I was the opposite. I thought it looked terrible but when I saw them in the store I was impressed and forgot about the white bezels quickly.
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Leakers Claim Next MacBook Air Will Have White Notch and Bezels, Here's Why They Could Be Right
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I just can't get behind a white keyboard. In addition to showing dirt more easily backlit keyboards that are lighter in color are harder to read in medium light situations. My old work laptop had a silver body colored keyboard and if the backlight came on and it the ambient lighting wasn't completely dark then the key caps were harder to see.
No need, already tried the 14" Pro, can't get over the notch, too distracting. You do you, but I'm completely ok with this, not heartbroken or anything. The real impact is that Apple will just get fewer dollars from me. They too will be alright.
Speaking of design stupidity… did anyone else file off the sharp points of the lid cavity? I always scratched my wrist on the pointy parts of the aluminium.
How much screen area does the notch add? A menu bar's worth?! If so, hardly worth the controversial aesthetic. Or, to put it differently, not worth a thinner bezel. (Or, how much better is the camera? Slightly? Somewhat?)
Oddly, those colorful machines with the white keyboard and bezels — and even the white notch — look pretty spiffy — and, for some reason, better to my eye than the laptops with the black notch. And, I'm a space grey guy. (Could be that many of the white mock-ups don't have photos on them.)
In any case, as I posted once before, the ancient Romans were right:
Oddly, those colorful machines with the white keyboard and bezels — and even the white notch — look pretty spiffy — and, for some reason, better to my eye than the laptops with the black notch. And, I'm a space grey guy. (Could be that many of the white mock-ups don't have photos on them.)
In any case, as I posted once before, the ancient Romans were right:
De gustibus non est disputandum!
More like:
Ugly colors = average users
Classy colors = pro users
The idea is to make you upgrade just to avoid an ugly device.
The iPhone 12/12 Pro was classic for this. They messed up a bit w the 13 and removed the best 13 Pro color options.
White shows dirt easier and is harder to clean. I really don’t know why anyone would want it. I sure don’t. I will never accept white bezels on ANY of my devices. Ever.
Yes, but just without the white bezels/notch.
Or, I'd actually prefer a 16" MBP w base M1 chip option, so we can get all the ports/audio/screen upgrades. We can't even get the base M1Pro 8/14, which makes the upgrade from base 14" to 16" $500, instead of the $200 it would be if we could get the same base chip. And who knows how much we could save again if we had the simple M1 8/7 or 8/8 option? The MBA M1 8/7 w the same SSD/RAM options as the 14" M1Pro 8/14 is $600 cheaper, so if we could get a 16" M1 8/7, then we'd save another 3 or 4 or 5 hundred surely?
The sales will also drop off on an industrial scale. Imagine the full-screen movie watch mode with a white notch! How TF is that going to work?
I have an M1 Max on order, but oh I'd be so tempted by this Air. It would have shades of the iBook G3. I've always wanted one of those.
White bezels? That would look amazing.
White bezels? That would look amazing.
Yes, bring him back. Function AND form are required, not just function. In Steve's era, Steve ensured that Ives's designs where reigned in to have both. Timmy simply doesn't have the vision or control to use Ives in the correct way.
I bet Ives is both cringing and laughing at the new MBP designs.
I like this, but I also have a new iMac at home and it does indeed look fabulous.
I also think this article is onto something with the distinction between black bezels for advanced photo and video editing and white bezels for home and office-type apps.
I also think this article is onto something with the distinction between black bezels for advanced photo and video editing and white bezels for home and office-type apps.
Admittedly, I just got the base model 14" Pro, but if and when these come out, I would totally want one in yellow or orange. Look good to me in the renders. And just like on this 14" I'm pretty sure the notch would be meaningless to me. I only vaguely noticed it the first couple hours on this new machine and now it's easy to forget it's even there. Just like on the latest iPhones.
I now think Apple has a notch strategy that they started with the iphone to sell phones to people upgrading. Introduce a notch, people don’t like it but put up with it.
make it smaller and those same people upgrade because it’s smaller now. Take away the notch and sell it as a feature.
Same thing is going on with computers now. it’s inevitable that the notch will go away and it will be a selling point for people to upgrade even though their ”old“ machine does already more than they need.
make it smaller and those same people upgrade because it’s smaller now. Take away the notch and sell it as a feature.
Same thing is going on with computers now. it’s inevitable that the notch will go away and it will be a selling point for people to upgrade even though their ”old“ machine does already more than they need.
Lots of people do both. And in reality, there’s pretty much no one who does photo and video editing who doesn’t also use office-type apps. And there’s pretty much no one who wants a home computer who doesn’t want to use it for watching video and looking at photos. So unless they’re coming out with a machine with color-changing bezels, it’s not useful information.
