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Now that there's the 13 inch iPad I am praying they remove the display notch on the Macbooks. It's a little wacky when you've intentionally cut a hole out of your laptop screen just to make it look like your phones did 2 generations ago and now you sell a tablet with the same screen size without that hole.

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I really hate the notch[0], but I do like that the screen stretches into the top that would otherwise be entry. It's unsightly, but we did gain from it.

[0] Many people report that they stop noticing the notch pretty quickly, but that's never been the case for me. It's a constant eyesore.

A big issue with the thin bezels I am now noticing is you lose what used to be a buffer for fingerprints from opening the lid.

What I've done is use a wallpaper that is black at the top. On the MBP's OLED screen that means the black bezel perfectly blends into the now black menu bar. It's pretty much a perfect solution but the problem it's solving is ridiculous IMO.

I do the same, I can’t see the notch and got a surprise the other day when my mouse cursor disappeared for a moment.

I don’t get the hate for the notch tho. The way I see it, they pushed the menus out of the screen and up into their own dedicated little area. We get more room for content.

It’s like the touchbar for menus. Oh, ok, now I know why people hate it. /jk

> The way I see it, they pushed the menus out of the screen and up into their own dedicated little area. We get more room for content.

Exactly - laughed at first but it quickly made sense if they are prioritizing decent webcam quality. Before my M1 Pro 14 I had a Dell XPS 13 that also had tiny bezels but squeezed the camera into the very thin top bezel. The result was a terrible webcam that I gladly traded for a notch and a better camera quality.

However, that Dell did still fit Windows Hello (face unlock) capability into that small bezel, so the absence of FaceID despite having the notch is a bit shit.

Here’s a handy free utility to automate this for you: https://topnotch.app

Personally I never see the desktop background so I just set desktop to Black, it’s perfect for me.

Thanks!

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