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Backlit Apple Logo Could Make a Comeback on Future MacBooks
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Looks like the classes I teach (only mine have fewer light-up logos these days, obviously).
Two of Apple’s stupidest moves ever were removing the illuminated Apple logo and the MagSafe connector from the MacBook line.
With connector change it seems we are about halfway back to fixing this.
With connector change it seems we are about halfway back to fixing this.
I’m cool with this move. But first I’m gonna enjoy the 14 Pro for at least a solid 3 years. Not a fan of trying out first gen. tech features. Also this, add illuminated Apple logo to the iPhone please!
Told ya so!
It should come back with an on off switch, dimmer, and color choice.
I do not miss the glowing logo in the slightest. I even got a vinyl wrap to cover up the back of my MBP partly to hide the big logo, and I only choose iPhone cases without a logo cut-out. I appreciate Apple products, but I don't want to be a corporate ad mule.
I’ll look, but if it’s there I never noticed it. It was basically used as a desktop because most of my travels are for work. I got it out briefly in 2021 because of Covid so that both me and my wife could access our different work locations remotely. But I didn’t use it long, I ended up getting my work laptop because I needed a Windows machine for my work software, and I had to remote in to customers machines to monitor their problems.
Really? It was there til 2015?
*turns on my used 2015 MacBook Air 13" 8gb 128gb I bought from Amazon several months ago*
Ah there it is - glowing white! Why I never noticed it until NOW?
*turns it off with a smile*
*turns on my used 2015 MacBook Air 13" 8gb 128gb I bought from Amazon several months ago*
Ah there it is - glowing white! Why I never noticed it until NOW?
*turns it off with a smile*
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I came her to make almost that EXACT same statement! xD
For sure would I upgrade for this and hate myself for doing it. But....nostalgia....and it just looks so damn cool, even though 90% of the time I don't get to see it, I get the benefit of seeing it on other people's laptops
Hot take: I don't want the glowing logo back. Aside from how bright it was in the dark, the logo overtime caused screen burn-in.
The logo would need its own light source. Any uneven bleed over from the screen would make the apple look like it is decaying and rotten, not a good look for a corporate overlord.
Ooooohhhhh. Watch it be the outline. A new look that’d be pretty awesome. 🙌🏼
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.
Article Link: Backlit Apple Logo Could Make a Comeback on Future MacBooks
Whilst they're at it, can we have the sleeping/breathing white battery indicator light back also?
No - ah, I must have misspelled it. It's a MacBook Air. I'm a Windows user since 1990 and built PCs as hobby several years later, I decided to buy used Mac things during 2000's just to learn what it works.
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