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Classic Mac Startup Chime Not Present in New MacBook Pros
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Yes, thank you. I must have been subconsciously thinking of "Dragula" with Halloween approaching.
So you along with other bored keyboard warriors get upset over other people getting upset over this topic ?
Hmm, maybe you just like complaining about complainers
The melodrama is the one playing out within Apple over the past 5 years. Loosing the chime on its own is not a big deal, but loosing it along with many other things that made Apple what it is today, is what's upsetting a number of people to different degrees.
What made the Macintosh unique was many idiosyncrasies, like the chime, that back in the 80s & 90s differentiated it from the grey boring PC masses. You were there, right ?
I certainly won't be loosing any sleep over the chime, but as Pink Floyd so aptly put it, it's just another brick in the wall.
This is the one I just don't get. MagSafe was an amazing charging connector, so I'm sad to see it depart. I'm guessing if you want to be able to charge from any port, the magnetic feature would be horrible at connecting any other device.
One of the benefits of devices sharing common interfaces is that you only need to travel with one charger. Since carry-on weight is at a premium, carrying seperate chargers for phones, iPads, secondary ext. batteries and other USB peripherals. Now, those extra chargers weigh about as much as the many dongles you'll be carrying, so who cares, right ?
Devastating change. That sound is so old it is so iconic.
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As I like to say. "No chime. No charm."
So even if you restart one of these new machines their is no chime? I presume you can still use boot camp on the new computers?
Apple goes the way Microsoft went years ago when it lost market share. Microsoft is struggling back slowly, while Apple disregards it's diehard core customers. Phil Schiller said it was "sad" that some of us used 5-year-old MacBooks, missing the point entirely. Having a 5-year-old MacBook that is still going strong is precisely WHY some of us use Macs. It is also why many Windows users moved to Apple. Seems like they think they know better than Steve Jobs. Onwards and downwards to the disposable computer. More profits? I doubt it. Slowly, surely and relentlessly Tim Cook and his cronies are amputating what sets the Macintosh apart from all other computers in pursuit of money.
I think i've spotted the pattern - Mac Rumors knows it's audience and now posts inflammatory posts to rile up the clicks and the forum posts for ad revenue.
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I agree...the next change from apple will be Black and White only....color monitors or screens will be declared OUT.
It doesn't matter. It doesn't make a difference. I never shut down my Mac so I never hear it anyway. But somehow this is still so, so, so sad.
I have to agree with you. I hope the Mac I have lasts for a while. The prices, for me any way are a little too expensive.
I don't get it... How is a small plastic piece that weighs less than 4oz so inconvenient to your life? And, as others have said:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_...=computers&field-keywords=usb-c+to+lightening
So... Yeah. I really don't understand your point.
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My God, get over yourselves. Its a 3 second chime upon boot-up. I'm not a Mac owner and never have been but I soon will be. I find the idea of a loud chime upon every boot slightly annoying. There's a few scenarios where this isn't ideal, like opening up your laptop while your partner is asleep next to you in bed or something. Its only there to confirm all diagnostics and pre-boot check stuff is fine. Now, that confirmation is seeing the Apple logo. More discreet and stealthy. I like it.
I also like the new polished steel insert over the glowing Apple logo. The cutout for the logo didn't give a feeling of solidness and integrity. I think its dumb that sunlight on the back of your display could totally ruin your viewing experience. On a mobile machine where you're outdoors, or possible near some bright light source with your display turned down low to save battery, what you see below happens. Unacceptable on a machine of this price for the silly novelty of showing a glowing logo around you. I don't get why people even liked that, I'd prefer the back of my display to be static and normal. Glowing Apple logos made MacBooks look like toys.
All you whiners and complainers need to grow up. Apple is maturing, its dropped skueomorphism, cartoonish interfaces and slightly unnecessary boot sounds. None of you are making Mac users look like competent adults when you think a $600 billion dollar company is over because a boot sound got taken away. Seriously, what?
