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New MacBook Pro Finally Features a 1080p Webcam Within a Notch
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No. You actually innovate by making the camera smaller to fit in a tight space. Other manufacturers are already doing it.
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Gosh dang that is ugly. They're about 8-10 years behind everyone else.
It'll be like the iPhone. After one week you won't even notice it anymore. Just wish they added FaceID.
I'm fine with it. I say that having not used a machine with one on a daily basis so my opinion may change. But, I think it was an unnecessary design compromise they made in order to keep even-less-than-necessary design compromises.
I think it's best to stop thinking of it as having a notch and think of it as having two menu eyebrows.
It is definitely the most elegant notch ever developed. Kudos Apple, way to double down on lazy design!
No but a bigger more usable screen does. You can still watch 16:9 content without it interfering. You only loose a bit of a the menu bar. Curious how apps with lots of menus handle this.
I can't believe they added the notch without adding FaceID. I think this pretty much sinks the rumors of the iPhone losing notch too.
Does not bother me at all. The iPhone prepared me for this.
Doesn't bother me but I am confused at why the display needs a notch and the iPad Pro, Air and mini do not and arguably have a better camera system.
Not by much. Photographers and designers will have hard time editing images in full screen with that notch.
The notch makes me so mad. There's clearly enough room to not have that impinge on the screen, just use a little bigger top margin. No one cares the margin size, except people in apple obsessed with "edge to edge everything"
This is a Pro machine with amazing performance. Try to find a thinner and better looking machine with that kind of power.
They finally made a non-compromise Pro machine deserving of the name.
Consumers will likely be happier with the next Air.
Other manufacturers manage to have infinity displays with similar bezels and no notch 🤷
a mac mini with these specs might be better option to retire my 5.1 MP and cheaper!
The iPhone 12 notch is less than 2mm taller than the newly-thin bezels on the MacBooks, and It takes 1080p video as well and has even more sensors. I totally understand the argument for increased screen real estate, but isn't there a point of diminishing returns? At just 1.8mm, I really have to wonder why they didn't just make the top boarder uniform. It's just a handful of pixels...Why would anyone have an issue with the notch when it is so clearly integrated as part of the menubar system? Looks like good use of otherwise dead space? Unless these people out there have engineered ways to get around the fundamental engineering and physics issues no-one else can?
Now, the fact that the prices keep creeping up – and as a user in Australia I still pay the "far-far away" tax – is a bummer. But no different than ever really. In fact, the M1s have already spoiled us all in reality. Now I have to think about deluding myself that I need a Pro-level machine for my work; the same as 90% of the people that will buy these!
Nice job Apple. Killed the PC industry a little more and then kicked the PC laptop corpse.
Spoiler alert: poorly.
I don’t understand why everyone is praising this. This is ridiculous. I thought Jony Ive was bad but apparently we’ve gone from bad to worse.
Exactly. I was wondering, "what about fullscreen videos," then I remembered they're all 16:9 and this monitor is probably 16:10.
I haven't done macOS app dev in forever, but I think apps use an API that just specifies the ordering of the menu items, so the OS will know how to skip over the notch on its own. It's not like the app draw the menu items itself.
Yeah, that full screen movie stream is gonna look great with the notch. NOT!
This. The screen borders are so close to all the iPads who got FaceID and are notchless.
iPad sales will once again rise, smart play. :|
Dell with their XPS line can do a laptop without a notch, sure it's 720p. But to think this will be accepted is horrible.