I dunno about that. I prefer ‘the crusty old menu bar’ in these cases to be honest. It’s a trusty place for menus to be, but that may be be just me.Looks like a further encroachment into the toy-ification of the Mac experience if I ever saw one.
I feel a bit bad for Apple here, because they have no choice but to double down on the crusty old app menu when everyone else (Windows, Gnome, KDE) have all moved well past it.
That’s what David Pogue says, and he’s correct.I guess the aesthetic may not be for everyone- but from what I understand it takes up no screen real estate compared to previous iterations. So in actual fact you’re getting more screen. I may be wrong?
Eh, I'm not so sure. I honestly don't think Touchscreen functionality is going to work in a desktop-type computer. It works on iPhones and iPads because those devices are able to be oriented and operated parallel to the ground plane - ie, laying flat. That means that all the operative manipulation occurs with the arms and hands in what is mostly a resting state of being.I think its Apples way of slowly introducing touch to the Mac in a secretive way. Just like when they first introduced native iPad apps with Mojave, Craig claimed this does not suggest they were not doing that. But, if you look at a culmination of things that started happening with the 2015 launch of the retina MacBook (12 inch), the introduction of the Touch Bar based MacBooks: T2 chip, Bridge OS, removing 32 bit support in Catalina and ultimately Apple Silicon, shows that the design was kinda intentional.
Eh, I'm not so sure. I honestly don't think Touchscreen functionality is going to work in a desktop-type computer. It works on iPhones and iPads because those devices are able to be oriented and operated parallel to the ground plane - ie, laying flat. That means that all the operative manipulation occurs with the arms and hands in what is mostly a resting state of being.
However, touchscreens oriented perpendicular to the ground plane, as a computer screen would be, means that your arm has to be held aloft by itself. Easy enough when you only have to tap the screen a few times. But try holding and moving your arm around a screen for just ten minutes. It gets tiring! No, I don't think touch capability is coming to Macs anytime soon, and even should it do so, I don't really think it'll be anything more than a gimmick - I strongly state my belief that it will be as well received as the TouchBar...ie, lukewarm at best and largely ignored by devs.
I have been wondering the same thing. If they had to make the menu bar larger to fit the size of the notch, I would have thought they would have made it exactly the same height. It appears though that the menu bar is even larger than the notch, which seems so odd to me. I honestly think that makes it even worse.It looks like the menu bar is a few pixels taller than it needs to be. Did Apple make it that tall so that the "More Space" mode would still be tall enough to encompass the notch?
However, touchscreens oriented perpendicular to the ground plane, as a computer screen would be, means that your arm has to be held aloft by itself. Easy enough when you only have to tap the screen a few times. But try holding and moving your arm around a screen for just ten minutes. It gets tiring!
I think its Apples way of slowly introducing touch to the Mac in a secretive way.
Wooosh!The notch isn't a big deal, why don't you like it? I don't understand the rage here.