A YouTuber created a truly bezel-less MacBook
Are your MacBook bezels driving you mad? Never fear, there's an extravagant and silly way to upgrade to a bezel-free MacBook for just $3,500.
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Alan Truly
February 12, 2024 4:32PM 
Luke MianiWe’ve all seen the concept art of futuristic MacBooks that completely eliminate the bezels around the screen. Those are pure fantasy, even though Apple has significantly reduced bezel thickness on its most recent MacBooks.
However, those millimeters of wasted screen space on a MacBook can be infuriating, especially compared to the concepts out there.
As concocted by YouTuber Luke Miani, that problem’s been solved. Kind of. If you haven’t already guessed, the secret is to use a $3,500 Apple Vision Pro connected to your MacBook as a virtual display. While the Apple Vision Pro has this ability without any need to modify a MacBook, you can spice this concept up quite a bit by removing your MacBook’s screen, making it a headless laptop.
The Vision Pro sees the MacBook and offers to connect, even though it lacks a screen. Luke MianiA headless MacBook sounds spooky, but Luke Miani’s YouTube video will walk you through the steps to convert your 2022 Apple M2 MacBook Air into an ultra-slim headless slab that’s eager to connect to a virtual display. The Vision Pro still sees the MacBook and offers to connect with a button that hovers over the absent screen.
Before beginning this long and dubious journey, note that you can achieve a similar effect without disassembling your MacBook. It takes a fair amount of time and special tools to teardown a MacBook and remove the screen.
Of course, the Vision Pro can make a Mac virtual display much larger. Luke MianiMiani admits it’s a crazy idea, but at the same time, it’s pretty cool-looking. The only reasonable excuse for doing this would be if you already own a Vision Pro and a MacBook with a badly damaged screen.
You could also connect a pair of next-gen smart glasses to your MacBook for an inexpensive 1080p display for about $400.
There are plenty of top-quality USB-C displays if you don’t mind the awkward physicality of that old tech.
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Specs and configurations
Can the Vision Pro play VR games?
A person wearing the Apple Vision Pro overlaid on a screenshot of Half-Life: Alyx. Apple/Valve
The Apple Vision Pro is best described as a spatial computer, but it's also a VR headset with great mixed-reality capabilities.
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The Vision Pro is an exciting new headset that Apple calls a spatial computer, but you might be wondering if the computing really happens on this compact device or if it needs to connect to a computer or a phone for processing. That's a fair question to ask since many AR and VR devices require a separate device for power and computing.
The Vision Pro and the Apple ecosystem
You can still FaceTime friends, family, and co-workers in the Vision Pro. Apple / Apple
So, how does the Apple Vision Pro work, and what's needed to use it as a spatial computer? The good news is this $3,500 device is complete right out of the box. You don't need to buy an iPhone or a Mac to use it. It has an M2 processor inside, uses hand gestures for controls, and the entire operating system is self-contained.
