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In fact, with the MacBook Pro in 2016, you could literally "turn on" your laptop by lifting the lid. Most likely, removing the startup chime was a signal that the Mac is like the iPhone or iPad in that they're essentially always on. At the time, Apple didn't say anything about why it was removing the sound you hear when you start up a Mac. When you heard it, you knew your Mac was going to boot up. Over the years, the chime changed several times, but the purpose was the same: to tell a user that the computer's hardware had passed diagnostic tests and was working properly. The startup chime had been around since the original Macintosh, though at the time it was more of a beep. That's actually a bigger deal than it might seem.
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