One thing that we noticed upon opening our MacBook Pro Intel Core Duo lids earlier this year: The little round black iSight indicator (which lights green when the camera is in operation) subtly threw off the visual balance of the top bezel:
The new MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo models have done away with that visual imbalance by placing the indicator light under the bezel finish: it only glows green when the iSight is active, otherwise, it’s not visible:
This is yet another example of Apple’s attention to detail that you’d never see from any other PC box assembler. As Apple states prominently on their MacBook Pro “design” page: No detail is too minor.
See more photos of Apple’s new MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo here.
MacDailyNews Reader “raddoc” tells us that an Engadget reader noticed the same thing here.
I’ll take two.
Sweet. I love good design.
One more reason to buy a new MacBook Pro 😀
Now if they would only change the IR remote to a Bluetooth one
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Yes, yes I know. Power consumption…
I wonder why my iMac has to have that little hole. The power light doesnt have one.
OK, so they lost the black dot on the screen bezel.
What’s the black dot on the case, to the left of the latch release? Now that’s visually unbalanced!
… and one more thing. A place to put the remote. Like the expresscard/34 slot.
Just my 2 cents
Actually it would be cool to have a bluetooth remote which gets charged when placed in the expresscard slot. Now would it?
How about Apple paying attention to the detail of sudden shutdown, freezes, crashes, exploding batteries and the need to constantly rebuild preferences?
They spend all their time on a tiny light while Rome is burning.
I have a better idea:
How about a green box surrounding the iSight (or a green line under the iSight)?
This way even when the light is on, it doesn’t disturb the symetry.
But why not center the light under the camera? Because when it’s turned on, it’s still out of balance as is!
Or as MacMan suggests, which is better still.
Peterson: What crashes and preferences rebuilds? Are you running M$ software? As for your other gripes, they have all been solved already.
MacMan “How about a green box surrounding the iSight (or a green line under the iSight)? “
Would be great, but wouldn’t the camera pick up a greenish hue?
“I wonder why my iMac has to have that little hole. The power light doesnt have one.”
for some reason, I thought that was the mic. Anyone?
Also, on the portables, why couldn’t the light just be directly under the lens? or has someone already asked that? Sorry…a little hung over…
My left testical hangs lower than the right one.
Peterson probably bought cheap third part RAM that’s causing his machine to act a bit flacky and then blames his cheap ass tendencies on Apple. Typical projection of his own inadequencies on to others.
MW = alone
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Ha! he’s all alone in his delusions.
“My left testical hangs lower than the right one.”
try tying a brick to your right one.
you will forget all about them being unbalanced, I promise
Why not make the light white, and have its intensity adjustable so that it helps illuminate the subject in lower light situations?
Peterson:
Dunno which machine you have, but it certainly doesn’t run OS X, as all modern Macs have no need to “constantly rebuild preferences”. We Mac users tend to call it ‘repairing disk permissions’, but I wouldn’t want to get too pedantic.
Oh, and those ‘exploding batteries you mentioned, affected virtually all PC makers as far as I remember and, hey, weren’t they actually made by a PC maker too? How cute.
One more thing, the freezes affected a small number of Core Duo machines – note the missing figure yet? I’ll point it out for you, these machines are in fact, NEW and are called Core 2 Duo.
oooooo…innovative.
Now I can use that idea for our laptops and call my own creation.
Please don’t hate me because I’m so smart.
Michael S. Dell
Chairman of the Board, Dell
Would be great, but wouldn’t the camera pick up a greenish hue?
In a word, yes. There are ways to calibrate the camera to overcome it though…
It’s the beginning of the Chameleon Technology people. There will be another light indicator for email arrivals, chats, a text message on your iPhone, etc.
http://www.macobserver.com/columns/devilsadvocate/2004/20030813.shtml
One more time… I don’t have any third party RAM – just the over priced Apple kind – no problem software – almost 100% Apple’s software only – right now, am running one PowerMac G5, one iMac, and one PowerBook. Other family members are running a variety of other Macs.
As to repairing disk permissions, Apple’s own instructions and their first fix for problems is to tell you to repair disk permissions. In fact, their instructions are to do it routinely especially if you are running lots of iLife (like I do).
Apple also tells you to trash preference files all the time to clear up shutdowns, crashes, freezes, slow operations and all kinds of other problems.
This means their products are ABSOLUTELY DO NOT “JUST WORK”.
It appears most of the posters around here just use their machines for fun, love the look and feel, and care very little about performance.
No wonder Steve is so wealthy – he, like P. T. Barnum, has you guys figured out.
Oh, and Apple tells you all the time to ‘restart’ or do a shutdown and relaunch to clear things up so your machine will run again.
NO, THEIR STUFF DOES NOT ‘JUST WORK’. Whenever Steve says that, he is lying.