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Generally people prefer to look at the screen. Extraneous lights are distracting.
by Raphael 16y ago
Generally people prefer to look at the screen. Extraneous lights are distracting.
- alphabeat 16y agoThen give them a choice. The inverse of which is one of Apple's tenants for a holistic ecosystem.
- joshwa 16y agoFor one of the primary usecases (frequent traveler) the backlit keyboard is pretty important--try typing on a dark plane with the backlight off. Fine most of the time, but when you have to hunt for which symbol is which, or you're not a great touch typer, then you're going to have a much harder time. That said, my guess is that it's a major battery-suck, and that's why they took it out. White LEDs require non-trivial amounts of power.
- stcredzero 16y agoI'd gladly "settle" for red LED backlights!