Re:Macintosh Startup Sound History [video]
by jerrysievert on Friday June 15, 2018 @11:51AM
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that's ok, you'll get used to it as you fall into the comforting sound of "blonk" over and over again, as that USB-C cable that's charging it loosens and slides in and out as you use it.
Re:Macintosh Startup Sound History [video]
by Apocryphon on Friday June 15, 2018 @03:19PM
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Another reason to dislike the TouchBar MacBook.
Re:Macintosh Startup Sound History [video]
by kitsunesoba on Friday June 15, 2018 @01:12PM
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Can sounds be played from EFI? It might be possible to create a stub EFI bootloader that does nothing but play the chime and kick off the normal macOS boot process.
EDIT: In fact I think Apple may have done something like this in their own EFI for the startup chime on Intel Macs – compared to PPC Macs, the sound was always a little delayed and clearly played further into the boot process.
Honestly, as much as the Mac startup sound makes me nostalgic, if I was going to go to that much effort, I might as well have it play the SGI Indy's glorious startup sound [0].
It was always incredibly mesmerising to unwrap a new Mac, boot it and hear that sound. Like buying a car and listening to the engine powering on the first time.