I guess you still don't understand what they've done ...
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New MacBook Pro Finally Features a 1080p Webcam Within a Notch
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I will have these menu bar items floating in the void of blackness.
ugly.
and contrary to what Apple claims: not all "Pros" use the dark mode
and contrary to what Apple claims: not all "Pros" use the dark mode
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This! Agree I wouldn’t notice the notch, but no FaceID and a notch?
I hope the next iPad Pro doesn’t have a notch…
I'm legit surprised how ugly this is. The notch looks weird (and for some reason there's no FaceID) and the lower half of the laptop is... frumpy? It's shaped like the pre-Retina Pros, and I'm not liking the all-black keyboard either.
Don't get me wrong, I'll still probably end up buying one, but I'm amazed how downright un-slick it looks.
What a bunch of moaners. You get more screen real estate, people! And the notch disappears when apps are in fullscreen mode anyway. I don’t see the problem with this.
And for those with a weird, OCD style aversion to this, I absolutely guarantee that someone will engineer a way to remove it entirely and switch off those pixels altogether. I actually wouldn’t be surprised if there was an option built into the OS itself to alter the resolution to ignore it.
And for those with a weird, OCD style aversion to this, I absolutely guarantee that someone will engineer a way to remove it entirely and switch off those pixels altogether. I actually wouldn’t be surprised if there was an option built into the OS itself to alter the resolution to ignore it.
You will keep noticing it because we use the menu bar. On iOS we wont use a menu bar.
Solutions. Black wallpaper and hope no apps have too many menu bar items.
Waiting another year for the upgrade then. The 2013 MBP is still kicking, so not a huge deal.
"tHe nOtCh iS HiDeOuS! LitErAlLy uNuSaBLE!"
... according to the people who use their laptops plugged in all day to their desktop monitors.
... according to the people who use their laptops plugged in all day to their desktop monitors.
The size of this notch seems like it is a foretelling of future FaceID on the MBP’s, because there is no way they need that much room for the camera sensor as is. And for all those people complaining about how the notch will destroy the menu bar on some app, I’m pretty sure app developers will update menu bar coding to take the notch into account.
The thing that throws me off on these new MBP’s isn’t the notch, it’s the overall design that looks far less modern in my opinion than products like the iPad Pro (which I love and use as my daily work driver). I guess it makes sense given how the iPhone 12 and 13 are inspired from iPhone designs from the past (4 & 5). Apple really seems to be going back to right a bunch of wrongs from the Jony Ive days of the thinner the better.
The thing that throws me off on these new MBP’s isn’t the notch, it’s the overall design that looks far less modern in my opinion than products like the iPad Pro (which I love and use as my daily work driver). I guess it makes sense given how the iPhone 12 and 13 are inspired from iPhone designs from the past (4 & 5). Apple really seems to be going back to right a bunch of wrongs from the Jony Ive days of the thinner the better.
Lots of great improvements to the current models, but I won't be buying. Hopefully Apple will get rid of the notch and bring back the thicker bezel. This whole thinness design thing needs to die a swift death. The notch makes it look weird, like something that's out of place.
There is one benefit.
Maybe this is why Apple did it.
People will stop putting webcam covers and blue tape on their notch that makes them crack their screen LOL
I guarantee you there will be an app that puts a black bar there - and you can use it.
The iPad case has flat sides so the camera can be closer to the edge. The MacBook lids have rounded edges which means the camera has to be inset more from the edge.
If you were watching fullscreen on previous models, you already had black bars at the top and bottom for 16:9 content. If you expanded the video to crop the sides, you got 16:10, which is the ratio of the screen area below the notch now.
Based on their presentation, default fullscreen excludes the menu/notch area, probably with the ability for developers to use the additional space if they want to by designing around the notch).
So, basically, this won't change anything.
They're sitting on billions of dollars surely they could invest a little more in R&D and come up with a camera that doesn't need a chin to fit in.
We don’t know yet if all the menu items are uninterrupted. If you use lower resolution scaled settings many apps will have menu items that cover the whole bar or almost.
The new design is slightly odd in that it's neither curvy nor a square design. Looks like a first draft rather than the final product. The feet also don't seem to match the new design.
Finally camera gets a huge upgrade. Maybe the notch will house a FaceID sensor in the future.
