[wlesieutre]

Random trivia, this is the last model where the Apple logo on the back of the screen is oriented to be right side up for the user when they close the display.

Their next laptop was the G4 titanium, which rotated the logo to be right side up when looking at the back of the screen while it's open.

[dylan604]

The fact that they made it glow when open is what made the decision just so weird. The only way it would glow was when it was open. So the fact that they made it not glow when they did flip it was just all sorts of whathehuh? kind of logic.

[dhosek]

Non-glowing logo was long after the flipped logo.

[jjtheblunt]

check where the wifi antenna was on the G4, if ifixit still has that? or maybe just panel manufacturer specs changed?

[dylan604]

did you reply in the wrong place? i'm not following

[jjtheblunt]

might have better fit with the reply above mine, but the huh part i assert might be related to a move of where the wifi antenna went, from a plastic body to a metal body, because it's got to "see" out. maybe the wifi antenna in the first metal body hides behind the logo, but i'm not sure.

i tried looking at ifixit teardowns and couldn't tell.

[MenhirMike]

I remember the cheers in the audience when Jobs mentioned that they rotated the logo.

[thinkingemote]

Didnt thinkpads do the same at some point?

[scrlk]

The 2013 models rotated the logo on the lid. This was the year where they shipped the awful trackpoint with no physical trackpoint buttons, just a big clickpad.

[theodric]

The moment they went from premium computing device to status symbol?

Out: YOU have a Macintosh

In: $$ THIS GUY $$ has a $$ Macintosh $$

[wlesieutre]

I do think it's the better way to put it, just interesting to note that this is where it flipped.

Couldn't say what the original intent was, I guess if you leave the laptop closed on your desk when you aren't using it that would be nicer to look at? But realistically I'd see it that way for about half a second between closing the laptop and sticking it in a bag.

[nlunbeck]

Iirc it had to do with product designers finding that users would try to open the laptop from the wrong end

[numpad0]

lol no, Macintosh was always a status symbol.

[usrusr]

In the days of those early G3, every non-stationary computer was a status symbol.

[wlesieutre]

$2500 laptop in 2000 is equivalent to $4,457 in 2023 dollars