It's a part of the cover of the first SF book I ever read, "Conscience Interplanetary" by Joseph Green. I had to search a little, but yes, it is Kelly Freas. Good eye.
BTW: Even firmware comes with some "weight". Boot time may be longer, the dictionary would take up memory, and if they are working on that then they aren't doing other stuff like adding in the ability to disable the new autoshutdown "feature".