With such minimal benefit to screen real estate, the last thing you would want the notch to do is then interfere with the day-to-day experience of using your MacBook Pro. This leaves its only particular value as offering a questionable 1 cm, or about 0.39-inch, strip of pixels of additional screen real estate. However, the notch on the new MacBook Pro display only houses a camera with Face ID absent, seemingly because the top lid of the MacBook Pro is too thin to house its components. While the iPhone notch has copped its fair share of criticism for intruding into the iPhone UI/UX, it has at least served a dual purpose as both a selfie camera and by providing Face ID biometric authentication. According to Dong, rather than taking a circuitous route around the notch when controlling the mouse, the cursor will disappear under the notch on its way across to the other side before reappearing. Apple designer Linda Dong has responded to a question on Twitter asking how the mouse cursor will interact with the notch. Now it appears there may be at least one other instance where the new MacBook Pro notch could prove problematic. While some have been able to see the potential benefits of additional screen real-estate offered by pushing the Menu bar upwards and surrounding the notch on either side, others have been less forgiving. While Apple’s silicon has won plaudits, reaction to the latest display notch to appear on an Apple device has been divided. Apple’s all-new and long-awaited MacBook Pro models are finally here powered by its new high-performance and high-efficiency M1 Pro and M1 Max SoCs.