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Apple MacBook Coming in Colors?

I want like a wood color...like walnut or something...it could be cool.
Some Brazilian Cherry perhaps. What am I doing, I need to work on my paper... ;(
 
Kelmon said:
Please, for the love of God, change the hideous aluminium coloured keyboard


I quite like the Aluminium colour of the rest of the unit but I do like a contrasting colour for the keyboard (ala the black of my PowerBook).
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Really? Please no. That's something I don't understand about almost every PC laptop on the market. The vast majority of them make their keyboards & trackpads a different color. Ugh! A keyboard (& trackpad) that is the same color as the machine looks MUCH better IMO.

EricNau said:
No, metal will be saved for "Pro" computers.
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But if the 12" PB is going away, I don't see why they wouldn't offer AL as an option, even if it was a $50 or $100 buy-up option (due to a more expensive material compared to plastic).



While part of me thinks that white, black & aluminum is the way to go, another part of me sees how crazy my fiance goes over pink goods. She has a pink mini, and also just got a pink razr (with matching pink BT earpiece). From what I've heard, those colored razrs are selling very well.

This stuff goes in cycles...seems like we are entering a color cycle again...
 
I don't think coloured MacBooks would look "girly". I'd be tempted to get a nice blue or green model. The plain white looks kind of dull to me when compared to a PowerBook.
 
A BIG yes to colors!

Come on Apple, surprise us once more.

I wan't all the mini's colors if not more! But keep the white and black options.
 
ccool2ax said:
IT'S NOT GOING TO BE CALLED THE MACBOOK! Shut up! It's like renaming the iMac! If there was no Pro at the end of MacBook Pro, then this discussion wouldn't happen! The pro's just there incase one forgets that it's a pro machine, not to differentiate it from another model! Besides, would you really want to kill all that name recognition with a name as ugly as MacBook?
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Someone ought to be demoted back to macrumors newbie. :rolleyes:

MacMosher said:
a Carbon one would look AMAZING
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I agree ... think I might actually choose carbon/black over the white one Apple will offer. (don't think keyboard/trackpad would be white on the black model, tho)

;)

Decisions, decisions!
 
Kelmon-
The silver keyboard is GORGEOUS - as is the trackpad, it's what sets the MBP apart from every silver plastic Dell and the like - silver plastic housing with black plastic keyboards.

ImAlwaysRight-
Looks like an Alienware or FN laptop - I'll stick with the matte aluminum.
 
n-abounds said:
I want like a wood color...like walnut or something...it could be cool.
Some Brazilian Cherry perhaps. What am I doing, I need to work on my paper... ;(
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The MacBook Woody? :p
 
Check this out:

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There's this company called ColorWare that gives quality professional paint jobs to your Mac or iPod when you send it in. There's a huge selection of tones to choose from... you can even choose two tones. It's cost me a steep $399, but I'm VERY happy with my shiny black iBook G4. Not something you see everyday! Mine also doesn't scratch very easily.

http://www.colorwarepc.com
 
Black, White, Aluminum and Pink

livingfortoday said:
But...! Woodgrain would look great in my Victorian-era mansion! I could work on it while I sat in my majestic chair in front of the fireplace smoking a pipe and drinking whatever we rich folk drink! Something old from a large barrel! And I would send my butler out to "go to the iTunes store and get me more MP3's" and whatnot, and it'd be MARVELOUS!
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ROFL!

Black - We kick the Thinkpad out of the corporate world.
White - For all those designers that like simplicity.
Aluminum - For the rest of us (but another maybe darker aluminum)
Pink - For all the Paris Hilton's out there.

Edit: I doubt Paris Hilton can use a computer, but definitely a joystick!
 
ImAlwaysRight said:
Someone ought to be demoted back to macrumors newbie. :rolleyes:


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I agree ... think I might actually choose carbon/black over the white one Apple will offer. (don't think keyboard/trackpad would be white on the black model, tho)

;)

Decisions, decisions!
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That does look good... but I was refering to like carbon graphite, like not the colour (yes I spelt it with a "u"), but like the actual material.
 
nuthou5e said:
I remember this story about an apple patent application two years ago discussing color changing chassis and I believe this LED color changing fiber optics in the translucent iBooks and iMacs. I think the main factor on implementing such a technology would be its impact on battery life. With Apple switching to lower power intel chips, this would be the time to do it. Starting with the iBook would be eye-catching and cause media buzz.

Apple patents 'chameleon' computer case
Posted on Monday, 16 August, 2004 by Steve

The Register has discovered a patent granted to Apple that applies to a machine which can change colour.
...the patent covers "a computing device [which] includes a housing having an illuminable portion. The computing device also includes a light device disposed inside the housing. The light device is configured to illuminate the illuminable portion".

