Tech Friday: My MacOS gripe of wasted space of menu bar height
Posted By RichC on September 20, 2024
One of the “very few” complaints with the Apple MacBook Air M2 is that macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 (and likely all recent MacOS versions) does not have a way to make the menu bar smaller in height. This is the one display dimension that has been the most difficult to get use to in coming from twin 27” side-by-side displays (iMac and Apple LED Cinema Display). Even with the old iMac running MacOS Catalina v10.15.7 the menu bar did not “waste” as much vertical screen real estate as the MacBook.
Comparing MacBook Air M2 Sonoma (left) to iMac 27” Catalina (right)
There is an control center adjustment to “hide” the menu bar on the MacBook Air, but … and a big BUT … is that the space gained is only visually hiding the menu text and does gain any useable space. One gains nothing in the display height dimension unlike perhaps removing the visual space under the notch extending the full width of the MacBook’s display?
Come on Apple, “think a little different” (smarter) for those of us wanting just a little more useable space on our ever shrinking notebook computer displays.
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