Red apple on startup

I noticed that when I upgraded to 10.9.3 that when powering on my MacBook Pro-retina, that the Apple splash screen is now flashing a red apple insted of the usual grey.
Is this normal? If not, what does it signify?
Thank you!

You're not alone. It's happening to my PowerBook Pro running 10.9.3, as well.
Anyone else seeing this change in startup behaviour after updating to 10.9.3?
Regards,
Darran

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airhooo wrote:
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