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New MacBook Pro Could Have a Notch, Says Sketchy Last-Minute Rumor

Kissmo1980 said:
The only way to introduce a notch is to keep the same layout and add extra pixels where the menu bar would be placed. But that would be weird! A broken menu….

creative professionals would hate it
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Creative professionals also rely on external monitors. I'm not an expert, but I find it hard to believe they can make do with just a 16" display for their work.
 
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CarlJ said:
Yep, at this point, I’m gonna guess it is a 16:10 “screen”, and your normal menu bar and such sits within the 16:10 area, and the notch stripe contains the notch (obviously), along with some of the indicators that traditionally occupy the right side of the menu bar, like signal strength and volume indicators, the clock, and such, similar to what they do on the iPhone. Existing software doesn’t need to know about it, they see an unbroken 16:10 rectangle, probably some new functions in the OS to manipulate the new regions to the left and right of the notch.
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If there is to be a notch, this is absolutely the most logical use for those 74 “extra height” pixels.

Especially if there’s also a 5G radio.
 
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While it clearly looks like a joke, I wouldn't be surprised if they do it. I mean, it seems they have undone several stupid things from the past in these news MBPs (they remove the candybar, they bring magsafe again...), so the "creative" dudes working at the "New Apple (TM)" will be pretty sad... letting them put a notch may help to make them happy again.
 
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CarlJ said:
Take away the bezels and the things around you in real life just intrude more on the screen, coming right up against the on-screen pixels. 98% bezel-less is not necessarily a big win.
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It would be a big win for me, BUT then again, I’m one of those that like glossy screens and aren’t distracted by the reflections in it. A screen that goes all the way to the edge in a laptop device, to me, would just mean that, given the size of this computer, it has physically the LARGEST screen it could possibly have. And for me, that’s a good thing.
 
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CarlJ said:
All reports are the new models will have an entirely newly designed chassis, there’s zero need to keep the same dismensions as the old chassis, so that suggestion doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
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Newly designed doesn’t mean it will be very visibly different, though. I mean, just having a different size and different ports requires a new design.
 
CarlJ said:
There’s an entire 16:10 screen below the 74px top stripe that has the camera notch (all hypothetical until Monday, of course). Why do people keep assuming that that top stripe will be part of the menu bar and desktop? Put the entire desktop and menubar below the stripe, in that 16:10 area, you know, like it has been for over a decade, and put ancillary information to in the stripe to the left and right of the notch.
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So you mean put there the ancillary information that already live in the menu bar on the right? I think it would make absolutely no sense at all to not move the notch into the center of the menu bar.
orthorim said:
The only thing worse than a notch would be 2 notches.

Please no. I don't care about the functions, the aesthetics will kill me, I have to look at the thing every day.
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I bet you wouldn't even notice it during daily tasks.
Le0M said:
Just a thought: the "all-black-keyboard" could be a touch screen with physical keys carved into the glass. That would be a screen for touch controls AND a physical keyboard at the same time.
I've been wishing this would come true for years. I hope that time has come!
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I don't get that concept. So you have moving keys that are all together a touch screen?
 
Hey pitchfork-raising and torch-bearing zero-bezel mob members!

Rumors like this are because of YOU!

Stop the madness. #bezelsmattertoo

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Le0M said:
having a notch also means that when you open the lid the fingerprints will not be on the display.
I actually think it's pretty smart, and by looking at the mockup up here, it wouldn't look bad at all.
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Instead your finger prints will be all over the camera lens, so video calls will look gross unless you clean it. Not that smart when you think it through.
 
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orthorim said:
The only thing worse than a notch would be 2 notches.

Please no. I don't care about the functions, the aesthetics will kill me, I have to look at the thing every day.
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I hope the M1x laptop displays have postage stamp edges. So like LOTS of notches from the perforation aesthetic. It’d be easy to hide the camera and FaceID sensor then.
 
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mike... said:
Instead your finger prints will be all over the camera lens, so video calls will look gross unless you clean it. Not that smart when you think it through.
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But that doesn't have anything to do with the notch. There is already a camera just where you open the lid.

But also there are already no fingerprints on the display. I would't call something thats keeps things as they are especially smart.
 
I hope it has a notch, because the first thing I'm going to do when I get it is cover the lens with a bandaid or something, and I don't want to have to cover the viewing screen to do that. If I can't cover the lens without blocking the screen, I'll have to buy something else.
 
One thing for sure: the wait is funnier when we don’t have EVERYTHING spoiled (like it has happened for iPhones lately).
 
JCarmona said:
Click bait.

iPad doesn't have notch.
New iPhone has smaller notch
iPhone 14/15 rumoured to not have a notch

If the statements above weren't true, it could be Apple's trademark, but it isn't.
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iPad has a notch that goes alllll the way around. ;)
 
CarlJ said:
There’s an entire 16:10 screen below the 74px top stripe that has the camera notch (all hypothetical until Monday, of course). Why do people keep assuming that that top stripe will be part of the menu bar and desktop? Put the entire desktop and menubar below the stripe, in that 16:10 area, you know, like it has been for over a decade, and put ancillary information to in the stripe to the left and right of the notch.
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Because that is bad from a usability point of view; especially for people with motor damage and control issues. Right now you can just move the pointer to the top of the screen and click because the hit target reaches the edge of the screen. If the menu bar is lower then you have an added layer of precision which is required to reliably use the menu bar.
 
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The notch is not a brand icon common now. Who writes this.
The home button was the iconic iPhone look. The notch is a middle point in technology that doesn’t mean it’s an iconic apple thing. Once it’s gone nobody will cry about it. People did cry about the home button though.
 
Juuro said:
So you mean put there the ancillary information that already live in the menu bar on the right? I think it would make absolutely no sense at all to not move the notch into the center of the menu bar.

I bet you wouldn't even notice it during daily tasks.

I don't get that concept. So you have moving keys that are all together a touch screen?
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Imagine a flat glass surface in place of the actual keyboard. Then, each key is cut out, while remaining into place. When you press on them, they go below the surface. So basically the default would be a flat surface when keys are not pressed, unlike now, in which the surface is not flat until all keys are pressed.
 
Le0M said:
Imagine a flat glass surface in place of the actual keyboard. Then, each key is cut out, while remaining into place. When you press on them, they go below the surface. So basically the default would be a flat surface when keys are not pressed, unlike now, in which the surface is not flat until all keys are pressed.
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Do you think Apple is going to take a chance on a new and even crazier keyboard this soon after the butterfly-keyboard fiasco?
 
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