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Comment by JustSomeNobody | Hacker News Reader

Wait, there's no charging light anymore? That's actually pretty sad. I like that on mine.

It is definitely something that I miss. I would actually be pretty happy to pay a $15 premium for a USB-C cable that integrated MagSafe style charging LEDs into its circuitry.

There's no need for a charging light because it's USB-C, so you know whether it's plugged in or not. Whereas with the MagSafe it could be only partially connected, and the only way to know that was the light. You still need to know whether the plug is actually plugged into the wall, but you can just look at the menu bar for that.

> but you can just look at the menu bar for that.

Not if the lid is closed.

The charging light also tells me whether or not my laptop is done charging by means of an orange or green light.

There's no charging light on the iPad or iPhone either

Which sucks. I can't count the amount of times I've plugged in my iPad to charge and forgotten to check if the wall socket is switched on. On my android phone on the other hand I've never had this problem because there is an led which tells me if it's charging or not

Yeah, the difference there is that you have to crack open your laptop or power it on to know if it's charging if there's no light. iPad? Press a button. Now you know if you're good or not.

Audio feedback isn't too useful either

The charging light was a good innovation back when Apple introduced it. The rationale for having it there hasn't changed. Removing it was a clear regression.

Just read your comment again. The charging light was useful, and you suggest looking at the menu bar?

> There's no need for a charging light because it's USB-C, so you know whether it's plugged in or not

I can't count the number of times my Mac wasn't charging because the USB-C cable was detached only half a millimeter.

I can also confirm the super buggy touch bar (missing buttons, non-responsive buttons) and many graphic glitches (esp. in combination with Flux). Still hoping an OS X update will fix this.

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