Has Apple sounded the last POST?
Apple has always chosen form over function, and this isn&#x27;t any exception; the aesthetics of a &quot;clean&quot; boot process is clearly more important to them than being able to easily figure out what&#x27;s happening, and I suspect at least part of the reason for this opaqueness is to encourage learned helplessness and visits to the Apple Store (which may result in upselling or otherwise exchange of $$$) when something doesn&#x27;t work.<p>Personally, I very much like the detailed and informative POST screens that older PCs default to, and indeed the whole audiovisual experience[1] of the boot process. It&#x27;s far more reassuring to see things happening than pressing the power button and being &quot;left in the dark&quot; waiting at a black screen for a few tense moments as <i>something</i> happens.<p>[1] The satisfying &quot;clunk&quot; of the power switch, to the fans and hard drives spinning up, the latter doing their initial seeks once they&#x27;ve reached full speed, the beep of the POST, the buzzing of the memory test, and then the sounds of the disks loading the OS. It&#x27;s all very information-rich, and once you get used to the normal routine, it&#x27;s easy to notice when something changes unexpectedly.