This is SO much more attractive than Space Grey. Ugh space grey is so ugly. I can barely believe how ugly it is. To my eye, Silver is the only correct color for a Powerbook/Macbook Pro... and.... this might tip me.
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Apple Researching a Matte Black Finish for MacBooks
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Silver to me is the only color all MacBooks should be. After all, the original aluminum MacBooks have been silver since the beginning of time and they've been an Apple icon ever since. Fast forward to today where they're offering multiple colors which IMO is making these MacBooks look more like toys than actual Apple icons.
Cool concept, but it will age terribly, like basically any dyed or coated metal item that sees high amounts of handling. Scratches will reveal the base aluminium and really stick out, edges will wear, etc. Will also be a huge fingerprint and grease magnet.
Look at a Razer laptop after a year or two of use.
Look at a Razer laptop after a year or two of use.
I have always thought the reason they couldn’t go black is due to heat. With the m1’s, now they can
Because making an entire aluminum out of black is impossible for the richest company in the world?
The matte black iPhone 7 remains one of my favorites finishes on any Apple product.
Damn you for beating me to this gif. I'm pretty damn ready to needlessly upgrade my 16" for this.I want this!
Yes, but I think that's exactly what Apple would be after. From the link you mentioned:
In fact, since Vantablack absorbs 99.96 percent of the incident light that it comes into contact with, any object coated in it looks to the naked eye like a flat, bottomless void in space.
“If you see it on a 3-D object, like crinkled foil, the coated side still looks like a black two-dimensional flat surface. It’s only when you turn it around and you realize that it’s got a lot of dimensionality, that you grasp how different it is,” Surrey NanoSystems chief technical officer Ben Jensen told ABC recently.
Could you imagine a perfectly black surface but with an Apple logo seemingly floating on top of it when you look at it directly?
If that was offered with a new MacBook, it would be a day one purchase for me, even though I don’t really need one.
Hopefully Apple doesn't do what they did on the first gen of this machine. It was $150 more expensive than the white version with identical internals. When they moved from Core to Core 2 it was still a $50 bump—and it worked because I paid it!
Yeah its true. And, the Powerbook G3 in black was a gorgeous machine. If this ends up feeling like that I might be in.