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Why does the MacBook air have a silver bezel?
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I don't mind the fact that the bezel is not black, my issue is that it looks like the glass was just removed and a piece is missing, it's a poorly designed solution !!!! It doesn't look that good, it should be designed so the LCD panel sits flush with the bezel !!!!! I prefer matte screens over mirrors, but the design solutions are very weak for matte options on macs these days, it has been a while since the ACD's and pre uni body macbook pros.
Lol, I remember when at mockup starting floating around. I'm thankful Apple will never make anything quite as fugly and useless.
Looks at my 2011 Lenovo T410 (work laptop), there's a fairly large bezel here. The 2012 X220,T420,T520 have an even larger bezel thanks to the switch to 16:9 screens.
I like the idea of little to no bezel, but I think previous posters are right. It's about having somewhere to put your fingers opening/closing it. Similar to the iPad.
Really? I guess I'm "holding it wrong" because I never touch the bezel when opening it. I lift from the center where its notched straightup and adjust by holding at the side or top edges.
I greatly appreciate the aluminum bezel on the Air for this very reason. I did like the look of the black bezel on my old MacBook, but it was impossible to keep clean. There were fingerprints all along the edges just from opening the lid.
Huh.. So 11" MBA will become 13" and 13" will become 15".
If you are talking about the black bezel on mbp, remember that mbps have a black glass bezel to sandwich the LCD in between, that's why there's no silver metal bezel Mbps. Theres no glass in MBA to keep it light and slim.Apple solved that problem in retina Mbps. Here's the link->
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/1...os-retina-display-reveals-engineering-marvel/
Personally, the silver bezel has grown on me and I've gotten used to it. I think it looks good, although for my wish list I would like it to be thinner due to a slightly larger screen.
But anyway this thread reminded me of something I saw posted in this forum a few days ago that some of you may want to check out. This company "precious skins" appears to make a stick on overlay to change the color of the bezel. The product shots look nice, but it's hard to tell whether it would look high quality or cheap up close on a real machine.
But anyway this thread reminded me of something I saw posted in this forum a few days ago that some of you may want to check out. This company "precious skins" appears to make a stick on overlay to change the color of the bezel. The product shots look nice, but it's hard to tell whether it would look high quality or cheap up close on a real machine.
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I was going to buy one until I noticed the fugly logo in the bottom right corner.
They spoiled a decent product with a badly-designed attempt at branding.
MacBook Pro with the logo.
http://www.precioustore.com/catalog/product/gallery/id/186/image/497/
i have 11-ich Macbook Air and it's the best laptop i have ever owned.However,i think the MBP design with black bezel is the best laptop design of all time....so i'm hoping they offer black bezel on the Macbook Airs or combine the two lines in one laptops line in the future.
After seeing iFixit's teardown of how the Retina MBP's screen is put together, I wouldn't be surprised to see the same thing come to the Air someday.
The obvious reasons against them including the glass overlay in the Air are weight and thickness, but making the LCD's own top layer extend to the edge of the bezel seems to solve those.
The obvious reasons against them including the glass overlay in the Air are weight and thickness, but making the LCD's own top layer extend to the edge of the bezel seems to solve those.
Do we really need 3/4" of aluminum for structural rigidity as a bezel? I hardly think so. If you fashion a piece of aluminum shaped like angle iron (one strip at 90 degrees to the other, length-wise) and make it out of 1/8th" aluminum that is 1/16th" thick, that will have enough structural rigidity to keep even bodybuilders from being able to do much damage to it.
If you use that same technology to fashion the entire screen back (laptop lid) with edges 90 degrees to the back and a 1/8th" bezel lip 90 degrees from that, it would be more than strong enough. If there are forces at work short of throwing the thing out a window that could actually flex a laptop made this way with just a 1/8th" bezel, your laptop is facing forces much more daunting than simply what can happen if you pick it up by the lid, or from dropping it, which means you have much larger problems.
In short, there is no design parameter requiring this; nor is there any excuse why the MBA has it other than simply a piss-poor design choice.
A big thick laptop bezel says 1998. A big thick aluminum/silver/platinum bezel says 1958 Motorola B&W 17" CRT-based TV. The bezel is the one thing that really seems more like a design flaw than anything else about the MBA. It is ironically retro for being part of the much-aped leading design in its category, and not in a good way.
If I were Tim Cook, I would have visited Jon Ive even before the casket was closed, and the first thing I would have said to him is "your job depends on making it your top design priority to find a way to get rid of that ridiculous bezel".
Exactly my thought... I've sent them an E-Mail asking if it's possible to order one without that hideous logo on the bottom-right corner. Most likely it won't be possible, but at least I'll know for sure...
Really failed branding attempt. Don't understand why certain incompetent monkeys think it's cool to stick their ugly logos everywhere. They should at least offer a logoless option too...
Just a small update regarding the Precious black bezel ( http://www.precioustore.com/macbook-air/black-macbook-air/air-13-black.html )... They guys from Precious replied and although they do not offer a logoless version ( which is a tiny bit sad ), people can still "workaround" the issue a bit if they really want to:
The final thingie would look like the following:
... of course, it's not "perfect", but it's something I can live with.
Hope it helps!
The final thingie would look like the following:
... of course, it's not "perfect", but it's something I can live with.
Hope it helps!
A "mars bar wrapper"! Love it! Blue peter is alive and well!
That means if I got the purple or green I could use quality street wrappers to change the colour of the P too.
That means if I got the purple or green I could use quality street wrappers to change the colour of the P too.
This is great -- exactly what I'm looking for!!! One question: Does the infrared sensor to the left of the iSight still work with the skin on??? (The sensor used to automatically recognize lower light settings, etc.) If the skin covers it up, I'd be afraid that screen might not automatically adjust itself as Apple designed.
I used to think I couldn't stand the silver bezel. However, now that I have a macbook air... it doesn't bother me at all! I actually kind of like it because it does not reflect anything and i just forget it's there. I also have been working on a macbook pro... I thought I would like the black bezel better, but that's actually not the case. The black bezel is very prone to glare and can get annoying.