And for just a bit of history, prior to the G4 powerbook all the logos
were upside down. Apparently Steve J. wanted the Apple facing upright
when you were first ready to open the laptop (best user experience)
which meant that once it was open the Apple was standing on its head.
That was fixed with the titanium powerbook G4 in 2001.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/22/tech/gaming-gadgets/apple-upside-down-logo/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G4
CB
On 8/24/12 6:44 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
Hi! On my 2011 macbook pro the brightness of the apple is dependent on the
brightness of the screen. I don't have quite as
much vision as you do: only light and color perception out of my right eye, but
a friend told me that as I dimmed the screen,
the apple was also dimming, so maybe it's a change they made in newer hardware?
Personally, I wish I could see the apple; my
macbook has a blue shell, so the apple would light up blue, but my macbook
almost always lives on a desk, so the apple only
shines on a wall and is never seen. I've only seen it once the first week I got
the mac, and being the light junky that I am,
I loved it. You should see my PC tower; it would probably drive you nuts!
Anyhoo, I know that what you want to do seems
possible with newer hardware, but am not sure how it could be done on the
system you have. Good luck, and sorry for the
aimless rambling. I just woke up. LOL!
Missy
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Christopher-Mark gilland
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:12 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Awe, how coot! Look at the perty little Apple. Not?
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.
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