Controversial new MacBook Pro design rumour emerges ahead of Apple event

A photo of a MacBook Pro on a black background.
(Image credit: Arthur Whitehead)

There are only a few hours to go before Apple's 'Unleashed' Event, in which we're expecting to see the biggest revamp of the MacBook since 2016. And as the internet goes into anticipation hyperdrive, the rumours are getting wilder and wilder. And this last-minute leak suggests the Mac could be about to borrow one of the iPhone's most controversial design features.

The new MacBook Pro (expected to be called the MacBook M1X) is rumoured to be gaining a notch at the top of the screen (as will, allegedly, the next MacBook Air). Which is somewhat, er, unexpected. The notch on the iPhone, after all, is broadly hated by an army of Apple fans, who have eagerly campaigned for its demise. Would the company really bring it to the MacBook?

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Tom May

Tom May is an award-winning journalist and editor specialising in design, photography and technology. Author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Great TED Talks: Creativity, published by Pavilion Books, Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. Today, he is a regular contributor to Creative Bloq and its sister sites Digital Camera World, T3.com and Tech Radar. He also writes for Creative Boom and works on content marketing projects.