When I first saw this picture 20 years ago it had less jpeg.
16 years ago to be exact … and the original, although considered to be high quality for the internet at the time, had a lot of jpeg to begin with. It might have looked good on my old 17" CRT at the time.
University Missouri School of Journalism
Date 27 August 2007, 17:35:57https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Université_Missouri_School_of_Journalism.jpg
MacBooks haven’t even had glowing logos since 2016.
That was a cool design. Idk why they axed it.
Because of how thin the modern screens are nowadays. Iirc, the logo would shine through and make a bright spot on the screen if made on modern macs.
My iBook G4 just used the screen backlight for the logo. It was kinda dim compared to my 09 Macbook but it still lit up.
Though I guess ambient light might be an issue as someone mentioned.
Yep!
Some of my old Macs had LCD fading right in the middle where the logo was. Was Hella annoying
Wait for real? They killed the logo light? Never giving up this 2012 mbp I guess.
Yeah, the newer displays are just too thin for it. The backlit design was clever at the time, with the logo being illuminated by the display’s own backlight, but now at current thickness levels, it would cause ambient light to shine through the logo and back onto the display too noticeably.
OP, you gotta remember to reach in the back for the fresh memes.
Guessing that the uni in question has a deal with apple - teaching at a uni with a Lenovo deal, most lectures look exactly like this but with a different logo on the laptops
You really fired those neurons for this meme OP
As a windows user, switching to a Mac for software development… I absolutely get it.
As a Linux user, using a mac is for software development… Kinda unnecessary overhead.
Why would you need a mac for software development? For Swift?
Yeah, it’s weird that people say that when visual studio 20XX is windows only and the most popular IDE (IIRC).
I used to be a pure Win dev and used Docker, and so did half of my in-person team. And when we had windows issues, it was always this weird edge-case of “oh, this is only happening on Dave’s comp. Or Sarah’s. Or Steve’s.” Even on the same computer brands.
Then pandemic happened, and my company gave everyone Macs to work remotely. And my dept tripled and troubleshooting remotely sucks ass. But these Macs, it was all the same. Dealing with tech issues took an hour vs the whole day. And people spent more time coding than fighting their OS.
On windows, You can absolutely use WSL and all these other work around, but I kept having to fight Windows to do something. Drivers. Or permissions. Or some weird ass setting. But on Macs, troubleshooting and problem solving was way easier. Weird to say, but Apple just gets out of your way.
In terms of “I’m just trying to code”, as a Windows user for over 25 years, holy shit Mac just works right out of the box.
And once Linux/proton is more mature, I really can’t see using Windows at all.
Linux on my personal computers for sure. Work? Mac all day. I can install required software and I don’t need some janky Windows terminal emulator. It’s hard to justify Windows for anything besides gaming, and even that is questionable with Linux gaming distros now.
You don’t even need a gaming distro. You just need to install Steam and (for other games) Bottles and you’re pretty much good to go.
