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What on Earth are these bezels in 2020????

maxbaines 6y ago
Agree its a spec bump rather than a redesign, i for one was waiting / hoping to see the bezels gone.
fermienrico 6y ago
I think I might the only one who likes and wants bezels on everything that has a display. Extra large bezels. Perhaps the only exception would be phones as they increase the size of the device. Bezels are important to frame the screen content from functional perspective. Think of it like a frame for the art work. Black bezels occulude the distracting edges and background noise from the screen and you have always have a constant black border. They can be made to look nice as well like some of those Bang & Olufsen TVs[1] and Sony Trinitron Professional monitors [2]. Contrararily, there is no reason to the opposite besides "aesthetics". Can you think of any? Alas - the momentum behind bezels is so massive, it is impossible to reverse this trend. Same with "borderless" trends in UI/UX. [1] http://www.extravaganzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Bang-Olufsen-BeoVision-10-32-inch-LCD-TV-3.jpg http://www.extravaganzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Bang-... [2] https://www.proav.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/s/o/son1_9.jpg https://www.proav.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/...
- ezluckyfree 6y ago
  I agree that bezels can look good, and small bezels are nice to frame the image as you mentioned, but the iMac bezels are neither small nor good looking. Also for the record, [2] looks extremely bad.
  - fermienrico 6y ago
    [2] Looks extremely good to me. I would pay a hefty premium to get bezels like this on my current LG monitor (which has 15mm or less bezels).
- martini333 6y ago
  I don't mind nicely designed bezels, if they have to be there. It's 2020; they don't.
  - fermienrico 6y ago
    I am arguing that they're invaluable even if they're not needed now that LCD technology has advanced in terms of being able to assemble it. It actually doesn't matter if its a screen, artwork or a photo. IMO bordered (black or white) photos is vastly superior to borderless photos. There is a reason why every museum that displays fine art photography have borders, almost always. I don't see any distinction with screens. Perhaps, even more so important to have distraction free edges on monitors than photos.
filleduchaos 6y ago
What on Earth is everybody's sudden aversion to bezels? To be fair I'm biased because the shift to bezel-less (on phones) was accompanied by a shift to humongous screens that I can't use. Now I'm stuck with the new iPhone SE as my only viable upgrade.
spaceflunky 6y ago
I'm completely let down. I thought they were going to update the form factor
beervirus 6y ago
Big bezels are annoying on portable devices, because they make the devices bigger for a given screen size. They’re pretty irrelevant for a desktop.
- Tepix 6y ago
  Think TVs. Modern TVs have no bezel.
  - beervirus 6y ago
    Yeah, and that’s fine. It’s just aesthetic though. It doesn’t matter all that much in a device that sits in one place.

Agree its a spec bump rather than a redesign, i for one was waiting / hoping to see the bezels gone.

I think I might the only one who likes and wants bezels on everything that has a display. Extra large bezels. Perhaps the only exception would be phones as they increase the size of the device. Bezels are important to frame the screen content from functional perspective. Think of it like a frame for the art work. Black bezels occulude the distracting edges and background noise from the screen and you have always have a constant black border. They can be made to look nice as well like some of those Bang & Olufsen TVs[1] and Sony Trinitron Professional monitors [2]. Contrararily, there is no reason to the opposite besides "aesthetics". Can you think of any? Alas - the momentum behind bezels is so massive, it is impossible to reverse this trend. Same with "borderless" trends in UI/UX. [1] http://www.extravaganzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Bang-Olufsen-BeoVision-10-32-inch-LCD-TV-3.jpg http://www.extravaganzi.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Bang-... [2] https://www.proav.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/s/o/son1_9.jpg https://www.proav.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/...

ezluckyfree 6y ago
I agree that bezels can look good, and small bezels are nice to frame the image as you mentioned, but the iMac bezels are neither small nor good looking. Also for the record, [2] looks extremely bad.
- fermienrico 6y ago
  [2] Looks extremely good to me. I would pay a hefty premium to get bezels like this on my current LG monitor (which has 15mm or less bezels).
martini333 6y ago
I don't mind nicely designed bezels, if they have to be there. It's 2020; they don't.
- fermienrico 6y ago
  I am arguing that they're invaluable even if they're not needed now that LCD technology has advanced in terms of being able to assemble it. It actually doesn't matter if its a screen, artwork or a photo. IMO bordered (black or white) photos is vastly superior to borderless photos. There is a reason why every museum that displays fine art photography have borders, almost always. I don't see any distinction with screens. Perhaps, even more so important to have distraction free edges on monitors than photos.

filleduchaos 6y ago

What on Earth is everybody's sudden aversion to bezels? To be fair I'm biased because the shift to bezel-less (on phones) was accompanied by a shift to humongous screens that I can't use. Now I'm stuck with the new iPhone SE as my only viable upgrade.

spaceflunky 6y ago

I'm completely let down. I thought they were going to update the form factor

beervirus 6y ago

Big bezels are annoying on portable devices, because they make the devices bigger for a given screen size. They’re pretty irrelevant for a desktop.

Tepix 6y ago
Think TVs. Modern TVs have no bezel.
- beervirus 6y ago
  Yeah, and that’s fine. It’s just aesthetic though. It doesn’t matter all that much in a device that sits in one place.