[AnotherGoodName]

Likely you experienced later gens where they toned it down. ~2010 it was one of the brightest LEDs you could purchase. As in they literally put a torch LED on the all white Intel macbooks of the era and it would shine through the laptop bags, pulsating.

[IncreasePosts]

There's people who live their lives with the low battery beep on their smoke alarm going off every 5 minutes in their home and don't even register it happening.

[throwaway290]

Maybe...

[tomxor]

Not Maybe, I owned a 2009 MBP. Everyone with a macbook from that period that I knew had the same issue, they were absurdly bright, you could not keep it anywhere near a bedroom without putting very thick tape over the light.

It was a poorly thought out design of aesthetics over ergonomics.