[kossTKR]

For the love of god remove the notch, that's the only idiotic branding vestige left.

[mort96]

And put the web cam where?

The notch is bigger than it should be for sure, I would've loved for it to be narrower. But I don't really mind the trade-off it represents.

You could add half an inch of screen bezel and make the machine bigger, just to fit the web cam. Or you could remove half an inch of screen , essentially making the "notch" stretch across the whole top of the laptop. Or you could find some compromised place to put the camera, like those Dell laptops which put the camera near the hinge. Or you can let the screen fill the whole lid of the laptop, with a cut-out for the camera, and design the GUI such that the menu bar fills the part of the screen that's interrupted by the notch.

I personally don't mind that last option. For my needs, it might very well be the best alternative. If I needed a bigger below-the-notch area, I could get the 16" option instead of the 14" option.

[mirekrusin]

Two cameras on the top corners or 4 in each corner for better gaussian splatting.

[joking]

I don't have a problem with the notch, I have a problem with the icons not showing in the status bar and there isn't a *** way to show them. It's so difficult to add a overflow button that shows the hidden icons?

[bobthepanda]

I wonder how hard it would be to have a camera 'pop up' from the laptop. (i'm not a hardware guy)

[hu3]

Dell XPS has webcam, no notch and same o bezel as macbooks.

Maybe it's a patent thing.

[brookst]

You want a strip of black plastic across the entire top rather than pixels to the left and right of the cameras?