Do you remember the glowing logo on your MacBook? It’s been gone since 2015, but it might make a comeback in future models.
It’s one of the most famous logos of all time, and there was a time when it lit up libraries, lecture halls, and cafes. Since 2015, though, the MacBook’s Apple logo is no longer backlit – but if new rumors are to be believed, the once-iconic design touch could soon make a glowing return.
A new Apple patent has revealed that the company is working on the way to bring back the illuminated logo. But the tech could be entirely different from that of years gone by.
Catchily titled “Electronic Devices With Backlit Partial Mirror Structures,” the patent describes how “the logo or other structures in the device may be provided with a backlit partially reflective mirror. The mirror may give the logo or other structures a shiny appearance while blocking interior components from view. At the same time, the partial transparency of the mirror allows backlight illumination from within the device to pass through the mirror.”
In short, this sounds like a combination of what went before and what we have now. Today’s MacBook Apple logo is mirrored, but this comes at the expense of the backlight. And the new patent suggests Apple may not have been all that keen on killing off the glowing logo in the first place – much to the delight, it seems, of nostalgic Apple fans.
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