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First Real-World Photos and Video of New MacBook Pro Models Begin to Surface
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But at least the menu bar does not look butt ugly being stretch 50% vertically… ☹️
Cool, now show us all the windows laptops with super-thin bezels + decent 1080p webcam? All I ever see is that Dell XPS, which is called out in reviews as having a ******* webcam as its worst feature. So yeah, Dell managed to cram a 720p with tiny sensors in that bezel by giving zero ****s about its quality. Other manufacturers are putting crowns on top of the display to house the camera, they're putting webcams in the bottom bezel or in the keyboard (better groom those nose hairs), or just removing them entirely. A good webcam in a thin bezel laptop is not as solved as a lot of you keep suggesting. *Everyone* is making compromises.
On the bright side, at least with Apple's solution, I guarantee there will be plenty of software workarounds available the day of launch for all you folks who can't stand it and care more about aesthetics vs vertical screen space.
Macs (and iPhones and iPods) used to be white. It was THE most iconic component of Apple computer designs for many many years*.
Yet, people have been going absolutely ballistic over the white bezels of the new iMacs or the recent rumors of white bezels on the next Macbook Air.
Go figure.
As for the notch, I will never understand all the hyperventilating. Just as with the 'chin'. I don't notice either of them. Or care about them. Sometimes it feels like people look for things to complain about solely for the sake of complaining.
(*including the illuminated Apple logo on the back of Macbooks, yet everyone seemed to be fine when they did away with that -- I for one still miss it)
I think you're right about it being a change made primarily for the sake of looking different from the old model but I also think it's an intentional style tribute to the PowerBook G4 Ti, a laptop that looks very similar (in shape) to the new MacBook Pro. That keyboard looked like a black block in the machine rather than having too much contrast in between the keys:
It can't run Cyberpunk 2077, not because it's not powerful, but CP2077 uses DirectX 12, which even Parallels Desktop 17.1 doesn't support.
You can play DirectX 11 games though.
The Pro on the left is uglier than the Pro on the right...
Exactly what I was thinking. Even move the entire screen down so we have no bottom chin and a bigger top chin so the notch is hidden.
Also why does the XPS have no notch?
We all know there's no way Jobs would have accepted this...
Are you sure it’s just a “paint job”? I speculated it is a no individual key cut on chassi, but rather a cheaper to produce, one cut with a polymer slab keyboard slapped in it. If true this makes me more disgusted with the design has I can’t cut some slack for the sake of “keeping the price reasonable” argument. The thing looks awfully generic.
The "old" design is just fine. The whole bezel thing was extremely overblown by the community & now a segment is angry about the notch.
The way I’m expecting, the notch will likely be between menu icons, rendering it more unnoticeable.
Looks like you’ll have to wait for the “square macaroons” Airs for that alluring effect…meanwhile these are for work?Ha. You called?
When I got my white 12" iBook, all of a sudden pretty young women came out of the woodwork to ask me about it. I'd be out and about like in a cafe or something and randomly they'd come up to me and strike up a conversation. Being a straight guy, I was quite pleased with all the attention, even if it was really just for my iBook.
But then I upgraded to a 15" PowerBook Titanium, and all of that attention just stopped.
It’s all well and good till you have your hands on the keyboard and can’t see the screen.
That’s the welcome screen and if you have the Apple wallpaper up on the screen the notch will be less noticeable at least that’s what has been said. The dark wallpaper blends with the notch ?
A laptop screen is on constantly, your phone screen is not. In comparison your phone screen is on a tiny fraction of the time your laptop or monitor is on. This is why oled sucks for computing, it has image retention in a short period of time and every time you “condition” the display to remove retention it reduces the life of the display.
You mean “good old stuff”, right?The new black keyboard makes the previous one look old
Won’t the menu icons take up the space aside the notch making it more unnoticeable?
Can’t understand people complaining about having more screen size. I guess people plan to look more at the notch than whatever they’ll be doing on these powerful machines??