And yes, the notch is where Apple houses a number of important components, which would have been very difficult to fit without increasing the bezel size or reducing the quality of the webcam. It’s a larger and more intrusive notch than what the iPhone has, opting for a boxier shape.
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A notch was even considered as a possibility in the first few years of thin-bezel XPS laptops, but it never came to fruition.Īnd yet, to the surprise of almost everyone, the 2021 MacBook Pro has a big notch hanging down from the top, housing the camera module and a host of other sensors. As companies like Dell pushed forward with razor-thin bezels in the XPS laptops, Apple stayed the course with its thick bezels in the years since then. The idea of a notch in a laptop has been something I’ve been wondering about ever since it debuted on the iPhone X in 2017. That bezel comes with a compromise, of course - though that’s not how Apple will hope you view it. The other small changes to the design include the removal of the “MacBook Pro” logo from the bottom bezel, new rubber feet on the bottom, and ultrathin bezels up top. It’s not unlike the strategy used in fashion and design industries. This is an expensive product, and Apple wants to welcome you to the cool club. That’s why it most certainly includes a black Apple sticker in the box. Like the Space Gray iMac Pro and matching accessories, Apple uses the slightest change in color scheme to give a premium, exclusive feel. It also immediately distinguishes these MacBook Pros from the otherwise similar-looking MacBook Air (and 13-inch MacBook Pro). Silver laptops with black keycaps has become ubiquitous in the laptop world, and the MacBook Pro’s changeup is refreshing. The black keyboard, in particular, feels like a statement piece when so many laptops have copied the MacBook look. Black has become the dominant accent color, gracing both the Apple logo and the backdrop of the keyboard. It’s still made from a unibody aluminum chassis, it still comes in silver or space gray, and there’s still an Apple logo on the lid.īut the changes in this generation aren’t subtle enough to be missed. Taking a step back, the 2021 MacBook Pro still very much looks like a MacBook. You might also want to consider the environment in your decision. buying an adapter to re-use the Apple SSD. You can factor cost & your research time into your tradeoffs for buying a new drive vs. I saw no prices provided on Sintech's website, but another answer stated that his cost was $13.99. However, ferreting through one of the manufacturer's websites (Sintech) provided in this answer led to this page of macbook SSD adapters which may be of some use. Some of the links are now broken, meaning some of the recommended adapters and sources are no longer available. That Q&A pertains to a Macbook Air early 2014 which requires a different adapter than your Macbook Pro 2015, and Your question has now been closed as duplicative, but in reviewing the duplicated Q&A, it will be noted: Making this still more difficult is the fact that Apple changed the SSD interface design periodically, and so the adapter required may be unique to a model or model year. In other words, you can only re-use an Apple SSD in another machine IF you have the correct adapter. Apple's proprietary design of the SSD's connector/interface means that an adapter will be needed to use it in a device with one of the industry standard M.2 interfaces. But as has pointed out in his comment, as a practical matter, the answer is: "It depends".