I'd mention it here in case others hadn't thought of it either. I couldn't think of a reason why Apple hadn't put Face ID on Macs, starting with the M1 24-inch iMacs, but this hypothesis gives me pause.
It does? Well at least that’s good news but literally makes the whole space unusable unless you want to deal with the notch and menus bar. Can always turn it black but that still has all that unused space for nothing.
Yesh like if you turn up to a corporate venue and only have access to ethernet.
If you don’t have a dongle you are pretty much screwed.
Or if a customer gives you a peripheral with USB-A, if you don’t have a dongle you are pretty much screwed.
But I’m used to it, with my iPhone when my bluetooth headphones run out of battery I’m pretty much screwed if i dont have a dongle.
I remember a time when i could just plug things into a laptop without needing a dingle dangle dongle.
Oh happy days where have you gone…….?
The notch area is space you never had on a previous MBP. It's now extra space on either side for the menu bar. The area below the notch is the traditional area you'd have for your screen, including the menu bar. It's not perfect, but it's a pretty good way to give us more screen. Notch on phone = rubbish. Notch on MBP = clever. it ain't perfect and it's ugly, but it works.
Not hating it doesn't equal loving it. I don't mind the notch at all, probably won't notice it like I won't notice it on my phone.
That being said, the whole hating it, calling it an atrocity etc. is just as ridiculous as the ones claiming they love it. Nobody here has even touched or seen one of the new MacBook Pro's.
This has been answered again and again yet people still asks. ?
Let me guess,.. Fandroids flooding Twitter with this Dell laptop on MBP tweets and no one bother to check spec?
The notch does not bother me, but it is true that, in this model, it makes no sense, not having FaceID. I assume that the next update will have it, but so far we do not find it, so it is even more shocking if possible.
In iMacs I do not think we will see them, they have larger bezels and, having the chin, I do not think they will leave chin and notch, although being Apple, anything could happen ???.
In iMacs I do not think we will see them, they have larger bezels and, having the chin, I do not think they will leave chin and notch, although being Apple, anything could happen ???.
Something seems off when looking at that taskbar / notch design. Taskbar is too massive in relation to the camera bump. Sure, you could call it a notch as well. And tell everybody its an advantage. Design wise, thats not just how Apple would have solved the problem. It rather feels like a last minute design decision.
Why isn't taskbar notch seamlessly integrated into another? Why is there no desktop/taskbar background that supports that idea? This thing is not ready for prime time. Apple as I used to know it, would have found a way to make it just right.
Why isn't taskbar notch seamlessly integrated into another? Why is there no desktop/taskbar background that supports that idea? This thing is not ready for prime time. Apple as I used to know it, would have found a way to make it just right.
It wasn’t tacky at all.
Hopefully they’ll bring it back again.
Not if the notch is there to house the Face ID sensors in the next update to the MacBook lineup!
You should be careful until someone has testet it.
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