New MacBook Pro ditches the start-up chime, but there’s a way to get it back

Over the past few months, we’ve seen Apple remove the headphone port from the iPhone and the function keys from its new MacBook Pro. Now there’s word that the company has eliminated another longstanding component of its flagship laptop — the famous Mac start-up chime.
Macs have made a chiming noise at start-up since the 1980s, and since 1999 the sound has been a standard F-sharp major chord across all of Apple’s computers. The chime was memorably featured in Pixar’s Wall-E, serving as the start-up tone for the titular robot.
The new range of MacBook Pro systems will not use the iconic start-up chime by default, according to a report from Pingie. However, there is a good reason for the change — the laptop doesn’t initialize in the same way that its predecessors did.