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You can't.
I'd also be worried about the screen cracking if the computer is ever dropped.
It looks pretty, but there are some tradeoffs. Personally I don't get the tech world's fascination with bezels, but that's just me.
I'm... already worried about what would happen to my display if my computer is dropped?
Anyway there very well could be gigantic tradeoffs to difficulty/expense of manufacture, impossibility of accurate QA due to moving too much of the product durability into theory-land (like with Apple's butterfly keyboards), irrelevancy of QA if these things are just hypercars that can't survive real-world use to begin with, difficulty/expense of replacement - though current retina displays already have a lot of those tradeoffs baked in - and,
oh yeah,
You can't tape over the camera.
Which is the only thing that would really turn me off, outside of the worst-case quality management failures coming true. Even though I'm radically pro-bezel when it comes to phones.
Are we ever going to get some of these products made in the US? Or are the materials used in the manufacturing process not allowed by the EPA/OSHA? It's great to think of Apple as an American company, but what percentage of the Apple products are made in the US? Clearly it's not just Apple.
Niet. What have been billed to us as leaps in display technology and laptop lower lid thinness in the last 20 years (including the iPhone and iPad as primarily display technologies backed with novel OS / UI / I/O philosophies) are all all all grounded in refinements to machining + leveraging cheap labor to buy assembly/QA complexity rather than market equal-assembly-complexity (thus equally clunky) electronics to consumers at lower prices, as was the mode of the industry in the 90s.
The US does not have the manufacturing capital required to achieve the first thing - the literal machines that can make screws the size of sand grains, and the machines that make those machines, and the knowledge of which machines are needed, and the corporate QA culture of relentless perfection (what corporate culture does the US have? Jetliners that crash themselves because Boeing didn't want to raise wheel height) all of which constitutes an industry ecosystem that would take decades to grow from scratch - and does not have the cheap labor required to achieve the second. Even our cars - which are the parts that are brought in from Mexico? The most complex to assemble.
Quite an impressive feat. If you ask me, the slimmer the bezels the better. Regardless of whether its a smartphone, TV, monitor or a laptop.
Seems pretty backwards to throw in the towel and have manufacturing in a country that does not embrace tolerance, diversity, personal liberty, opinions that are different than the government leaders, or civil rights. Oh, wait a minute, that sounds like a political party that is in the majority here. Nevermind.
China is complex. Its "middle class" has been educating their young in the U of California network by the tens of thousands for over a decade; they live in China as essentially liberal-minded, diverse, free-thinking business leaders who the CPP knows it cannot really afford to displease, while Xi has no political/relational mechanism at his disposal to replace his aging loyalists with younger replacements. China does a lot of oppression, more every year, but the umbrella of Chinese citizens who are not oppressed is large number in absolute terms, as well. What is more autonomous, antisocial, or middle-finger to the PuBlic HeaLth BoarD, than smoking? - and yet the average Chinese male goes barely three minutes a day without doing just that. We'll see what the next ten years brings.
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