35 points | by bobbiechen 2 days ago ago
5 comments
The sleeping light - because what all hardware requires is blindingly bright LEDs that are always on. Even when that hardware is asleep
I think the sleep light on the white plastic iBook was the first product feature I truly loved. My greatest hope is that I should be so lucky as to invent a single thing as great over the course of my lifetime.
This is a neat article.
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.
That last ~gif~ mov really looks like a sleeping robot from a Pixar movie.
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.
The dot in the "i" in "Thinkpad" on my laptop's lid does this, copying the mac, I expect. It's red, mimicking the trackpoint.
The sleeping light - because what all hardware requires is blindingly bright LEDs that are always on. Even when that hardware is asleep
I think the sleep light on the white plastic iBook was the first product feature I truly loved. My greatest hope is that I should be so lucky as to invent a single thing as great over the course of my lifetime.
This is a neat article.
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.
That last ~gif~ mov really looks like a sleeping robot from a Pixar movie.
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.
The dot in the "i" in "Thinkpad" on my laptop's lid does this, copying the mac, I expect. It's red, mimicking the trackpoint.