First Real-World Photos and Video of New MacBook Pro Models Begin to Surface

[matrix07]

Was that bottom chin necessary?

DELL XPS
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I think it's better to have chin on the bottom so the screen wouldn't be too close to the chassis and be too below.

 

[matrix07]

Agree, looks nasty. ?‍♂️ that notch ?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️

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Just use dark screen saver then?

 

[Yamcha]

Honestly, I'm not a fan of the black keyboard area. It looks strange, and it also makes it appear like it's plastic instead of aluminum. Maybe It'll grow on me, but they should've just removed the 'Macbook Pro' logo and made the screen without a notch. I can forgive the notch, but that keyboard doesn't look right to me.

 

[matrix07]

Really starting to worry about how thick these beasts are going to be.

Performance require thickness. If you bother by it just buys M1 MacBook.

 

[matrix07]

The XPS has a webcam too. So no, not only was the bottom chin not necessary, but neither was the notch.

Not all webcams are equal.

 

[matrix07]

The notch isn’t an “iconic” design. I don’t understand why people say this. Every single MacBook and Mac in history never had a notch and were already iconic with just the Apple logo on the back.

It's iconic because of iPhone.

 

[BreakYurAnkles]

I love that its thicker with 16:10 but that price tag though, that's a lot to swallow

with a BMW as your profile picture? I hope you're located in the EU. More specifically Deutschland.

 

[germinator]

AAARRGGHHHH! My eyes! That notch looks absolutely HORRIBLE.

 

[Techwatcher]

The notch looks utterly terrible.

"Doesn't look that bad" = looks ridiculous but I'm willing to live with it because I don't exactly have a choice.

As such,

Lipstick + pig = pig wearing lipstick. All of the 'I don't mind' comments changes nothing.

It had to be said. I swear there's people out there that will convince you that sometimes having no arms is better than having arms. Sigh.

Anyways..nice (expensive!!!!) machines though.

Ok lol.

 

[Tagbert]

The Face ID module is thicker than the lid. If they included that people would be complaining about how thick the lid is...

Or how “hideous” the camera bump is ?

 

[x-evil-x]

It's iconic because of iPhone.

The home button was an iconic design. The notch was a limitation in technology that was taken by apple for more screen real estate. It was never meant to be something iconic like the home button was.
when technology allows it the notch will be long gone and nobody will cry that it’s gone. People still cry the home button is gone.

 

[matrix07]

Not a snarky question: how did Dell get such a thin bezel and fit their camera without a notch? I might be missing something wrt hardware but, it seems like Apple should be able to pull this off too. I don’t follow Dell, so maybe someone on this thread knows the answer.

If Dell XPS laptops can make it, Apple could do it too.

Seriously people, put your critical thinking cap on.

That webcam is only 720p.

And I don't think the Dell has indicator lights but I might be wrong.

 

[x-evil-x]

At this point just put a notch on the Apple Watch

People would say it doesn’t bother them over and over also.

 

[matrix07]

The notch was a limitation in technology that was taken by apple for more screen real estate.

It's a design compromise but it's still iconic for a mere fact of the scale of iPhone popularity.

It was never meant to be something iconic like the home button was.

Nothing is ever meant to be iconic. It is when it ends up is. You could also argue that every major Apple design (compromise or not) are always meant to be iconic if there some design that's meant to be.

 

[x-evil-x]

Doesn’t bother me at all. I don’t even think about it anymore.
“notch nightmares” waking up sweating and crying.

 

[x-evil-x]

It's design compromise but it's still iconic for a mere fact of the scale of iPhone popularity.

Nothing is ever meant to be iconic. It is when it ends up is. You could also argue that every major Apple design (compromise or not) are meant to be iconic.

You think 20 years from now we will look back and think the home button was iconic apple or the notch? i don’t see the notch as anything more than a limitation in technology.

 

[0423MAC]

WOW! The old one looks SOOOO bad.

How can anyone use a 2020 M1 now?

 

[matrix07]

You think 20 years from now we will look back and think the home button was iconic apple or the notch? i don’t see the notch as anything more than a limitation in technology.

That's fine but the iPhone X design will live in the Apple design book.

 

[Tagbert]

No it's absolutely not.

Yup. It is.

 

[X--X]

Yup. It is.

You do realize that the specific camera lenses (used in current iphones) have nothing to do with face id?

 

[EM2013]

The home button was an iconic design. The notch was a limitation in technology that was taken by apple for more screen real estate. It was never meant to be something iconic like the home button was.
when technology allows it the notch will be long gone and nobody will cry that it’s gone. People still cry the home button is gone.

Yeah not iconic just poor design.

 

[x-evil-x]

That's fine but the iPhone X design will live in the Apple design book.

Sure, every design will. Doesn’t mean the notch is a loved design. The home button was.

 

[theorist9]

Not a snarky question: how did Dell get such a thin bezel and fit their camera without a notch? I might be missing something wrt hardware but, it seems like Apple should be able to pull this off too. I don’t follow Dell, so maybe someone on this thread knows the answer.

FWIW, Dell's top bezel isn't quite a thin as Apple's. Apple's is now 3.5 mm, while that on the Dell XPS is 5.6 mm (at least it was in 2020, which is the latest data I could find). So Apple should have been able to get to 5.6 mm as well -- unless they needed more vertical space for the 1080 webcam; all the laptops that currently offer a 1080p webcam (and their aren't many) have thick top bezels:

Best laptops with 1080p webcams in 2024

Looking for a notebook that offers the best quality during video calls? Here are some of the best laptops with 1080p webcams.

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[x-evil-x]

yea, side by side the former 13" mbp keyboard looks so ugly now...the new one i love the black keys on the black chassis of the keyboard itself...it looks far better black on black than black on silver

How can you say a sleeker laptop looks ugly? Common now. It’s thinner and symmetrical.

 

[duanepatrick]

Neat. I still hate the notch tho. I hope they'll add face ID next year.