hooray the chime is back, and PC guy too! loved it. I'm really excited for the future of the Mac, and computing in general.
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The Chime is back!
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AustinIllini
macrumors G5
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I guess me still rocking a 2010, it’s been aways been there. Lol
ha ha yes, poor me I'm still working on a 2008 Mac Pro (2x Quadcore 2.8Ghz Xeon CPU's) , and a 2008 Macbook (unibody)... So the Chime is still with me 🙂 yes, my iPad and iPhone(11) are better at some tasks, but I still like the larger screen, and all the storage my old Pro has. I could not afford currently to move up to a new Mac Mini and get an external drive bay that would fit 4 3.5" HDD's on a thunderbolt link (and having to invest in a new display too, using a 23" Apple Cinema display which also still works brilliantly), or transfer all data onto a single external thunderbolt SSD... options options...
aednichols
macrumors 6502
You can silence the chime by holding the mute key during boot.
Didn't matter what the system volume was set to when you turned it off.
Very handy in college libraries.
Actually, it has been possible to re-instate the chime since at least Mojave. Not sure the boing ever went away, it just got turned off...
aednichols
macrumors 6502
No OS version has ever lacked the ability to chime.
Whether it plays is determined by the hardware model; if the Mac chimed when you first took it out of the box, it kept doing so through every OS upgrade. And the reverse.
Chime can be disable/enabled in System Preferences -> Sound.
No need for arcade commands or mute buttons.
No need for arcade commands or mute buttons.