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There's no notch on the M1 Air. Are you expecting one? Notches are terrible and are enough all alone to make me change what I'll buy.

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The presence of the notch is offset by extra pixels added to the screen height.

Considering the way MacOS's top menu works, notches are a non-issue and you're ultimately getting more screen real estate than the non-notched variants.

Have you given a notched device a fair shake? Not suggesting you haven’t, but I never notice the notch on my iPhone<some number here>

I figured it would drive me nuts

Great for you I suppose?

I have a phone with a punch out camera. Usually I don't even think about it, but when it obscures the things what should be in that place on the screen...

I could tolerate it on a phone, although I'd rather just have a rectangular screen with a bezel for the camera. The whole phone UI can be designed to accommodate it, and it's exceedingly rare that I fullscreen anything on a phone. On a monitor, it would drive me insane; I'm regularly running things full-screen.

> it's exceedingly rare that I fullscreen anything on a phone

So, you just use the home screen then?

> I'm regularly running things full-screen.

well then you won't see the notch, full screen apps are letterboxed across the top

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