Ironically, after a series of uninspiring Windows machines the next laptop that made me feel any level of enthusiasm like that Mac is my current Framework 13 running COSMIC on NixOS. Quite an about face!
> [The power] light informs the user that the X41 is on—no, really. There should be an ontological indicator next to it to let the user know the computer really exists.
https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2010/a-pumpkin-that-sleeps-...
At night it is very hard to have a dark room to sleep in small apartments or bedrooms when you have so many of them. Tv sleep lights, set top box, computers sleep and power plugged lights, small electronic devices and appliances like the one displaying time. Power multipliers that often have a safety power on light, ...
Didn't seem like anything special and I always just assumed it was inspired by something like that since it's another type of indicator.
I don’t think I ever thought much about that light but now after reading this article…it really was a pretty cool and useful detail.
The info about how the light’s rhythm was meant to be similar to human breathing is cool too.
I think all my laptops' LEDs first blink wildly when I close them, then change to a slower rhythm, that's not an Apple feature.
It just signaled “we care” so well!
My desk was at the end of my bed. The MacBook with sleep light was always on that. It was never bright at night. Dimming half a second after I turn the light off. Even if the lid was closed.
Oh, also, you can swap batteries of Macs during sleep if it has a removable battery, without losing state.
This is why Apple is Apple.
That era is long dead and gone, regardless of the current state of such a light.
