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R.I.P. Backlit Apple Logo?
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Right, it's traditionally been inside the black plastic piece. But during the keynote they mentioned they were able to do away with that via an integrated antenna.
I'll be curious to see where it is when iFixit does their tear down.
I just assumed that was the direction Apple was heading in, so I embraced it. Not a big deal for me, just if I had to criticize any part of the design then that would be it. Where as the lack of a glowing Apple logo doesn't bother me.
Right, it's traditionally been inside the black plastic piece. But during the keynote they mentioned they were able to do away with that via an integrated antenna.
I'll be curious to see where it is when iFixit does their tear down.
Judging from the photos, it looks like the strip below the display glass (on which 'MacBook' is written) is made of plastic. It appears they've integrated the antenna window into the black frame of the display, rather than in the hinge barrel.
ah, the pismo. good-looking mac. underpowered, dim screen. too much heat. and easily dented or broken. but looked good...
agreed. how does it matter anymore? when i got my first mac, it was like a badge of honor (outshining the PC's at starbucks)
and it's true...we never see it when we're at our macs.
all this whining about what we're losing (backlit apples, the magsafe adapter, ports) is wearing thin
lots of people will buy the new macbook, and be happy. and some won't buy it. and life will go on...
When the sun is directly behind it, you see it through the screen.
When you're trying to be discreet at night, trying to not wake people up or just trying to be private, you can't disable the light without physically covering it up.
It was nice advertising, but I welcome this. I don't want to announce to everyone what I'm doing and what I have.
And sometimes I don't like rubbing it in people's faces.
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Yes! I thought it was classy how the MacBook Pro is blank on the screen. Not a distraction.
When you're trying to be discreet at night, trying to not wake people up or just trying to be private, you can't disable the light without physically covering it up.
It was nice advertising, but I welcome this. I don't want to announce to everyone what I'm doing and what I have.
And sometimes I don't like rubbing it in people's faces.
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Yes! I thought it was classy how the MacBook Pro is blank on the screen. Not a distraction.
Eh, I'm ok with it either way. If it means more battery life and/or slimmer display I'm ok with it.
The Pismo has a backlit Apple logo. Even the one on my Wallstreet glows, ever so faintly.
I've never seen mine glowing...perhaps I've just never had it in a dark enough room!
I guess we'd have to go all the way to the previous generations that still had the rainbow logo on the lid.
Underpowered maybe by todays standards, but with a 500mhz processor and 1gb of RAM it was no slouch in 1999...heck you couldn't get a desktop G3 with a 500mhz processor. Cooling is also pretty good-it has a pretty sizeable heatsink and a decent amount of air moving. G3s don't run that hot as a general rule-the clamshell iBooks just use a relatively thin heatsink with no fan.
As for denting...I'm not sure how that would be possible given that the whole thing is plastic.
By 1999 laptop standards the screen is not that dim...in fact it's brighter than the screen on my 2005 Powerbook.
The computer is now 16 years in the past, so I'm not making a case for it, but it is impressive to me that I can still fire it up and get work done on it even with it being that old.
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Apple logos were always upside on laptops...the idea being that when you are looking at the laptop with the lid closed, the Apple is pointed toward you.
Johnny Ive made the decision on the first Titanium Powerbooks to flip the logo, and the rest, as they say, is history.
This times a million. I'm so relieved that the new Macbook won't have this flaw. For the longest time I thought that I had damaged my macbook because I dropped something on it and that the light shinning through was my fault. I was relieved to know I didn't caused it, but that shortly turned to irritation.
Good riddance.
Right, it's traditionally been inside the black plastic piece. But during the keynote they mentioned they were able to do away with that via an integrated antenna.
I'll be curious to see where it is when iFixit does their tear down.
In the below picture you can see the long speaker grill. Behind that is the speaker/antenna assembly. It's not in the display.
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It is sad to lose such an iconic symbol but in the name of thinness.......
What will we loose next?
What will we loose next?
i so disagree. i found it heavy, dim-screened, clunky. a much better mac was the 12" powerbook (especially the last gen 1.5 model). just a humble opinion...