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Reason #723 Why I Use a Mac
My MacBook speakers are pretty pathetic, so I always have the volume near maximum.
But I also use my headphones quite frequently with my MacBook, and my (awesome) headphones can get extremely loud.
You could imagine this being a big problem. Volume is cranked up for the MacBook, I plug in headphones, only to go deaf because the volume is way too high.
But no, Mac OS X actually remembers two volume settings - one for the internal speakers and one for the headphone jack. When you unplug headphones, OS X remembers the volume setting and restores it when you plug your headphones back in*. My ears are very thankful.
- There may even be a third for the digital audio output (or a USB audio output)… Does anyone know?
** This is vaguely similar to another Apple UI niceness - recent iPods automatically pause the song that is playing when the headphones are unplugged.
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cowsandmilk reblogged this from answers and added:
yeah, every iPod I’ve owned has done this, and I’m on my fourth iPod…
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answers reblogged this from 2arrs2ells and added:
first-gen Mini (for Tiff), did that. It’s probably an older feature than we realize.
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