Article 5QWTT Apple botched the MacBook Pro notch

Apple botched the MacBook Pro notch

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Chaim Gartenberg
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The day that many have been dreading has finally arrived. Apple has added a notch to its new MacBook Pros. And somehow, Apple - notch pros at this point - managed to utterly botch the notch. Because the new MacBook Pros completely missed out on the most important part of the notch: adding Face ID.

I've been on the record of being extremely pro-MacBook notch: back in 2018, I argued that Apple should do exactly what it's done here: add a notch to its MacBook laptops, taking up the exact width of the persistent menu bar that already permanently lives on the top of its macOS software (barring the occasional dip into a full-screen app).

And to be fair, Apple has actualized most of the benefits of a notch: smaller bezels, particularly at the...

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