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Apple says goodbye to the iconic startup chime

Posted on Monday, October 31st, 2016 at 5:41 am. PT

Written by Dave Mark

Pingie.com:

Hidden in a tech note for the new MacBook Pros is a death notice of the infamous Mac startup chime. (Update: It is more then confirmed as I own the laptop. There is no chime.)

Here’s a link to an archive of all the Mac startup/crash sounds. Click the link, open the zip file, use Quick Look to listen to each of the sounds. How many of these do you recognize?



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