I also like the new polished steel insert over the glowing Apple logo. The cutout for the logo didn't give a feeling of solidness and integrity. I think its dumb that sunlight on the back of your display could totally ruin your viewing experience. On a mobile machine where you're outdoors, or possible near some bright light source with your display turned down low to save battery, what you see below happens. Unacceptable on a machine of this price for the silly novelty of showing a glowing logo around you. I don't get why people even liked that, I'd prefer the back of my display to be static and normal. Glowing Apple logos made MacBooks look like toys.
All you whiners and complainers need to grow up. Apple is maturing, its dropped skueomorphism, cartoonish interfaces and slightly unnecessary boot sounds. None of you are making Mac users look like competent adults when you think a $600 billion dollar company is over because a boot sound got taken away. Seriously, what?
Alright. Perhaps this is a bit more common in United States. I rarely hear any domestic student in Australia doing so.
I can clearly see the line between the lovers of Tim's Apple vs Steve's Apple here in the MacRumors forums.
Defend vs Attack, respectively.
It's time to let go, fellas. Steve's Apple is DEAD as fried chicken. If you don't like Timmy's direction for Apple, it's time to face the truth and move on.
It's painful, to be sure, but necessary.
I can't take this anymore.
It's like the husband whose wife has found a new man, despite decades of love and loyalty. The husband desperately tries to cling to someone she's not. He bargains, puts up with things, just to keep hope alive and get a glimpse of the magic that brought them together.
But the truth is sad and cold: there is no alternative but to let her go and find someone new.
Goodbye Apple, you cruel, cruel b***h.
Defend vs Attack, respectively.
It's time to let go, fellas. Steve's Apple is DEAD as fried chicken. If you don't like Timmy's direction for Apple, it's time to face the truth and move on.
It's painful, to be sure, but necessary.
I can't take this anymore.
It's like the husband whose wife has found a new man, despite decades of love and loyalty. The husband desperately tries to cling to someone she's not. He bargains, puts up with things, just to keep hope alive and get a glimpse of the magic that brought them together.
But the truth is sad and cold: there is no alternative but to let her go and find someone new.
Goodbye Apple, you cruel, cruel b***h.
That's a really sad but fairly accurate way of describing how many people are feeling.
We can't blame Apple for going after a different market, but we can wish they could be bothered with us still.
Just imagine if such cars go normal, car theft would be, also a new norm.
Open the door, car engine starts, and yay! GO!
My PC is on for 37 days. Windows PC does not need to be restarted as often as you think.
What if it does not? Heat up the entire machine? I have such experience once and it almost ruined my Mac.
Cook didn't get it in 1997–8, either. Jobs had to come back from NeXT and reboot Apple through the iEverything era. We're just NOW seeing the first significant post-Jobs concepts…alas. I was recommending new equipment purchases for a tech writing division in Silicon Valley in 1997–9, and those machines designed under Cook's watch were embarrassing!
So you along with other bored keyboard warriors get upset over other people getting upset over this topic ?
Hmm, maybe you just like complaining about complainers
The melodrama is the one playing out within Apple over the past 5 years. Loosing the chime on its own is not a big deal, but loosing it along with many other things that made Apple what it is today, is what's upsetting a number of people to different degrees.
What made the Macintosh unique was many idiosyncrasies, like the chime, that back in the 80s & 90s differentiated it from the grey boring PC masses. You were there, right ?
I certainly won't be loosing any sleep over the chime, but as Pink Floyd so aptly put it, it's just another brick in the wall.
Let me just first explain that it's "lose", not "loose". Sorry to be a grammar nazi, but I see far too many people not understand the difference. You lose something, you don't loose it.
Also, I most certainly have problems with the new MacBook Pro and some of the things Apple has done, but they are real, legitimate things. And I'm not using the loss of a startup chime as an indication of anything except that they felt it unnecessary.
If you're going to complain about thing Apple is doing, talking about their "idiosyncrasies" is melodrama.