Rejoice! Apple removes irritating startup chime from MacBook Pros

At one time it was used for diagnostics, but the world moved on. Now Apple finally has too with its new laptop, the first of a brave new line of chimeless Macs

Apple has finally put one of the most annoying and potentially embarrassing aspects of the MacBook Pro to bed: the Mac startup chime is no more.

Instead the new MacBook Pros, both with and without the new emoji bar, will silently boot the moment they switch on.