I didn’t choose Midnight—it was chosen for me, by my girlfriend who bought be a fully loaded (8/10, 24GB, 2TB) MacBook Air M2.
Yes, I’m a very lucky man.
She choose it because she knows me, and she got advice from a good tech friend as well. Her analysis, and mine, of the colors runs like this:
Space Gray: current leader, all my current Macs are Space Gray since 2016. I like it. It’s closer to my original Titanium PowerBook, and was great since I was tired of Silver/Default. It’s a little dull, tbh, but I liked it more than Silver which I was tired of.
Silver: I had this for every MacBook from 2006 to 2016, so I’m still finding myself tired of it. Wears great, no arguments—but for me, it makes me feel like it’s 2008 again, and I’d like to move forward.
Starlight: Look, you can love this all you want, but to me it doesn’t read as gold—it reads as “Silver but the white point is off” or “Silver with a slight tint so it won’t match silver things while still basically being silver”.
Which brings us to Midnight.
I can not emphasize how fantastic this color is. It’s the black MacBook I never knew I fully wanted…but BETTER, because the blue has depth and texture, and shifts in the light in fantastic ways. I hope they do more dark colors in this treatment, it’s such a compelling modern updated way to have a ‘colorful’ laptop.
It’s the best looking design I’ve ever seen for a laptop from Apple, and I have been here a long time—I have literally seen them all, back to the PowerBook 100 series.
In Midnight this joins a very short list of Apple laptops, like the black MacBook, and the clamshell iBooks, and my beloved original Titanium PowerBook, for pure uniqueness and gorgeousness.
If you haven’t seen it in person, you don’t know, because it can’t actually be captured in video well. You have to be there.
Now. The fingerprints.
I’m pretty OCD about electronics. I try not to be, and I work at it, but I get it. And I knew as soon as I saw pics online that this would be an issue. I was nervous waiting for my MBA.
It’s great. It turns out I needed…an Apple Polishing Cloth!
I kid. I have one now, but mostly I use microfiber cloths I had already bought in the past.
It shows fingerprints, I agree. Then I clean it. My experience so far is that they come off immediately every time, and that it’s just not that big a deal. It’s also kind of good for me—helps me work on my OCD by relaxing into it.
Some people buy it and can’t deal. I get that. That’s what the 2 week return period is for.
I’d urge folks to find out for themselves, though. Because if my girlfriend hadn’t bought it for me, I might have wussed out and chosen Space Gray without even giving it a try. And I can tell you, that would have been a mistake for me.
It’s honestly such an incredible color, I’m dealing with it. And if that’s not an Apple experience, I don’t know what is!
Yes, I’m a very lucky man.
She choose it because she knows me, and she got advice from a good tech friend as well. Her analysis, and mine, of the colors runs like this:
Space Gray: current leader, all my current Macs are Space Gray since 2016. I like it. It’s closer to my original Titanium PowerBook, and was great since I was tired of Silver/Default. It’s a little dull, tbh, but I liked it more than Silver which I was tired of.
Silver: I had this for every MacBook from 2006 to 2016, so I’m still finding myself tired of it. Wears great, no arguments—but for me, it makes me feel like it’s 2008 again, and I’d like to move forward.
Starlight: Look, you can love this all you want, but to me it doesn’t read as gold—it reads as “Silver but the white point is off” or “Silver with a slight tint so it won’t match silver things while still basically being silver”.
Which brings us to Midnight.
I can not emphasize how fantastic this color is. It’s the black MacBook I never knew I fully wanted…but BETTER, because the blue has depth and texture, and shifts in the light in fantastic ways. I hope they do more dark colors in this treatment, it’s such a compelling modern updated way to have a ‘colorful’ laptop.
It’s the best looking design I’ve ever seen for a laptop from Apple, and I have been here a long time—I have literally seen them all, back to the PowerBook 100 series.
In Midnight this joins a very short list of Apple laptops, like the black MacBook, and the clamshell iBooks, and my beloved original Titanium PowerBook, for pure uniqueness and gorgeousness.
If you haven’t seen it in person, you don’t know, because it can’t actually be captured in video well. You have to be there.
Now. The fingerprints.
I’m pretty OCD about electronics. I try not to be, and I work at it, but I get it. And I knew as soon as I saw pics online that this would be an issue. I was nervous waiting for my MBA.
It’s great. It turns out I needed…an Apple Polishing Cloth!
I kid. I have one now, but mostly I use microfiber cloths I had already bought in the past.
It shows fingerprints, I agree. Then I clean it. My experience so far is that they come off immediately every time, and that it’s just not that big a deal. It’s also kind of good for me—helps me work on my OCD by relaxing into it.
Some people buy it and can’t deal. I get that. That’s what the 2 week return period is for.
I’d urge folks to find out for themselves, though. Because if my girlfriend hadn’t bought it for me, I might have wussed out and chosen Space Gray without even giving it a try. And I can tell you, that would have been a mistake for me.
It’s honestly such an incredible color, I’m dealing with it. And if that’s not an Apple experience, I don’t know what is!
