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Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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Everything they’ve said about the new MacBook Pros is extremely promising, but they had to add a notch to the screen. Just why? All for the sake of reducing the top screen border by a couple of millimeters.

I bet there will be software adding a black line, hiding the notch tomorrow so no big deal. Those are additional pixels anyway.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

#25
post #9

Everything they’ve said about the new MacBook Pros is extremely promising, but they had to add a notch to the screen. Just why? All for the sake of reducing the top screen border by a couple of millimeters.

Top-Center is among the most useless screen real estate. It takes just about the same amount of space as the keyboard language selector a bit to the right, or any one of the menu items to the left. And those two interface never fill up to the point where they need that center spot (or I'd be cleaning out those mostly annoying gadgets top-left).

More smudges on the camera, since this is where the user grabs to open the lid, and the camera seems to be closer to the edge.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

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post #16

Kills the touch bar, the light touch keyboard, adds back weight, card reader, ports and the mag safe. Feels like an apology for prior design decisions. My 2011 MBP is new again!

I was laughing when every single one of these changes was presented as "revolutionary" in the keynote. No, you just had to revert everything because your previous revolution was universally hated by users.

Re: MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

#30

So basically apple just went back to the things they tried to fix that weren't broken and then messed up the aesthetics by making it a design from 2010 and added a notch. Why do they do this. Does the design team not understand how to design macbook pros ?

So, they were wrong when they removed those things, and they were wrong again when they put them back?
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