This has been the case with every Apple notebook at least since the G3 iBooks. If this unacceptable Apple doesn't make an acceptable notebook...
when you turn down the brightness all the way in a room with the light on is the apple logo suppose to be visible through the screen?
who the hell cares?
if the screen isn't backlit, you shouldn't be trying to read anything on the screen anyways.
This is not necessarily true. Both the Apple logo and the screen get their light from the same backlight, so obviously if the backlight is off it is possible for a small amount of light to bleed through the logo onto the screen. I can see a very faint and fuzzy Apple logo if I turn off the backlight on my 11" and hold the back up to a bright light.
Wow, you guys are a riot. You can only see the logo when the backlight is off entirely and a light source is behind the laptop.
Light can travel both ways you know.
How some of you consider this some type of flaw is beyond me....
That's such a small group of people though. I'd think you'd put the company logo over the Apple logo or something similar to eradicate the issue.For instance, post-processing or viewing images or video of extremely dark scenes. I work in a company that routinely has clients with MacBook Pros come in to darkened theaters where the only source of light is what's reflecting off the screen. Since that light is hitting the back of the MBPs, lo and behold, if they're working on or viewing images or videos that happen to be dark, voila, occasionally a faint glow of an Apple logo can reveal itself. "What's that? Is it an artifact in the image?" "No, it's just the logo from my MacBook."
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I could see the logo through my screen when no light was on in my room and it was ambient off-axis light source from a window 10+ feet away.
That's such a small group of people though. I'd think you'd put the company logo over the Apple logo or something similar to eradicate the issue.
Exactly. To Apple, it doesn't affect enough people and is excellent advertising for them.Yep, you're absolutely right. Which I imagine is why Apple hasn't spent the R&D on designing it out. I *wish* they would, but that doesn't mean they *should*, and I can understand why they haven't.
And the meantime I've done exactly as you've suggested. An applique right over the logo has diminished it to such an extent that it's immeasurable to my colorimeter or spectrophotmeter (the latter of which admittedly has its own low-light issues).
England's not sunny enough for this to be an issue.
You shouldn't be able to see it through the screen under any circumstances.