When you start up a Mac, it goes “bong,” and that’s the way the world should be. Unless, that is, you bought a Mac in 2016 or later, when Apple removed the Mac startup chime. These days, a Mac starts ...

Apple did away with plenty of popular features in its new MacBook Pro lineup, including SD card support and MagSafe adapters. But a classic, underappreciated attribute, the famous Mac startup chime, ...

Numerous issues with stalls and complete failures during startup are covered in our tutorial "Startup fails (particularly after a system or security update); solving." That article, however, deals ...

For the past week whenever I wake my Mac Pro (early 2008 2.8Ghz octo) it makes this high pitched "chime" sound. The chime lasts for about 0.5s and sounds about the same pitch as a airplane chime (the ...