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Backlit Apple Logo Could Make a Comeback on Future MacBooks
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Slowly heading back toward the 2015 MacBook Pro. The best MacBook Pro design IMO.
No. And even if I did, I'd have indirect/ambient lights on at least somewhere in the room...
Kinda part of the reason why my TV has Hue play (because for some friggin reason Philips doesn't sell ambient light TVs in the US) because it's just so much easier on your eyes instead of looking at a screen in complete darkness...
Ha, I once caught a student cheating due to that glowing Apple icon
. The exam software we had only supported Windows. He had his Windows laptop connected to a MacBook, and was accessing the Internet during the exam.BTW I did fight for exam software that supported MacOS. It then made me smile as I saw more and more glowing icons in the classroom.
I've missed it!!
Would be nice if they bring it back with the option to have just the outline of the logo lit up.. I think that would be very classy!
Would be nice if they bring it back with the option to have just the outline of the logo lit up.. I think that would be very classy!
I welcome the return of backlit logo if future MacBook design allows - it made MacBook easily recognisable around campus. While we're bringing back earlier elements, can we have the 27/32 iMac with black bezel back asap thanks?
This pic is very cultishIt was a poor marketing decision to drop it in the first place.
Maybe this version will project the Apple logo on walls and people. Or, create a AR portal in front of the user. Even better would be a photon gun!
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It doesn't use any extra energy because it uses the backlight of the LCD and makes the lighting very even. It lights up or dims depending on how bright your display was, so in a dark room where the display auto-dims the logo light would be very faint as well. That was the genius of the old design.
But what about mini-LED with controlled backlighting zones/OLED with per-pixel lighting? I guess the logo would just often look spotty then (inb4 “Dynamic Apple”)? Or maybe they could use the same (or similar) low-energy backlighting from their keyboards to ensure it’s evenly lit…
This would Bea really cool feature to have on the next iPhone pro max I remember doing this to my old I phone 4 back in the day the kit was a pretty easy install
YES!!!!!
Apple could be considering a return of the iconic backlit Apple logo on future MacBook models, if a newly published patent is anything to go by.
Once a common sight in coffee shops everywhere, the glowing emblem of an Apple logo featured on the lids of many Mac laptops launched in the early 2000s, but its demise in 2015 could turn out to be relatively short-lived.
Filed by Apple in May 2022 and published last week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a new patent summarizes various implementations of "Electronic Devices With Backlit Partial Mirror Structures," but the illustrated example leaves readers in little doubt about the specific use case Apple has in mind.
Patently Apple, which first highlighted the document, notes that three of the engineers listed on the patent only joined Apple in 2018, long after the backlit logo was dropped from Mac laptops, indicating that a different methodology is being described.
The first Mac laptop with a lit-up Apple logo was the third-generation PowerBook G3 launched in 1999, and the glowing symbol proved a mainstay through consecutive Apple notebooks for the next 16 years. The only change in that period was that the logo got flipped upright, so that it no longer appeared upside down to onlookers when someone was sat in public with the lid open.
In 2015, Apple began nixing the illuminated insignia from its laptops, starting with the ultra-thin 12-inch MacBook, which had a polished metal logo instead, like those seen on iPads. In 2016, a new generation of MacBook Pro models continued the unlit trend, and Apple hasn't launched a Mac laptop with a glowing logo since.
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Personally I would like it to come back in a more subtle version where only the outline of the logo glows - enough to be recognised as the iconic apple but not as distracting to others as the old version.
Or they could just slap in a OLED screen for the apple, and have many colors and do some cool animations, and display the old "rainbow" Apple Logo($5 a month service).
I love watching in a dark room, it’s like a theater. Never had an issue with being able to see
I'd like one on the top of my M1 Mini. It would add a nice bit of ambient lighting when I'm sitting in my dark office at 4:30am reading MR and drinking coffee.
I own 1 Apple laptop but it predates this feature. I still own it but I haven’t turned it on since 2021. By memory it was a 2011 model MacBook Pro.
I don’t use my own laptop because I mostly travel for work and that requires a work laptop and a lot of diagnostic equipment. I usually just use an iPad as a movie/series source for these trips.
For home use I have a 27 inch iMac that I am trying to decide what to replace it with. It is too old to accept the upcoming Ventura OS.
I'm guessing they dropped it due to the effect on the integrity/protection of the display. The patent could contain tech that provides the emblazoned logo while still protecting the display.
My son and I have a repeating conversation. He'll be sitting there using his old MacBook Pro and I'll be using my M1 MBA.
His fans start running...
Me: "What's that horrible noise?"
Him: "It's the sound a proper computer makes, not some rubbish which doesn't even have a glowing Apple"
Me: "SORRY, I CAN'T HEAR YOU ABOVE THE FAN NOISE"
I also hate that I'd actually upgrade for this but I'd never tell him