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I find it odd that the power indicator light on the front is always visible, even though the machine is clearly not plugged in.

On the older aluminium MacBook Pro, it used to blend into the chassis.

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Agreed. Maybe a slightly different manufacturing process that makes the fancy laser lancing impossible? Maybe they don’t have those machines anymore (IIRC there was only really one company making the equipment to do it)?

Yea, the pre-unibody Macbook Pro had invisible power and camera lights. No idea how they made the light go through a piece of seemingly solid metal. Always thought it was a cool effect and it's too bad they dropped it.

Not invisible, just hard to spot. There were a bunch of tiny holes that let the light through.

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