Summary of successive 'death SE' that can be heard only when the Mac crashes

Like the startup sound of Windows XP, the SE that sounds when the OS starts or shuts down evokes the feeling of 'nostalgia.' In addition to these SEs at startup and shutdown, the Macintosh, which is an Apple PC, has a 'death-only SE' that can be heard only in the event of a crash.

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◆ Macintosh II series
The Macintosh II series, which realized the first full 32-bit and color display of Macintosh, has a difference in dead sound between the first Macintosh II and the successors Macintosh IIcx and Macintosh IIfx. The following are the death sounds of each. The characteristic of IIcx is that the sound of hitting the keyboard is momentarily inserted at the beginning, and the sound of IIfx is extended as a whole.

・Macintosh II

・Macintosh IIcx

・Macintosh IIfx


◆ Macintosh LC
The Macintosh LC, which has a thin and distinctive body called the 'pizza box,' was the cheapest and most compact model of the color-compatible Macintosh at the time, with the abbreviation 'LC (low cost color).' Such an LC has an SE with a mysterious tone following the start of 'ping pong pawn'.

・Macintosh LC


◆ Macintosh Quadra AV
The Macintosh Quadra , which was positioned as the highest-end model among Motorola's 68000 series CPUs, had the same dead sound as the LC. However, among the Quadra series, Quadra AV , which has audiovisual (AV) functions such as video input / output, telecommunications, voice recognition, and extended audio, is a dead sound that is completely different from the conventional Macintosh, and it is like an electronic sound. It has SE like no ringtone.

・Macintosh Quadra AV


◆ Power Macintosh 6100/7100 & Performa 6100
Macintoshes released in the early 1990s, such as the 6100/7100, the first generation of the Power Macintosh , and its low-end Power Macintosh 6100 , shared the same fatal sound as a car accident.

・Power Macintosh 6100 ・ 7100 & Performa 6100


◆ Other Performas
Positioned as a low-end Power Macintosh machine, the Performa series is a dead sound like the 'SE when cursed' that is common in games. Since the Performas series was sold as an aircraft for PC beginners and home use in the early days of the spread of the Internet, it is also the aircraft that became the 'first Macintosh' for many users.

・Other Performas


◆ 2nd Generation Power Macintosh
Among the Power Macintosh series, the second generation such as 7500, 8500, and 9500 are also called 'PCI Power Mac' because they were characterized by having a PCI slot. Such a PCI PowerMac had a dead sound like broken glass.

· 2nd Generation Power Macintosh


Apple PCs since the iMac released in 1998 do not have a death sound. However, I don't want to hear the death sound as much as possible, so I don't seem to hear a strong request to 'revive the death sound'.