I read somewhere that they won’t be introducing any MacBooks at all. They’re going to announce a new Mac Mini, a 30” iMac and Apple glasses which will be named iSee.
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New MacBook Pro Could Have a Notch, Says Sketchy Last-Minute Rumor
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A potential problem with a notch in a MBP is that MBP's, unlike iPhones, often drive an external monitor. And external monitors don't have notches.
Thus if you modify the software so that menu bar icons automatically rearrange themselves to leave room in the middle for a notch, that's going to add a black notch (or blank space) to to how the image is displayed on an external monitor, which no user that has an external monitor is going to like. Of course, I suppose the OS could always detect which monitor is being used as the main monitor and adjust appropriately, but that adds complexity.
Thus if you modify the software so that menu bar icons automatically rearrange themselves to leave room in the middle for a notch, that's going to add a black notch (or blank space) to to how the image is displayed on an external monitor, which no user that has an external monitor is going to like. Of course, I suppose the OS could always detect which monitor is being used as the main monitor and adjust appropriately, but that adds complexity.
Two reasons to add a notch would be to have almost non-existent bezels and to add a better webcam, the notch could be few mm ticker than the screen itself and enable them to put an high res cam.
At the same time adding a notch would require the software to accomodate for it, and if ti was true by now I guess someone would have found hints of that in the beta codebase.
At the same time adding a notch would require the software to accomodate for it, and if ti was true by now I guess someone would have found hints of that in the beta codebase.
Of course there would not be an black useless notch on an external display. Yes, that adds complexity to the code of macOS. But every new feature does. And it should not be that difficult. Simply every external display doesn't get a notch.
Isn't that what a debate is? Presenting your side of an argument and trying to convince others of it?
I’m thinking this is an edge case because anyone with an external monitor wouldn’t be mirroring, would they? Because if they are, they’re already accepting a compromise of having a small screen projected to a higher resolution external one. Once you’ve accepted the chunky pixels as “ok”, a blank space in the menu bar is just another minor thing to not like added on top of that.
They might when projecting*, but yeah, not in typical office use.
*) What I'd personally love is something else: disable mirroring, but have a mini-version of the second display on the internal display. Kind of like how presenter mode in Keynote works.
I think they're pulling our leg. legs. I suppose it's better than pulling a finger, right?
Your new avatar is kind of dark on my screen. Is that you in a dark room? 🤭
Are you calling me a nobody, Kemosabe?
Maybe he called you a nobody too?
Yeah, his name's not nobody either!
The politicians aren't ready to let us unmuzzle. Should retain touch-access for as long as we're prevented from being a free society.
You made me think of the "Notch Family". That Samsung commercial was hilarious!
You’re arguing based on the assumption that you’ll be able to move the mouse cursor up into that stripe. I’m suggesting that the limit of your mouse pointer’s travel may ne just below that stripe. Slam the cursor “all the way to the top” and it still ends up on the traditional menu bar at the top of the addressable area. The stripe with the camera notch and the signal strength indicators and such sit above the menu bar, and the mouse can‘t get there. Zero effect on usability.
that works, sort of, right up to the point where you have an app that occupies more than (slightly less than) the left half of the menubar - get too many choices and it crashes into the notch. Then what, stop on the left side pf the cameras and pick up again on the right side? Not very Apple.
So what are you going to use that display only area for. Its no good receiving notifications up there if you cant click on them and most of the menubar icons have right-click functionality.
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Instead of working out an answer for you just for the sake of argument, I’d rather wait a couple of hours to see what Apple has to say about it. Debating how it’ll work now, seems a little silly. I still think the idea is plausible (I’m not saying I wholeheartedly agree that designing it that way is a great idea and that I would have done it that way, just that I think Apple may have done it like that). We’ll find out if I’m right in a couple of hours.
As a matter of fact, I make my money in the Windows world and already have more than 1 laptop and desktop, and I did switch to an android phone. (Samsung Flip3)
I ran MacOS at home because I liked it, same goes for the iPhone, though i used it at work until recently.
Quoting myself to own up to how wrong I was. Oops! Ordered a 14" anyway. Get it the first week of November.
Apart from your second sentence you were pretty much spot on!Yep, this didn't age well. I guess I was totally wrong. Sorry
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