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Call me when they remove the notch. Maybe one other actual tangible improvement would be a low-profile mechanical keyboard.

Outside of that the Macbooks are pretty much perfect already.

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I wonder if an under-display camera[0] would be good enough for a laptop? If Apple truly is pivoting to OLED, this option becomes available, and it's been proven to be pretty OK by various phones.

Obviously this won't provide amazing footage, but if you're making high-quality footage for e.g. YouTube you probably want to buy a dedicated camera anyway.

[0]: For example, see https://www.tomsguide.com/news/the-battle-of-the-under-displ...

Ideal if you want a view of someone's nostrils. You can probably basically get away with it on a phone, but we've _seen_ what happens when you try it on a laptop: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/the-dell-xps-13-finally-...

Sounds like an excellent excuse for "digital makeup" in Zoom.

Another option is an angled camera from the main body. Apple can already track faces digitally.

Those cameras exist in a lot of Windows laptops and are generally ridiculed as "nose cameras". Probably not the best idea.

True. The counterargument is that if you care about quality, you're already better off with Continuity Camera, so maybe you already view the built-in as just a backup.

A MagSafe charging spot on the back of the monitor would be a nice touch. Charge your phone there and its camera is clipped in place by default.

I literally never notice the “notch”.

Good for you. I do though.

I've set my macbook pro 14 display resolution to 1920x1200, and the OS will paint a black where the notch is. the menu bar is just below.

1920x1200 is absolutely usable as a resolution on a 14" display and I don't miss the higher one.

So i don't get the notch, even though i'm on a m1 pro macbook pro. Bonus point: i don't get those dumb round corners.

Have you tried one of the free tools that color the menu bar black? Life changing.

If the camera stays in place, remove the notch == replace the top strip of pixels with dead space?

Yes, do that. People had zero problems with "dead space" for decades.

They already do that when you full screen anything with the notch.

You can get exactly that experience with the current hardware. Just set the screen resolution to a 16:10 one.

Bingo. It's a nice trick because you get the menu bar space back to.

Install nuke notch and live the rest of your life notch free

> perfect already

Come on, you need more imagination. NFC, folding screen, face id, eye tracking, touchscreen, co2 sensor, presence detection, titanium.

Would be nice if it also folds the laundry. :)

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