The light source is a collection of red, green and blue LEDs, capable of being used to generate any colour entered as an RGB value.

Might this be a feature of the next generation of iMac? At this stage, it's too early to say. Having maintained a single colour scheme - white and chrome - for its consumer computers, Apple may now be looking at returning to the iMac's most successful period, when the machine shipped in a range of bright colours.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/16/apple_colour_patent/
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myself:) said:
Am I completely off-base, or do I seem to remember something about color-shifting from months ago... imagine if the exterior casing of the MacBook was color-shiftable... Buy it in White or Black, and then color-shift on a picture/pattern/different color. Don't know about the feasibility, but would make Apple by far the most ingenious laptop-maker: give everyone what they want without increasing your own costs. At least they should consider it for the light-up Apple logo
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I knew I wasn't completely off-base with that one.:D
 
macpastor said:
They were able to do the Mini IPod in aluminum with colors that withstood scratches well. Why not do the same thing with the MacBook?
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I was thinking this, too. I'm definitely in the market for a new MacBook.

(cause while my iBook has lost $1000 worth of value in the last 2 years all the options that made it $1800+ to begin with are all standard now.)
 
One issue a lot of people are missing. The iBook is highly used by a lot of college students. As a CPA and Financial advisor I understand what apple wants to do, gain more market share and bring in more income. The key here is marketing more people, especially college students. College students are the key for any business to target, believe it or not, students are going to spend more then anyone in the computer market. If your son or daughter was accepted to Duke, Charlotte, or UVA and of course they need a notebook. So you would let them get an apple b/c of course they are the best, and they would want it b/c it is their favorite color. iBooks are consumer PCs, where the MacBook/Powerbook is the professional machine. I could care less what the ibook/macbook color is, but the promachines should be pro colors, black and silver. Color iBooks are a key for apple to increase market share from the current 4% to 6-8% with the colors.

MacBook Pro-Professional Colors

Macbooks/iBooks-solid slick colors (blue, green, red, white, and pink) For college students and high school.
 
Neither good nor bad

I think that this isn't a great thing nor a horrible thing. When I bought an iPod Mini, I had the selection of colors but i still ended up buying the silver becuase, in my opinion, the other colros were too "girly" If these new MacBooks have less pastel-ish type of color i would maybe get a colored one if not i'm sure they will "never" get rid of the white and it will always be an option, all the consumer mac products are white and i think they will stay with that for a while. They didn't introduce any color other then black or white for the nano which "replaced" the mini. Just my 2¢. All I want is for them to come out!!!

P.S. Anyone want to buy an iBook G4 como drive 1.33 40Gb?
 
Colors=Money

One issue a lot of people are missing. The iBook is highly used by a lot of college students. As a CPA and Financial advisor I understand what apple wants to do, gain more market share and bring in more income. The key here is marketing more people, especially college students. College students are the key for any business to target, believe it or not, students are going to spend more then anyone in the computer market. If your son or daughter was accepted to Duke, Charlotte, or UVA and of course they need a notebook. So you would let them get an apple b/c of course they are the best, and they would want it b/c it is their favorite color. iBooks are consumer PCs, where the MacBook/Powerbook is the professional machine. I could care less what the ibook/macbook color is, but the promachines should be pro colors, black and silver. Color iBooks are a key for apple to increase market share from the current 4% to 6-8% with the colors.

MacBook Pro-Professional Colors

Macbooks/iBooks-solid slick colors (blue, green, red, white, and pink) For college students and high school.
 
Enigmac said:
Check this out:

intel_mac_mini.jpg


There's this company called ColorWare that gives quality professional paint jobs to your Mac or iPod when you send it in. There's a huge selection of tones to choose from... you can even choose two tones. It's cost me a steep $399, but I'm VERY happy with my shiny black iBook G4. Not something you see everyday! Mine also doesn't scratch very easily.

http://www.colorwarepc.com
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OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But do you have to buy the computer from them? Or can you send in one that you already have, and they'll coat it?
 
PPC970FX said:
Have you all forgotten the patent that the computer can "change" the colors by using LEDs under the plastic. Like the on light is green and the sleep is yellow. This is just the hole computer.

Think new, think better.
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I for one haven't forgotten that patent, and still wonder if and when Apple will make use of it. I'd love to have a Mac whose case color changes under computer control.
 
Macgeek...you cna just send them in to them i am pretty sure it's kinda spendy but worth it, i'm pretty positive it dosen't void the warrenty either cuz they don't open it. I was going to get my ipod done but ended up not doing it cuz of the $$
 
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