Mac Lineup Display Bezel Design Flaw

Since MacBook Early 2015 to MacBook Pro 2018 (that includes new MacBook Air 2018), Apple has not paid attention to a sever Display Design Flaw.


I miss Steve Jobs so badly because should he have lived to this date, he would have certainly noticed the irregular display bezel width seemingly awkward on all Mac lineups starting 2015 with the exception MacBook Pro Retina having SD card slot.


Let's come to the point straight forward. If you have looked at the display of MacBook Pro 2016 to 2018 (both 13.3 & 15.4 inch models) you must have been missing something: the symmetrical order of the bezel all around. This hardly happened to any Mac display until MacBook Retina 2015, the first Mac that dumped the symmetrical display bezel importance and aesthetic beauty.


Look at the top bezel, side bezels and the bottom bezel of the new Mac display. Only the left and right side of the bezels are visually show the same bezel width. The top and the bottom are totally and awkwardly different in width making it look aesthetically unpleasant.


Even going further, look at the bottom bezel with the wordings on it. You will experience a weird combination of the "MacBook Pro" (also applies to MacBook and MacBook Air 2018) wording background bezel stripe. That stripe is a glass material and neither its color matches with the Mac body color (space gray/gold/silver) nor that portion matches the rest of the bezel color (black). Why such? Why would Apple not care here?


What would Apple lose by making top, bottom and sides symmetrical in design?


When you look at most of the Windows PCs, the over-wide lower bezel makes you throw (that's a design havoc). Is Apple smilingly discarding core esthetic, pleasurable and luxury design values which were already the standards of Apple for a long time?


Macs were developed to the nearest esthetic perfection. Off color combination of the bezel around one block display is unacceptable. Off symmetrical is not acceptable to a product that sustained so many years of development towards aesthetic perfection. Mac are not only computers, they are part of glory a Mac user is proud to anticipate, a part of life, a routine and something to be pleased with. A product that is accepted, loved and appreciated by millions of people worldwide also because of its beauty, can't be totally ditched by not paying attention to something that almost stood as perfect as it could be.


May be Steve is no more with us but the legacy of his vision, the eyes that saw flaws instantly, the thoughts that understood and rhymed to millions of people's thoughts, must not be discarded by the company whose foundation is based on the same legacy thus far. The rise of Apple is not only the OS and internals, it is also by its near perfect design pyramid: the display aesthetic which was far superior and symmetrical than any other computer maker's display bezel design in the world. Now it seems like it is being flawed and shadowed.


I urge Apple to correct its design flaw on MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air Display Bezel and refresh 2019 Mac lineup applying symmetrical bezel width and color to the best possible pleasure to the eyes when they see it. A Mac of this extent can't have this level of display bezel design flaw. It's a common sense.


I also urge Apple to take a note from MacBook Pro 17" Late 2011's display bezel near perfection mode for the reference and even improve the superior display bezel aesthetic beauty to give a perfect display bezel width on top, left, right and bottom to all Mac lineup coming in 2019. Apple, are you concerned about this? Or do not even care?

MacBook Pro, macOS Mojave (10.14.1), MacBook Pro 13.3/15.4" 2016 - 2018

Posted on Nov 6, 2018 12:05 PM

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