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October 28, 2006

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The MacBook Pro’s iSight light: now you see it, now you don’t

Posted Oct. 28, ’06, 8:07 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Hardware

New iSight lightWe know the brand new MacBook Pros feature some things that weren’t found on the older models: the FireWire 800 port, for example. But you might not have noticed that some things have disappeared as well, such as—duh duh duh!—the iSight’s little green indicator light.

Well, it’s not actually gone, of course. But Apple, with its typical flair for design, has decided to conceal the iSight’s indicator light behind the screen’s bezel. User Nobihaya has documented the new feature on Flickr (here’s a shot of the flawless bezel with the light off). For comparison, this is what it used to look like.

My theory? Apple loves to make features unobtrusive. Think of the speakers on the MacBook and the hidden microphone on the MacBook Pro; it’s transparent technology that just works.

[Thanks, Dan G.]


2 Comments

ice_cold_irony said:

Where are the speakers and mike for a macbok anyway? I think the speakers are through the same vents as the fan but the mike has great quality and I have no idea where it is.

October 29, 2006 1:52 PM
Dale Mugford said:

The MacBook's speakers are on the far left nd right sides of the rear of the laptop. It looks like vents, but they're the speaker holes. When the MacBook's lid is open, the sound bounces off of the display.

As for the Mic, the little black hole to the right of the iSight is the Mic, the little black hole on the the right is the iSight indicator light.

October 29, 2006 9:29 PM

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