Yosemite Boot Screen Color

[Altemose]

Which computers will receive the black boot screen with the white Apple when upgrading to Yosemite versus the white screen with the dark Apple?

 

[got556]

I think all retina screens receive black screens white logo and all non retina's are the opposite. At least my retina's are black and my non are gray, so far.

 

[Altemose]

I think all retina screens receive black screens white logo and all non retina's are the opposite. At least my retina's are black and my non are gray, so far.

Well I have seen some MacBook Airs have it so I wonder if it has to do with EFI.

 

[got556]

Well I have seen some MacBook Airs have it so I wonder if it has to do with EFI.

Possibly. I know in the PB's of Yosemite my boot screen was black, but shortly after Yosemite was pushed to the masses and I updated to 10.10.1 it was back to gray. (On my '09 MBP, that is...it's sorta my test laptop)

 

[Altemose]

Possibly. I know in the PB's of Yosemite my boot screen was black, but shortly after Yosemite was pushed to the masses and I updated to 10.10.1 it was back to gray. (On my '09 MBP, that is...it's sorta my test laptop)

I am still running Mavericks due to the networking bugs in Yosemite. I am the only network tech for my school so it is a bit hard to have a buggy network configuration.

 

[Fangio]

Running Yosemite since DP1. Never seen a black bootscreen on the cMP.

 

[redheeler]

It changed over to black on my rMBP sometime during the early public betas. At first I thought it was something to do with retina or non-retina (because the boot screen was light on the 2010 iMac), but later I clearly spotted a black boot screen in one of the 2014 Mac mini reviews and the display was definitely not retina.

It might simply have to do with the age/type of the hardware. A mid 2012 rMBP is probably the oldest hardware to get the black screen without some sort of firmware hack.

 

[Altemose]

It changed over to black on my rMBP sometime during the early public betas. At first I thought it was something to do with retina or non-retina (because the boot screen was light on the 2010 iMac), but later I clearly spotted a black boot screen in one of the 2014 Mac mini reviews and the display was definitely not retina.

It might simply have to do with the age/type of the hardware. A mid 2012 rMBP is probably the oldest hardware to get the black screen without some sort of firmware hack.

That's what I think too.

 

[got556]

Agreed that it's a hardware thing, but I do know that I had a black start up screen around PB 3, 4, or 5. Sometime after then it went back to gray. Then again, I also still have Safari 8.0.1 on this MBP also.

 

[newellj]

Late 2012 Mini: white
Late 2013 rMBP: black

 

[MRU]

I wonder if there is a way of editing yosemite so we can choose black or grey ?

 

[Altemose]

I wonder if there is a way of editing yosemite so we can choose black or grey ?

I sure hope so!