The screen is a 16:10 screen with some extra pixels added next to the notch.
By default, the system uses a resolution of 1512x982 (14"), which you can change to 1512x945 (16:10) to move the menu bar below the notch and end up with black pixels next to the notch.
"If you go make weird contortions and workarounds you might just find a semi-working non-solution to a problem that didn't exist until Apple introduced it".
Also my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909996
What MacBook doesn't have a camera?
They are being sarcastic because the parent post put forward a false dichotomy between a notch and a camera or no notch but no camera.
Re:Blurry rendering of games on Mac
by monsieurbanana on Saturday August 16, 2025 @05:40AM
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I didn't think this would be so hard to understand. It's not a false dichotomy, without the notch the screen would have to be smaller to have the camera there. You didn't lose any pixels.
Yup. We never had camera before the notch.
> The notch makes for a smaller menu bar but without the notch there would be no menu bar there
Yup. Before the notch we neither had a menu bar that could comfortably fit most menu items even in professional apps, nor did we have a camera.
BTW, you literally are saying "The notch makes for a smaller menu bar". Imagine if I wrote that as the first sentence in my comment, then there would be no misunderstanding