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.
It’s the little things like this that impress Tricky Dick the most. Bravo on this one, Apple. Makes me hope that you -are- preparing that oft-rumored “iPhone.”
RMN
Peterson. Have you been taking Midol again?
Ron, PLEASE. It’s not Midol, it’s Oxycontin. You should keep to the facts. It’s an illness.
One VERY minor detail that’s been bugging me since I first noticed it: the third MacBook Pro picture in the gallery doesn’t have the IR sensor in the reflection. I’ve emailed them a few times about it, hoping they might put it back in whatever photo-editing program and add it in, but since they haven’t done it yet I don’t think they ever will. One attention to detail that was overlooked, I guess…
Peterson –
We’re so sorry you are having problems. Even Apple does sometimes have a problem with an occasional machine. Please get a hold of a Apple service center and get your machine fixed.
(what a concept – when you sell a million laptops, if you have 0.1% failure rate that still means a thousand laptops with a problem)
MDN Magic Word “looked” – Peterson should have looked further to get his problems fixed instead of having a brain cramp and acting like EVERY APPLE LAPTOP ON THE PLANET IS DEFECTIVE BECAUSE HIS DOESN’T WORK!
Peterson– I have a MacBook and MacBook Pro. No random shutdowns. No permissions issues. No heat. No burning batteries. Nothing. So based on that statistical sample of n=2, apparently the MacBooks are perfect.
However, my story is probably the majority story, since the people who are satisfied rarely bitch.
MDN Magic Word–Prozac, the wonderful pill for stressed out Petersons.
Are we gonna spend all weekend smackin’ Peters around?
I really should preoofread more
I meant to say
are we going to spend all weekend beating Peters on his laptop?
OK, sorry, this is starting to pound like a James Webb novel…
butt, in all horesty, I cun’t seem to s hit the right peys.
I did get a newd set of condom lens,
But I fill wet it sn Apples fault
The iMac C2D have the same design, so this must be a rerun from the consumer level to the pro level.
Peterson:
Compared to my XP machine, and my daughter’s brand new school-leased ThinkPad, even my 1st gen G4 mac mini “JUST WORKS” much better then those two.
If you want to accuse someone of lying, you should look to Bill Gates. All my literature for Windows OS software boasts of being “stable” and “secure”. Surely you can admit that is a lie.
Oh yeah – even my other daughter’s G3 iBook is more reliable than my other XP computers.
Mind you, I quite like the imperfect slight off-centreness…
Another item of attention-to-detail is the iPod icon on the desktop, when it is plugged in to the Mac. The color of the iPod nano icon matches the color of the connected iPod nano. When I was playing with the 24-inch iMac at the Apple Store, I was as impressed by that little bit of detail as I was with the huge screen iMac.
it’s still imbalanced if the light is on. not so clever after all.
“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.”
Have been working Mac 10 hours a day for 15 years. No problems here.
All the Adobe / MS etc apps and more…
There are just dumb people who don’t know how to run computers.
Yep that little hole is the mike
… and OMFG Apple is sooo fooked beacuse it cant fix my personal shortcomings!!!
“it’s still imbalanced if the light is on. not so clever after all”
did you even think about it? I don’t think so. don’t complain. design is not easy process. just blame for it is very easy.
The MDN group in these posts are but a tiny fraction of the total number of Apple hardware and software owners – kind of like Apple has a tiny fraction of the national and global computer market.
And, the MDN group is made up of Steve worshipers who believe he can do no wrong, and that his products are perfect. Irrational though you may be, it is the case.
As we speak, there are 10s of thousands of discussions going on inside Apple’s “Support” forums. Almost all of these discussions are about problems – and far beyond those few I have mentioned – making any claim of a tiny percentage of machines with problems another one of Apple’s lies.
Yes, I know many of the posts in the discussions forums are from newbies who don’t know what they are doing, but the result is the same.
APPLE’S STUFF DOES NOT ‘JUST WORK’. In fact, their stuff is full of problems and they are getting worse as Apple moves ever so quickly to being AVERAGE because guys like those who swoon around these MDN discussions are willing to keep on fawning over declining quality.
Peterson,
I care for about 50 Macs right now. Mix of G5 Towers, Intel Mini’s, PowerBooks and MacBook Pro’s, iBooks, eMacs, iMacs Intel and PowerPC, . And that’s just THIS year! I’ve a history since 1986. Private owned and work machines. I’ve worked with hundreds of different models of Macs for years.
What you describe just is not the norm.
I will tell you one oddity. Had ONE computer that was doing some of the stuff you described. The cause had nothing to do with the computer it ended up being a bad power source–brown out electricity and other impure line problems. Buy yourself a DECENT power protector that keeps the power pure. Crappy power can raise all kinds of odd hell with your computer and if you don’t suspect that and blame the computer, it’s impossible to troubleshoot or solve. Because it’s not the source of the issue. It can be ONE computer in one room and all others will run well. Or one plug. Damage may already be done. It can take out a video card, or cause major drive issues. Run diagnostic software, repair all damages and then don’t replug until you purchase the surge/brown out protector.
Space heaters and washer/dryeres kicking on or vacs on the same circuit can cause minor brown outs in a home.
Peterson,
Apple is shipping millions of machines. Their rate of defects is exceptionally low. I know that it sucks when your machine is one of the ones that has a problem, but you’re not going to fix it by bitching about it. Take it to a service provider.
-jcr
TowerTone, what the fuck did you say about Jim Webb? You better keep your mouth shut, asshole.
RMN
@ Peterson: no trouble with my apple software. maybe u just dont know how to use it.
@ MacMan: Something like this?
@ Jaakko: i like your thinking..that would be sweet as.