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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..

You must taking the piss. There no other explanation. Cheers

Sorry. I will shut up now …

Asus couldn't unilaterally make changes to Windows basic UI, probably?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/samsung-tablet-leak-shows-notched-display-just-like-in-the-new-macbook-pro/

Everyone saw the Macbook Pro announcement last week, right? Apple has made the controversial design decision to bring the iPhone notch to some of its laptops, minimizing bezel space but introducing an awkward cutout on the display area. Now, Samsung is apparently working on bringing the same idea to tablets. The reliable leaker, Steve Hemmerstoffer, aka "OnLeaks," has created renders of the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra design, and it basically looks like someone cut off the top half of a Macbook Pro, complete with that weird notch.
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Notching a tablet is a pretty strange idea. Was anyone calling for smaller bezels than what you get in something like the leaked S8 Tab design? You hold a tablet by its bezels, so the goal shouldn't be a zero-bezel device like on a smartphone. The move will get Samsung some attention, though.

putting a notch on a thing you sometimes use in portrait and sometimes in landscape and on which the bezels are actually useful.

not the thread for it but i'm intrigued by this drooling review and some of the features they talk about sound pretty useful

https://gizmodo.com/the-pixel-6-is-so-good-why-buy-anything-else-1847927331

am I too late to hop in on some hot notch action

the notch can be your niche if you can fit your commentary in the slot

rowr

I'm pretty close to buying an iPhone after years of Android, mostly because I'm missing some action on the group chat (video gets shared via iMessage only, FaceTime etc)

The only thing holding me back at this point is that it is sooooo nice to have only USB-C charging - phone, iPad, MacBook all use the same charger.

Are you by any chance an undercover official of the European Commission, in propagandising mode or perhaps hoping to out any unwary Brexit-leaning Apple fans: EU common charging solution ?

I'm just a normal consumer out here saying that the charging port and fast charging technology must be harmonised.

calstars you can have the old display back https://topnotch.app/

I'm pretty close to buying an iPhone after years of Android, mostly because I'm missing some action on the group chat (video gets shared via iMessage only, FaceTime etc)

The only thing holding me back at this point is that it is sooooo nice to have only USB-C charging - phone, iPad, MacBook all use the same charger.

I've got some great news for you, lukas:

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/04/usb-c-iphone-ebay-auction/

;_;

dumb question - i have an old macbook pro (like about eight years old) that i mostly use for making music. it works pretty well but it runs slow, especially starting back up and starting applications. would installing more RAM help with this? if so, seems like an easy/cheap fix, right?

you have an SSD drive or regular?

probably regular - looks like that was the default

Generally speaking ram is an easier upgrade on old macs. switching to an SSD is a bigger performance boost but involves a reinstall or data migration and is trickier to physically install. This is all assuming your Mac is old enough for both parts to be user replaceable.

if it's possible to do an SSD, that's a huge boost. It's not so hard. If you have an old machine w/ an optical drive you can replace that with the SSD, then transfer everything over to the SSD and boot up with that. You've also just doubled your storage.

The alternative is to buy an SSD and a $10 external USB enclosure (anything SATA to USB3 off eBay will do, pretty much) then use the free CarbonCopyCloner to duplicate the internal drive to the SSD in the case. Switch the drives and you now have an internal SSD and an external backup drive in the case. The switch is the most challenging but it’d be about a dozen small screws (line them up on a flat fridge magnet to preserve the arrangement) and a couple of small Torx screws mounting the disk in its rubber mounts. Half an hour’s work. I’ve done this about 10-15 times for a range of people’s laptops.

8 years old is on the cusp of when they started to switch to SSDs so you better google the model number (hold down option key, choose System Info under the Apple menu)

Or just look in in the Storage section of About This Mac’s System Report

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203001

use the free CarbonCopyCloner to duplicate the internal drive to the SSD in the case. Switch the drives and you now have an internal SSD and an external backup drive in the case.

Why is that? Haven’t used it in a while but used to depend on superduper.

Alba holding the option key takes you straight there without going thru About This Mac.
And I have used CCC to create bootable HDD clones up to at least 10.13, and that machine wouldn't run anything more recent.

Apfs means there’s lots of volumes on a disk, and cryptographic signatures of volumes means a naive bit for bit copy won’t boot. The CCC and super duper maintainers are doing heroics but seem to be on the verge of giving up on the bootable clone use case for apple silicon.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/03/10/the-role-of-bootable-duplicates-in-a-modern-backup-strategy/

and https://bombich.com/blog/2021/05/19/beyond-bootable-backups-adapting-recovery-strategies-evolving-platform

Great, thanks for the info. I just updated my home computer from Mojave to Monterey (I know) and it froze near the end. I waited hours then finally gave up. Rebooted and installed again but instead of updating my system disk it did a clean install, so I was afraid I’d lost lots of settings and things. Was esp worried about losing iTunes/music playlists. So I did a migration from my time machine and almost everything is back in order.

Macs last so long now for a lot of people that I think they don’t realise how good migration has become over the past five years or so.

yeah I was always pro super duper because just cloning back to my start-up disk from a day or two ago seemed easier than some sketchy "maybe there's some stuff I can dig out of time machine" but really this worked incredibly smooth.

My only problem now is I can't get back to a song I was working on in ableton, probably because it uses some plug-in that's not playing nice with Monterey. I think I had already wiped all my 32-bit relics but who knows.

ugh it's not 32bit that's an issue, it's probably aggressive gatekeepering from OSX on these plugins that I have to figure out a workaround.

For calstars

@siracusa the "cleanest" way to get rid of the notch without having to deal with a suboptimal resolution is to just set a 16:10 resolution:https://t.co/N2E0RkHypS

— Roberto Jung Drebes (@drebes) November 5, 2021

they don’t realise how good migration has become over the past five years or so

oh and it was running 10.13 uneventfully, without errors on the drive. Can't recall if it was APFS but I doubt it.

Alba holding the option key takes you straight there without going thru About This Mac.

oh yeah! I'm used to asking for diagnostic info from my folks over the phone, which involves the minimum number of clicks and least opportunity for confusion ...

Adam Engst! TidBits! Man I had forgotten about them.

huh

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-announces-self-service-repair/