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In the past MacBook models, the Apple Logo on the back cover would glow brightly. In the past, such a design has been jokingly said by many netizens that “the laptops taken out of Starbucks are not trendy enough without this Apple belief lamp.” It’s just that now, according to Apple’s latest patent submission, the faith lamp hanging on the MacBook is expected to return.
Apple’s new patent, filed in May and published last week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, focuses on various implementations of “electronic devices with partially mirrored structures for backlighting.”
According to the description of the patent document, a logo can be set on the back of the casing of a notebook computer or other electronic device, and a part of the mirror can be installed in the logo or other structure. The mirror can provide a shiny appearance for the logo or other structure, but at the same time can block Internal components are seen.
The three engineers listed in the document only joined Apple in 2018, but Apple has canceled the MacBook Logo light-emitting feature for several years before, which may mean that the new patent’s light-emitting presentation is different from the past.
The first Mac notebook with a luminous logo was the third-generation PowerBook G3 launched in 1999. In the following 16 years, the luminous Apple Logo has become the lamp of faith in the hearts of many users.
It was not until 2015 that Apple began to cancel the luminous Logo design on laptops, and the 12-inch MacBook launched at that time did not have this function; after Apple launched the MacBook Pro in 2016, which did not have a luminous Logo, the outside world did not really realize that Apple does not There will be another MacBook product equipped with a belief lamp.
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