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Apple Chromes Its Logo

Posted by pudge on from the everything-old-is-new-again dept.

Val42K writes "Personally, I like the original logo, but Apple has decided to changed their familiar logo in the latest release of the OS X operating system. It has the same shape but has a chrome finish, like the robots of Hajime Sorayama." Does it look anything like the image we're using for this story, the one on the outside of most Apple hardware and software boxes? What am I missing?

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  1. Re:well... by media_whore · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember that logo from my high-school years... from that time I found a disk that did something nasty to the Apple 2E (is that what they were called? 2E or II-E or something...) and stopped it booting. I then proceeded to take the disk around and do that nasty thing to every Apple in the school.

  2. Re: that would be correct by ubiquitin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There are people in the public relations world who drool over the possibility of having the world sit around and chat about your logo redesign. This is news for nerds. Apple has had their ten minutes of fame, now it is time for open source to shine. Would a redesigned Debian logo get coverage on slashdot? It shouldn't. The avoidance of mass-commercialism led me to slashdot and now it is driving me away.

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  3. According to a screenshot, by shigelojoe · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Panther can run on a 400 MHz G3 with 192 MB RAM. I wonder how sluggish it is on such a machine. I also wonder who has a pre-release and decided to run it on such a machine.

    Hmmmm......

  4. Re:well... by Graff · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One good thing about the Apple //e was that here was no way that you could permanently mess it up short of physically destroying it. The Apple //e didn't maintain any data between power down and power up so if you screwed it up all you have to do is power down, wait 10 seconds and then power it back up. Yes you could screw up some diskettes and they would never work right again but the Apple //e didn't need a diskette to work.

    So go ahead and mess up every Apple //e in school. I'm sure the administrator just powered them down and back up and they were fine. This is unlike the Commodore 64 which had a nasty bug where if you quickly toggled certain registers you could fry a chip on the motherboard and ruin the entire motherboard. I had a friend who ran a program which turned out to be a trojan horse of sorts and it did just this, toasting his Commodore.

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  5. Re:Apple in two by DaleBob · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah... what's that line supposed to be anyway?

    What I really want to know is why I don't see my eyeball in the reflection when I put my face up to the screen...

  6. Re:Slashdot by 2nd+Post! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why are you asking me?

    You understand perfectly then, don't you? Why do you say, "I don't get it" if you do?

    And that's the heart of American consumerism, isn't it? Class mobility through ownership of goods?

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