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It sits there continuously triggering me like talking to someone who is blissfully unaware that they have spinach stuck in their teeth. It’s a shame that the notch is the only glaring problem I have with the laptop. Apple does this with its own apps too – Safari, Logic, Facetime – going to show that even its own apps can’t account for the notch.
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From what I can tell, the notch is visible ONLY on your desktop or when you have multiple windows open… but when you maximize a task or program, the top of your display turns into a black bar, making that entire strip of screen useless for 99% of your time using the laptop. One can’t help but feel baffled and slightly short-changed here. This means the MacBook Pro has a notch, but doesn’t have the benefits of it, i.e., FaceID or Memojis. So what’s inside that notch? Well, just a camera. Hilariously, the notch on Apple’s M1 Pro MacBooks doesn’t even do FaceID (there’s a TouchID Key on the Keyboard for authentication)… it’s there because someone at Apple thought slimmer bezels would look nice, echoing a rare Jony-Ive-level of narrow-minded thinking that gave us the iPhone Bendgate, the odd Magic Mouse charger, and the lightning connector on the backside of the 1st Gen Apple Pencil. Putting a notch on the iPhone could be classified as innovation back in 2017 (complex facial mapping and recognition on a handheld device… pretty impressive), however, carrying it forward to the laptop feels like a lazy cop-out. It was supposed to eventually be replaced by a hole punch camera, or by a transparent display, but it was never supposed to stick around for so long that it manifested itself onto another range of products. Putting a notch there is just deliberately counterintuitive and downright senseless. The upper part of a laptop screen is often reserved for mission-critical digital elements like menus and toolbars, search bars, filenames, internet browser tabs, and other important information.