Hi, it is just the backlight of your Macbook shining through a clear plastic apple on the lid. Turn screen brightness to 0, and no more apple lighting up on your lid.
hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 23, 2012, at 11:12 PM, "Christopher-Mark gilland" <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, so you're probably looking at my subject line going, what the... heck? > Hear me out. Yes I was kind a kidding in the subject, but this actually is a > true legitimate question, I swear. LOL! > > So, I can't speak for the macbook airs, nor for the macbook pros of any > flavor, but I know at least that on the white polly-carbon standard macbooks, > if you look on the back of the screen, pretty much about in the dead smack > center, you're gonna feel ingraved cut into the plastic, a very tactal > outline of an apple. I know, you're probably going, yeah? so? Here's the > catch. I dono if yall knew this, but, I have a bit more vision than just > light preception. I can't read the screen, not even close, but I can see > shape, color, light, and sometimes depending on the setting, even some very > noticeable facial expressions, so I'd say my vision loss is pretty > significant, yes, but nowhere near total, thank God. With this said, I dono > if yall knew this, but as long as the macbook's screen is up... opened > rather, and as long as the system is on, who cares if you're booted or if you > have a crashed paper weight, God forbid, bottom line is, as long as it's > opened and the unit is powered on, that apple actually lights up. No, I'm > seriously not? kidding! Ask a sighted person if ya don't believe me. And > believe me, it's pretty much as bright as the screen would be at 100%. > > Even hitting fn+F1 (as my keys are set to software by default, not > hardware...), to dim the screen, that doesn't decrease the brightness of the > l e d in that apple. So aside taking a drum set stick and going kurbango, > Sm'm'mash! w'w'wack, on the thing... ok, I'm kidding, LOL! Seriously > though... is there a way less distructively, LOL! to somehow use a 3rd party > app, or maybe something to modify the efi and allow me to have that stupid > thing that does us blinks no good aside draining our batteries quicker, not > light up at all? > > Honestly, it's driving me crazy! > > Chris. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
