Seems like the notch is definitely coming. No FaceID though
Edit: I was wrong: they include 720p cameras...
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MacBook Pro Display With Notch Shown in Alleged Photo Leak
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Edit: I was wrong: they include 720p cameras...
I find it sad that all the media (including podcasts) are so focused on resolution. The problem with MacBook cameras isn't the resolution. 720p is plenty for video conferencing. The problem is poor lighting and poor sensor, neither of which can be easily fixed without making the lid thicker.
Of course they will outsell, because we have a chip shortage and people will buy anything they can get their hands on. Why do you think the M1 Macs sold so well? Because no one else had stock and in the middle of a pandemic with people working from home, people/companies needed much more hardware and Apple was sitting on stock. When you go to Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. you have delivery times of 6 to 10 months! So of course people will buy these, not because it's Apple, but because they need to browse the web, write emails and use Word/Excel and Apple is pretty much the only one who has some stock left, because they sell so few laptops/desktops to begin with.
Watch sales drop for them massively once the chip shortage is over. I have to use a Razer Blade Studio with RTX 5000 in addition to my fully loaded MBP. I wanted something lighter for travel so I decided to get a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen9 last week, which I can hook up to a eGPU. Estimated delivery was May 2022! Same for Dell and others. I played around with different configurations and ended up with a config I didn't want, but bought because I can still get it this year. So many people are in the same situation right now. Just look at the GPU market, people buying $400 cards for over $2k.
iPad Pro is considerably thicker than the screen of the laptop so they can’t without making the screen thicker I suppose
you'll be over it the moment you open the lid...
Most of that doesn't work through different builds; instead, macOS detects the hardware and then selectively enables features.
However, a special build for a new hardware model is not at all unprecedented. (12.0.1 or 12.1 would then unify them.)
Damn it....I did it again! I always confuse micro-LED and mini-LED!
This is true, but that is still one build of the OS with code for all of those features despite their being turned off in some computers. So far while we've seen code for screen resolutions of computers that don't exist, we haven't see code to accomodate a notch that might exist.
Also needs padding from menubar sides, and some sort of overflow implementation for menu and status bar items.
Notch is starting to make sense to me as long as it's always black and is there to statically display menu bar and nothing else, i.e. zoomed in content can't be displayed in that area.
That mockup shows exactly why there will not be a notch. Look at the absurd upper corner radius cutting right next to the Apple logo and clock-- there is no way Apple would do that. They might round the display corners a couple mm like early Apple computers, but nothing like that.
Look at the radius of a window in macOS, then center that on the physical case corner radius. There'd still be a thin bezel that could easily contain the camera module.
Anyway, this rumor is pretty silly. What do you think a "normal" bezeled display+camera with the panel removed looks like? It looks like a camera module under where the bezel will be. Just like the photo in the article.
I also think that wouldn’t look bad. Enable dark mode and disable transparency and you’re good to go.
Another year, another rumored design people are threatening to riot against, wishing for the old Apple team because of, etc. No matter what, they'll sell like hotcakes, and in a couple weeks we'll be tracking them across the world. As if the notch stopped consumers from buying an (Pro) iPhone the first couple years. Why would a laptop be any different?
As if the notch stopped consumers from buying an (Pro) iPhone the first couple years. Why would a laptop be any different?
It wouldn't be. But now if there is no notch, we will see people complaining about how they wish it had a notch.
Wow…that would have to get better just to suck!
not only the, MR folks will be BRAGGING about these MacBooks ...Another year, another rumored design people are threatening to riot against, wishing for the old Apple team because of, etc. No matter what, they'll sell like hotcakes, and in a couple weeks we'll be tracking them across the world.
If the screen gets rounded corners it will likely be the same, much smaller radius as the iPads. I'm actually fine with slightly rounded corners and Apple could accommodate them by increasing the extreme left and right menu-bar padding, but look at that weird padding difference on either side of the notch.
Still, Im upgrading notch or otherwise.
They were doing all of this just fine with the current camera.