Considering all the blank real estate on the base, for the sake of the goof, you'd think they'd have gone all out and make it a truly huge keyboard that fills up the entire base instead of just the relatively smaller portion that it does.

100 pounds? I mean 50" tvs are relatively light these days, maybe 20 pounds? Even that sounds high. Meanwhile a typical laptop these days must weigh maybe 5 to 10 pounds. Where is all the extra weight coming from? Did they just load up the base with a bunch of extra weight so that it doesn't fall over when you pull up the screen?

I certainly hope not, though someone is trying to convince me that the dynamic island is worth it because it lets you login with your face ID in the dark... like ok, you do you, but that's a ridiculous reason to claim it's worth the loss in screen real-estate.

So you're just ignoring the fact that you can have both face id and finger id at the same time, like I already mentioned? I've never had to turn on any lights or anything silly like that to login to my phone with a biometric in the dark.

Like OK, if you ONLY want to rely on logging in with your face, then yeah I guess an iPhone might be your best bet, but I know I'm far from alone in preferring to have both face and touch id settings active.

If my phone ever failed to log me in with my face or finger, then I might maybe understand why one would opt for the oval, but as things stand, it just makes no sense to me.

Well that seems like a needless insult. I wasn't trying to make you feel dumb or bad or anything silly like that just because you prefer the oval, I'm just trying to properly understand your argument. Which as far as I can tell, relies on my ONLY relying on face ID to login. I do both, face and finger, so I can use the finger in the dark, no need to blind myself or whatever ridiculous scenario you were trying to imagine up to prove that the oval is worth it.

We are talking about the dumb little notch the camera takes up right? How isn't my Android one reliable or responsive? Is it not working immediately every time like I thought it was? It's not like I have to rescan my face or finger every time, gets it right the first time, every time. Very confused.

Well if I were prone to losing my phone, I might be more worried about it's security. But the fingerprint and face scanning work great, and my 15 years of having smartphones has never resulted in any of my shit getting broken into or stolen.

I totally get why people who are careless might be more worried about having the latest and greatest protection, but the reality is, most people should do more than great without losing sleep with what modern Androids offer.

Honestly, I'll take the less sophisticated Android tech over the Apple version if it means I get the hole punch over the oval. It's not like the Android tech is failing me in any way on this matter.

I mean my Galaxy can unlock with my face ID with just the small dot. Perhaps it's not as sophisticated as Apple's Face ID tracking? I dunno, but no one but me has been able to get in my phone with their face, so it's certainly doing it's job as far as my needs are concerned.

I don't know why anyone would prefer the longer more obtrusive oval that Apple offers for the front facing camera over the smaller circle dot of modern android phones. The dynamic island is just a way to try and market a crappier design choice if you ask me.

The fuck is wrong with people?

Pretty cool honestly

But this one comes with a new hat!