Why not just “Disk”? Or, better yet “Internal Storage”.Is there any reason they would still call it Macintosh HD? That seems as archaic as the actual disk icon. Macintosh SSD?
Why not just “Disk”? Or, better yet “Internal Storage”.Is there any reason they would still call it Macintosh HD? That seems as archaic as the actual disk icon. Macintosh SSD?
Well, I believe the key thing is that this is for the operating system's root drive as opposed to any other drives you may have connected.Why not just “Disk”? Or, better yet “Internal Storage”.Is there any reason they would still call it Macintosh HD? That seems as archaic as the actual disk icon. Macintosh SSD?
Aka internal storage…Well, I believe the key thing is that this is for the operating system's root drive as opposed to any other drives you may have connected.
The existing icon still resembled a hard disk drive, but the new icon looks like a modern solid state drive.
but no sillier than mislabelling all ssd as hard drivesDoes the new icon just appear on SSDs, or will my 20TB external NAS backup drive, a HDD, now incorrectly show up as if it were an SSD? If they're now accurately distinguishing between SSDs and HDDs, that's great, but if they've just decided to mislabel HDDs instead of SSDs, that's just silly.
It doesn't really matter as long as it is distinctive. Phones icons don't look like modern phones, Gen-Z-ers might not recognise a floppy disc icon - and the winner mght be the UK |speed camera" sign that looks like an early 20th century bellows camera. However, they're still recognised as abstract symbols for what they represent.I’d be 99% of users had no idea what the old icon was.
Yes, the perspective doesn’t make sense.
For comparison, why are we now looking at the Trash icon from a more side-on perspective (as you would, with it on the ground), yet the Drive icon is ‘stood up’ vertically rather than being a ‘sat down’ perspective, as per OS 9?
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Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians at the Loop
What are the 3 holes? Triple headphone jack?
LOL - Third graders master perspective better than this icon. Is this really Apple?
It actually matters that much to you? Hmmmm.Eww this’ll be the first thing I change back 🤣
This is cheff kiss Ignatius. I’m keeping it!FWIW this is the icon I've been pasting in for quite a few years now. I no longer remember where I got it or who designed it but I like it a lot:
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shape-wise it's like the Samsung T9 drive which has two rounded sidesDoesn’t look like solid state drive I’ve ever seen.
Why, exactly, did they have to do something other than "because old hard drive is old"?I agree, but they had to do something.
No, a PCB would definitely be worse from a user-friendliness perspective, but I do agree it would look pretty cool.Would you have preferred a PCB with a chip on it? (I think that'd be cool)