Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

I work closely enough with the data scientists at work that I might be able to swing requesting one of these bad boys

If Apple can now recognise text in images..... can it index that metadata for Spotlight??

Spotlight can’t even index my home folder

the notch on the new pro book displays is hilarious

I don’t see why the notch is a big deal to people, the middle part of the menu bar is dead space anyway.

I have never watched a movie on a laptop, though, because I’m not a disgusting savage.

Exactly 0 % of display real estate is extraneous

Then you will like the notch because it means the bit below the menu bar is 16:10 and more pixels than without the notch.

Basically you have the same screen space you had before, but you no longer lose a strip at the top to a menu bar.

more pixels than without the notch.

You can make a case that it looks bad but you can’t make a case you’re losing “real estate” to it. The alternative is no notch and a smaller screen and a bigger bezel at the top.

No, the alternative is no notch

then where does the camera go?

re: looks bad, I wonder if it would be distracting (or if you'd quickly learn to filter it out) but a black menu bar at the top instead of the gray I have now seems like it would take that out of play.

Completely irrelevant because I priced one that I'd desire (32GB, 2TB SSD) and lol, of course.

No, the alternative is no notch

re: looks bad, I wonder if it would be distracting (or if you'd quickly learn to filter it out) but a black menu bar at the top instead of the gray I have now seems like it would take that out of play.

Cake slaying it itt

https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/_processed_/f/0/csm_MG_2651_e35de15c37.jpg

big nostril energy

You can lose a notch (new MacBooks), or a full width stripe the height of the notch (old MacBooks), or you can have one of those extremely cool pop up nostril cams. Those are the choices.

i thought i remembered somebody (apple?) patenting a camera that could be positioned behind a flat display, like it was actually IN the screen

You guys are so right

duh

i thought i remembered somebody (apple?) patenting a camera that could be positioned behind a flat display, like it was actually IN the screen

i guess part of the problem with that idea is there's more than just the camera in there at this point. there's room for a bank of sensors, and they don't make it big for fun. there's the ambient light sensor, and tbh there's probably face id sensors in there too in a revision or two. the notch is way too wide to just be the camera.

Like uh before the camera was in the bezel now you’re saying the bezel is the display but uhhh

Fuck apple

The bezel is smaller, the screen is bigger, and there’s a notch in it.

What

Jokes aside I don’t see how you can defend a notch in the display like this. Unprecedented and subject to hall of fame ridicule if it were windows

My current one has a notch, it stretches the entire width of the screen. Looking forward to my new MBP with a much smaller notch.

Ugh

I'm unclear what you use the middle of the menu bar for tbh

I give up

It’s a 16/10 screen. the menu bar doesn’t take up space in the 16/10 bit because it’s is up in the bezel. Think of it like that.

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Somehow Tom cook has convinced you that less is more. Enjoy

Less what? The screen is bigger in physical size and pixels.

... it's not less though

These have a 16.2" screen vs. the previous 16"

Sigh n/m brah

The notch on my iMac is a full inch around the screen, it's fucked up IMO

That’s not a notch …

Were you one if those people who complained about the black bars on the top and bottom of movies cutting into the picture?

Lol no

Not sure what else to say… enjoy your notch. It’s totally normal

Lots of laptops these days have a notch

Don’t feel like you’re the only one with a notch

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/6/18170564/asus-zenbook-s13-display-bezels-notch-specs-ces-2019

Tbf I think you’re right that no one is going to copy this. The only hardware manufacturers that could make a laptop with a notch are the ones that control the operating system. And I don’t think Apple or anyone thinks this looks good. It’s just better than the alternatives.

this notch talk is mindnumbing. who fucking cares

The only hardware manufacturers that could make a laptop with a notch are the ones that control the operating system..