Apple’s upcoming MacBook Pro refresh may eliminate the awful notch, marking the company’s most significant laptop update in five years.
Lillian Chen and Emily Kuo for DIGITIMES Asia:
As Samsung Display (SDC) secures its first-ever OLED panel order for Apple’s MacBook, Chinese panel maker Beijing Oriental Electronics (BOE) is positioning itself to target any supply gaps, pushing to become a supplier for OLED panels used in iPads. If successful, this could threaten South Korea’s dominance in OLED technology.
Market research firm Omdia reports that Apple will switch from LCD TFT panels to OLED panels for its MacBook Pro lineup starting in 2026. Lina Lin, senior analyst for display at Omdia, stated that SDC will likely enter Apple’s supply chain for OLED panels for future MacBook Pro models. Due to this switch, Apple is reportedly planning to switch from a notch to a pill-shaped cutout for future MacBook Pro models.
MacDailyNews Take: The notch was always bad design; an inelegant kludge. The Dynamic Island and pill-shaped cutout on iPhone helped immensely. Time for MacBook Pro to finally join the party!
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I have a MBP with the notch, doesn’t bother me one bit.
Much whining about a non-problem.
Neither a notch nor a cutout make sense in a MacBook.
Placed in the middle of its menu bar, this notch is not a problem at all.
Maybe it’s just me, but….
I think a talented new grad with a UI focus could wrangle the mess that is “Settings” into rationality?
The “notch” is a passive effect of Design, really…but AAPL’s spell ck and word suggestion “feature,” is active & dumbfounding in the days of “smart computing” (this term used b/c AI is still in research phase at APPL).
So many great items on the imagined list. If even half of them are true, this MBP will be epic. A true game changer and set the bar for all future devices.