Comment by Fnoord
5 months 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).
I 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.
They absolutely did though. The notched MacBooks are 15.5:10 instead of 16:10.
I'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.
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