God I hate bezels.  I really do.  Besides the obvious - they’re hideous - they just tend to indicate that the device is a cheap piece of crap.  That the manufacturer couldn’t even be bothered to put in an LCD that fits.  I’ve always been aware on some level that thinner bezels look better, but I hadn’t seen it properly implemented until this came out.

That’s how you make a bezel.  Now let’s look at some Fail.

Hey, it’s not like Apple is immune to Fail.

In all fairness, it has been pointed out that it would be hard to hold a tablet if it was all screen. But it sure would be pretty.

The original Asus Eeeeee PC has no excuse.  Well, except that it was designed from the ground up to be cheap crap.

Before there were any pictures of it, the specs just said it was a “7 inch screen laptop,” which I thought sounded pretty awesome.  I remember actually making a barfing sound when it was revealed.  One of the most popular things to do with wasted bezel space is put speakers in it.  Which in this case just emphasizes the tiny screen.

I guess this is kind of supposed to double as a picture frame, but god damn it’s ugly.

It’s literally half bezel.  Gross.

Fortunately, this is mostly a problem in the low to mid-range laptop market.  Televisions, by their very size, tend to have a low bezel to screen ratio, and computers monitors are starting to head the same way.  Most major panel manufacturers even offer truly bezel-less models for use in video walls.

My point is this.  If you’re designing a device of some kind, for the love of god, make the LCD the same size as the frame around it.  Or I’ll blog about it, and make you feel bad.