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Classic Mac Startup Chime Not Present in New MacBook Pros
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A tutorial post here -- https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/tutorial-disable-auto-boot-on-new-macbook-pros.2011044/ -- claims to disable auto-boot and to restore the chord, using terminal.
It's mainly because of the extra-loud chime after a PRAM reset that I'm glad the chime is gone. It always wakes up my girlfriend when I do it late at night. Though I do hope they added some sort of visual cue for the timing on a PRAM reset.
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I think the extension cord is BS. The regular cord is so short it's useless and we pay how much for these machines? We can have the cord included.
No, it's not the end of the world. But it's the end of whimsy. That was one thing Apple used to do well -- make technology accessible and delightful. I've heard that the startup sound was Jobs' homage to The Beatles; it's supposed to imitate the opening chord of Hard Day's Night. Little touches like that didn't make your computer function any better, but they made it friendlier. That's what I'm starting to miss from Apple.
That's quite a bizarre post to make - strange that you'd simplify without asking more about the situation. Let me explain; I run a little game studio and my tools are Windows-only but I spend my down time on Mac because I like Photos, email, Garageband, Pages, organising music in iTunes is much nicer on OSX too, plus Time Machine is an incredible tool! But I can migrate as all my Apple computers dual boot into Windows (one 7, and three 10 machines), all my drives are partitioned 50-50 between the two OS'.
But it's numbers too. I spend around £4,000 in the Apple Store each year for either myself, my partner, or our studio. After 3 years they might as well sack someone because that's their wages.
Buuuut who knows! Maybe they'll see the 'pro' backlash and do right by the iMac line. I'd really rather not lose OSX but the MBP is no longer a system I want - especially with Microsoft really stepping up. My next big purchase will either be an iMac or a MS Surface Studio.
Apple is a new machine now, my kids use iPads all the time, my wife uses her iPhone all the time, I am a software engineer and use macs and pc's for work, but the truth is the only reason the pc was ever a consumer product was because Apple hadn't invented the iPhone or iPad, and thank god they did, cos I love how my kids interact with them.
As successful as Apple have been with its iPhone it's great to see them still innovating with the mac and Tim say this week how much the Mac means to Apple.
As successful as Apple have been with its iPhone it's great to see them still innovating with the mac and Tim say this week how much the Mac means to Apple.
Apple have become the PC in the old Mac vs PC ads.
No fun, no personality, awkward dongles, different standards across the product range etc etc.
No fun, no personality, awkward dongles, different standards across the product range etc etc.
The sleeping light has been gone since the Retina MacBook Pros have been released back in 2012.
I'm not really bothered because I've got about 20 of those extension cables laying around, but more importantly it comes with a 2 meter USB-C which is longer than the magsafe cable was.
A little sad that this is gone, but who actually shuts down their Macs these days anyway?
Aside from (very rare) system crashes, I'll only ever reboot to apply system updates. Other than that, it's just sleep mode or log out.
The introduction of auto boot just suggests to me that there were too many dummies out there not using sleep properly.
Aside from (very rare) system crashes, I'll only ever reboot to apply system updates. Other than that, it's just sleep mode or log out.
The introduction of auto boot just suggests to me that there were too many dummies out there not using sleep properly.
Then lower the price. Forcing a customer to swallow $3600 in base model is plainly insane. Young and college students can hardly buy MacBook in this price, with or without education discount.
I am glad couple of people here realized the real story is the auto power up hidden under the sound story. Waiting for trolls(apple apologists).
I do. If my laptop sleeps for awhile and then I open it and want to watch a video with headphones, it only plays through the speakers. I've filed several big reports on this and Apple doesn't seem to care. It started with later versions of El Capitan through sierra 10.12.1.
Funny thing is I actually know a few people in college who only bought a Mac for the status and having that glowing logo. It's gone now along with the chime now but I'll not move back to windows because of a glowing logo being surplus to requirements
So we resisters now need to start digging into Mac OS X in real.
Yes, I still use Mac OS X , not macOS.
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There are just so many examples changes are not leading to a good result. Learning how to preserve is equally important as embracing innovation.
This is young should also learn.