Turning off the Apple logo on MacBook Pro

[Shaman Beloved]

So you only generic things without brands on them? Because almost anything with a good brand will have their logo or choice-words plastered on them.

It's more a question of style of branding, than no branding at all. Here's an example:

Comparing just the branding (forget for a minute it's a Thinkpad vs. a Toshiba 😛), for me the Thinkpad branding is more classy. Same kind of difference, say, between BMW's small logo on the hood vs. new Mercedes with the huge in-your-face star in the front. One has class, the other doesn't...

Great design like the aluminium PB/MBP doesn't need big glowing apples shouting like that to be recognized. They could have a smaller, etched dark apple on the aluminium, for example. I'll still say it: cult marketing system. Stores with wall-sized white Apple icons to worship...

 

[wschutz]

If it helps.. I used to have the problem of seeing the logo on the screen as I am in front of a window and live on a 7th floor... so the sunlight came through the logo and I could see the shape on the screen...
The solution is very easy... just a post-it 😛 Cheap... clean... and I promise it works for both problems... incoming light and outgoing light as well (because during night I also had the reflection on the window... but the post-it blocked it partially 🙂

 

[IndianSteveJobs]

It could be that he's using a work desk that is against the wall, which the light is reflecting on. I can see then how it's bothering him as a distraction.

Thanks Opstech. What you wrote is correct. You understood the situation exactly. My desk is against the wall. Noone posted how to make it off. Everyone is telling paste something, "Why do you want it to be off?" like that.

Could not Apple give a provision to be it off? I wonder. There should be some turn around.

Dont tell me - break the logo. 😉

 

[IndianSteveJobs]

Thanks Opstech. What you wrote is correct. You understood the situation exactly. My desk is against the wall. Noone posted how to make it off. Everyone is telling paste something, "Why do you want it to be off?" like that.

Could not Apple give a provision to be it off? I wonder. There should be some turn around.

Dont tell me - break the logo. 😉

I want to turn it off by tweaking little bit from Mac OS X. Not with any duct tapes.

But the cheapest solution is to paste stickies. 😉 Nice one dude!

 

[iBookG4user]

I want to turn it off by tweaking little bit from Mac OS X.

We've been trying to tell you that it's not possible. Just to prove it, darken your room so you see the Apple logo glow, now dim the backlight until the backlight for the screen is not lit anymore. Notice how the Apple logo is also not lit anymore? That's because the Apple logo is lit by the backlight, without dimming the backlight, you cannot dim the Apple logo without covering it up.

 

[scaredpoet]

Could not Apple give a provision to be it off?

Again, no. Not without turning off the screen. They are lit by the same source. All Apple did was cut out a logo-shaped piece from the aluminum backing of the screen so that the material that backlights the screen also shines through the back. Turn one off and you have to turn off the other, too.

And Apple isn't the only one doing it either:

Since you're keeping your MBP against a wall anyway, just duct-tape or electrical-tape the logo. Against the wall, no one will see the lid or the logo.

 

[phoobo]

Ductape is God

I ductape all my Mac notebooks' apples: just put a piece of thick cardboard over the logo first. It blocks more of the light, and it keeps the goo out of the seam.

Silver, of course. A classic.

 

[phoobo]

Tend to agree

Great design like the aluminium PB/MBP doesn't need big glowing apples shouting like that to be recognized. They could have a smaller, etched dark apple on the aluminium, for example. I'll still say it: cult marketing system. Stores with wall-sized white Apple icons to worship...

Yes, I resent being compelled to advertise for a company, and at no charge to them (!). It's all wrong: I've already given them money for the product itself. Now I work for them, for free? Surely they jest.

 

[IndianSteveJobs]

We've been trying to tell you that it's not possible. Just to prove it, darken your room so you see the Apple logo glow, now dim the backlight until the backlight for the screen is not lit anymore. Notice how the Apple logo is also not lit anymore? That's because the Apple logo is lit by the backlight, without dimming the backlight, you cannot dim the Apple logo without covering it up.

I clearly understood how the Apple logo glows and its light source. My brother works for a famous fashion designing company, their office is full of glasses and even cubicles are neatly designed. he works on Mac, obviously the Apple logo gets reflected to him from the glasses behind the macBook or cubicle walls.

