An illustrative fairy tale by Victoria

Once upon a time, I had (well, still have) a G5 iMac that lives in my bedroom, on a small desk opposite my bed. Macs are supposed to be able to stay on and "asleep" for long periods of time; it isn't necessary to shut them down. It is in fact helpful to keep them on overnight, since they perform maintenance tasks then. The problem was that my iMac's sleeping would keep me awake! By FLASH---FLASH---FLASHing its little sleep light onto the wall over my bed. So I had to shut it down at night.

Now that could have been the end of the story. But it's not.

Last week, I sat down to my iMac to do some software updates, when lo and behold, there is a firmware update for my Mac that fixes this problem! It automatically dims the sleep light at night, but keeps it bright during the day! I was overjoyed. I had not complained to Apple about it, but they somehow knew and fixed the problem.

Of course, they probably knew because other people complained about the same problem.

But I prefer to think that my iMac took the initiative and made my wishes known to Apple Inc. all by itself.

And you can bet we will both live happily ever after...