In promotional materials they often show pictures of the laptops without the notch.
If the notch is such an obvious eye-sore, why aren't they abondoning it?
If the notch is such an obvious eye-sore, why aren't they abondoning it?
The notch is a total non-issue during normal use because it only exists in the menu bar area. It basically looks like another item occupying your menu bar. If you go full screen you still have a notch-free experience.
They probably show it that way in promotional materials because people wrongly assume that it’s a bigger deal than it actually is. Virtually nobody actually cares about it when they start using the laptop.
That’s the default setting. You can choose to have the menu bar there as well in full screen.
Without the ability to produce perfect black around the notch, is the notch not going to be an eyesore even in fullscreen mode? Or is the "Liquid Retina" display close enough that it's basically a non-issue?
I guess I'll find out soon, because one of these M2 Airs will be replacing the 2016 Pro I've been using as soon as I scrape the funds together.
If you have an old app that hasn't been updated, you can enable the "Scale to fit below built-in camera" option on the executable and it will show the full menu bar under the notch, exactly like it worked before the notch existed.
Best way to think about the notch is that it's not subtracting from your 16:10 screen, it's just pushing the menu bar up into the area on either side of the camera. It's previously wasted space that now takes your menu bar so you get the full 16:10 screen for content.