I miss it.
Would love to see it come back at some point.
Would love to see it come back at some point.
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Do you miss the glowing Apple logo?
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The metal logo now is more modern and elegant. The glowing logo looks so old.
Yes I do miss it. I always loved it and wish they would bring it back.
I'd rather see them make the bold choice of bringing back the rainbow logo, glowing or not
That would also be cool, although you can just get a sticker now to put over the current logo that would do the same thing.
I don't really have a strong feeling about it. It caught OTHER peoples eyes but it was something I never noticed or looked at. Now...
I would gleefully purchase a retro throwback Mac. Especially if the command key had the apple logo on it.
I would gleefully purchase a retro throwback Mac. Especially if the command key had the apple logo on it.
I agree the newer satin/gloss looks elegant, but I definitely miss the old glow
The glowing logo serves no other purpose than to tell the world that you have an Apple product, and I've got better things to do with my life than waste my time boasting that I can afford an Apple laptop.
One nice thing about it, is that when you're sitting in a dark room it would provide some ambient illumination.
It has nothing to do with you, sorry.
Apple don’t need so much free advertising anymore, so they lowered the effects 😉
Btw, it should be. 3rd option to put my vote on.
3/ It doesn’t matter, I bought the Apple Device out of other reasons.
Option 3: doesn’t matter is actually same with option 2: No, I don’t miss it.
You can easily ID which decade a TV/movie was made or how low budget it is by the glowing Mac laptop logo.
The last Mac laptop to have it was the 2015 laptop.
The last Mac laptop to have it was the 2015 laptop.
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I miss the small rainbow logo. Also miss beige cases. The Mac Pro would look much better in a Quadra 900 or Macintosh II case.
Not missing something includes, but is not limited to, being glad the glowing logo was "removed" or actively wishing for things to stay as they are. It also includes indifference.
I miss the old PowerBook G3 way where the logo is for YOU, not everyone else. For those that don't know the logo used to be flipped so it was right side up when you were about to open it from closed and upside down when open. With the PowerBook G4 they decided the logo was to advertise to everyone else in the room and flipped it.
The glow was awesome, definitely miss it.
I miss it, but that might be more a nostalgia thing than any real desire to see it come back.
On a really sunny day you can see the glow through your display! How fun 
couldnt care less
it's nothing but a tool, and if anything i'd rather the interior to be beautiful (the OS and apps), which it is . I never use my laptop with the back, I use it with the front, looking at the screen and keyboard
besides as others pointed out, it was flawed since light could pass through
it's nothing but a tool, and if anything i'd rather the interior to be beautiful (the OS and apps), which it is . I never use my laptop with the back, I use it with the front, looking at the screen and keyboard
besides as others pointed out, it was flawed since light could pass through
There are lots of things I might miss about "the old days" of assorted Macs, but the logo style on the laptops is not one of them. As others have noted, I don't run my machine from a vantage point where it matters.
[ Can't resist adding a curmudgeonly note in the era of being asked if one wants to roll with 8GB memory or on up to stratospheric offerings at stratospheric prices: once in a great while I allow myself to miss the days of the old McSink shareware, a made-for-Mac text processor written in assembler that ran in 20k and had features that should make TextEdit devs hang their heads and blush in shame. "Those were the days" -- and they were also days when a 40 megabyte hard drive was a prize possession. Now Apple wants to know if I might need a drive with 2TB. I realize this is progress, especially since the Powerbook 170 I bought that did have a 40MB drive in it cost me way more in today's dollars than the 15" MBA I now drool over.]
So all in all I'll take today's Macs over all the ones I used to own and love in their time. Apple still has what it takes to keep me in their ecosystem. Yeah I liked the old glowing logo. But I like what's under the hood of the new laptops, so I'll go with the flow on the style of the logo on the case.
[ Can't resist adding a curmudgeonly note in the era of being asked if one wants to roll with 8GB memory or on up to stratospheric offerings at stratospheric prices: once in a great while I allow myself to miss the days of the old McSink shareware, a made-for-Mac text processor written in assembler that ran in 20k and had features that should make TextEdit devs hang their heads and blush in shame. "Those were the days" -- and they were also days when a 40 megabyte hard drive was a prize possession. Now Apple wants to know if I might need a drive with 2TB. I realize this is progress, especially since the Powerbook 170 I bought that did have a 40MB drive in it cost me way more in today's dollars than the 15" MBA I now drool over.]
So all in all I'll take today's Macs over all the ones I used to own and love in their time. Apple still has what it takes to keep me in their ecosystem. Yeah I liked the old glowing logo. But I like what's under the hood of the new laptops, so I'll go with the flow on the style of the logo on the case.
I'd love to see a retro keyboard that has the old Apple II keyboard layout, complete with both the closed and open apple keys...
No. I think they got rid of it because for very thin screens (like the old 2010 era MacBook airs) bright light/sunlight shining on the logo could damage the screen. This happened to me twice with a 2013 MBA. A very clear halo of different colored screen that matched the apple logo on the back. I got it repaired the first time it happens and then when it happened again I just decided to live with it.
So I do not miss the glowing apple at all.
So I do not miss the glowing apple at all.
Well, yeah, it looks modern because that's the way it is now, and the glowing logo looks old because that's the way it was then. If they would have ad the metal logo back then and the glowing logo now, then it would be reversed.
But hey, if you want to go really retro, turn that apple upside down!!!
OMG that just brought back a memory from elementary school when the computer teacher would say "now everyone press open-apple, control, reset"