Why don't Macs have hard drive activity lights?
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After seeing this question, it made me wonder: why don't Macs have hard drive activity lights? It seems there is no actual meaningful use for them nowadays, so is that why Apple decided not to include them on Macs? If so, why do PC manufacturers still insist on putting them on every single computer?
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I'm surprised at the number of people who don't see a use for HD activity lights. I can think of several: Knowing when your computer is slow/frozen because of disk I/O instead of a hung process or error Indication that there is a lot of disk I/O whe…
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