Isn't it really 'insane' to have it like that? We all feel proud to sport it on our MacBooks to glow. But having the screen light souce, you cannot keep it glowing. The way to make it off is to dull my screen. Isn't it stupid?

The designers should have designed it to glow from any other light source so that you can program it to be off, to be bright, or to be blinking gracefully.

But, thank you very much to you all. Your intention to help me is good!
I am going to paste a sticky - cheap and reasonable. Duct tape or electrical tape may leave its sticky-gum on my Al-Foil.

Thanks.

 

[Opstech]

One thing you could do is glue a new logo on it. I’ve seen a guy at Star Bucks with a dark grey modded screen-like logo on his MBP. I guess he got a dark grey, still transparent, plastic sheet, cut out the apple logo, and then glued it on. It could be a fun project to try. It will darken the light drastically.
What do you think?

 

[IndianSteveJobs]

One thing you could do is glue a new logo on it. I’ve seen a guy at Star Bucks with a dark grey modded screen-like logo on his MBP. I guess he got a dark grey, still transparent, plastic sheet, cut out the apple logo, and then glued it on. It could be a fun project to try. It will darken the light drastically.
What do you think?

I cut my grandpa's Old X-Ray films in the shape of Apple logo (exact size of the Apple logo on my MacBook Pro). I made 2 such of them. I pasted them together on the logo. Now, it is good. It is not much transparent. It is allowing some light so that the logo visible. 😱

Its looking good.

 

[Drezin]

I cut my grandpa's Old X-Ray films in the shape of Apple logo (exact size of the Apple logo on my MacBook Pro). I made 2 such of them. I pasted them together on the logo. Now, it is good. It is not much transparent. It is allowing some light so that the logo visible. 😱

Its looking good.

show us some pics =D

 

[Jakedono]

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I cut my grandpa's Old X-Ray films in the shape of Apple logo (exact size of the Apple logo on my MacBook Pro). I made 2 such of them. I pasted them together on the logo. Now, it is good. It is not much transparent. It is allowing some light so that the logo visible. 😱

Its looking good.

show us some pics =D

That sounds like the best thing to do. Post some pics! Did u put it on the the inside or outside?

 

[Apple OC]

Guys ... this thread is 8 months old 😎

 

[macgeek18]

I always liked the glowing Apple's. You can count how many MacBook's are in the library from across the room! 😉

 

[GSPice]

RIP eyes

 

[Idefix]

What I did was put on a Gelaskin: here's for the 13" MBP

http://www.gelaskins.com/store/lapt...cBook_Pro_MacBook_Air/collection/Most_Popular

This is the one I got, but obviously you could get darker:

http://www.gelaskins.com/store/lapt...Book_Pro_MacBook_Air/Almond_Branches_in_Bloom

It protects the laptop lid from scratches, plus it makes your laptop easily identifiable, say at the airport.

 

[fskywalker]

Don't be sorry for owning an Apple and letting other people to know it !😀

 

[ElectronGuru]

This thread reminds me of the origin of the glowing logo. The G3 Wall Street debuted with a white logo on a black plastic lid, but it didn't glow. Then one day, someone thought to take apart the lid, and cut a hole in the foil that lined the back of the screen. Suddenly this light that already existed could do more than just light the pixels.

The idea spread and got published and spread some more. It wasn't for several more generations that the feature appeared from the factory, Lombard I think. Apple certainly chose to implement the idea but I don't consider it a company idea. This also influenced the change from closed-right to open-right logo orientation.

 

[Aldaris]

Colorware does a laser fill. If it bothers you that much and you have the funds, they can fill your logo with aluminum fill and then you could have a blank clamshell top. Or you could go the duct tape route.

( I'd recommend just dealing with it-or using an external set up: monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, etc.)

 

[snaky69]

Colorware does a laser fill. If it bothers you that much and you have the funds, they can fill your logo with aluminum fill and then you could have a blank clamshell top. Or you could go the duct tape route.

( I'd recommend just dealing with it-or using an external set up: monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, etc.)

This thread is over 3 years old. Let it die.