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I own a M1 MBP. What you wrote about notch isn't a fact but a (controversial) opinion. Some people feel very strongly about it in a negative way, but many don'
by Fnoord 3y ago
I own a M1 MBP.
What you wrote about notch isn't a fact but a (controversial) opinion. Some people feel very strongly about it in a negative way, but many don't care.
Personally, I don't care much about notches, and if you can put the pixels very dark/black (ie. OLED) I don't think you should care either. With Settings -> Accessibility -> Reduce Transparency you can make the menubar very dark. But to be fair, miniLED isn't OLED.
I am using Bartender to hide items in menubar. I did so before notch existed. Without it, I wouldn't be able to fit my menubar (with or without notch).
- bombcar 3y agoI prefer to think of it as two large full-color notches going upwards as compared to a small black notch coming down. Too bad they didn't increase the resolution of the display slightly for that.
- selectodude 3y agoThey absolutely did though. The notched MacBooks are 15.5:10 instead of 16:10.
- bombcar 3y agoI'm honestly amazed I didn't know that, perhaps Apple should have shipped the NotchBook Pro™ with the menubar below the notch, and everything above black, and had a setting you could change to turn it to how it is now.
- Fnoord 3y agoThere's some apps in the App Store which allow you to, on top of the accessibility setting I mentioned earlier. It isn't ideal. Let me put it this way: if too many people dislike the notch, I'm cool they go without it. Or have two versions. The issue simply doesn't bother me, I'm indifferent about it. MBPs have had much worse issues between 2016 and 2020.
- bombcar 3y agoYeah, the notch is not a real issue for me, though I did end up getting Bartender to work around it when on laptop only. The phone notch is much less annoying now that they did whatever they did in the latest iOS to make it hardly noticeable.