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Are you keeping your Midnight Air? Returning or Swapping it?

  • yes - keeping it

    Votes: 48 65.8%
  • no - returning it

    Votes: 9 12.3%
  • no- getting another color love old school Space Gray and Silver

    Votes: 11 15.1%
  • no - getting starlight

    Votes: 5 6.8%

  • Total voters
    73

kp98077

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Have been noticing midnight MBAs M2 are often now available in the stores, but not the silver or Space Gray. Wondering where people have settled, the guy also told me a lot of people are returning their midnights, so where do you stand?
 
I was dead set on midnight until I saw all of the posts about the fingerprints situation. That would drive me insane, so I went with starlight and it shows even less than my space gray MacBooks and I honestly couldn't be happier with starlight and glad I found one in stock at my local Best Buy on sale.
 
I returned my midnight after a week. I realized I was more OCD than I thought, I was constantly thinking about how I wanted to hold it a certain way to avoid getting fingerprints on it, and I was constantly wiping it down when fingerprints appeared. That plus worries about potential paint chipping down the line (not that I saw any during my week) caused me to return it for space grey. I definitely am happy with space grey, but gotta be honest, when I see a clean midnight in pictures I get jealous, it looks so sleek. I wish those fingerprints didn't bother me as much as they did, stupid OCD brain :(
 
I tried Midnight with 10-core GPU first, but decided I could make do with the base model and got Starlight and was much happier with that color. Did not end up keeping any M2 Air in the end but if I was to get another, Starlight would be my #1 choice, followed by space grey, silver, then Midnight.
 
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I was dead set on midnight until I saw all of the posts about the fingerprints situation. That would drive me insane, so I went with starlight and it shows even less than my space gray MacBooks and I honestly couldn't be happier with starlight and glad I found one in stock at my local Best Buy on sale.
It does look great in starlight!!
 
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I had midnight and loved it, but like other post, everything I picked it up, i found myself planning on how I was going to clean it! Very beautiful color however. I ended up with silver which I like it almost looks white.
 
I had midnight and loved it, but like other post, everything I picked it up, i found myself planning on how I was going to clean it! Very beautiful color however. I ended up with silver which I like it almost looks white.

I agree with this - I am looking at getting a matte white dbrand skin my my MBP, I did this on my space gray Air and it looked good, I think with silver it would look even better.
 
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I had a base midnight and decided to upgrade to 16/512 and used that as a reason to switch to Starlight. I'm very glad I did.
My office is 99.9% windows machines, and I noticed that my midnight looked a lot like Dells and other machines. My new machine stands out in Starlight. The lack of prints is just gravy on top.
 
Midnight is the best color they’ve made for a laptop in years. I posted a big review separately. I’ve had it two weeks tomorrow, and haven’t had a serious problem with fingerprints—each week has been about half as bothered as I was the week before. I’m very glad I didn’t read reactions first, I might have missed out on this. It’s the best.
 
My office is 99.9% windows machines, and I noticed that my midnight looked a lot like Dells and other machines.

I’m Mac-centric, so for me a selling point is that it doesn’t look exactly like just about every other Mac laptop I’ve been using since 2006. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
I have a 16/512 Midnight but am swapping for space gray. I'll have to sell it since my return window passed. Nothing to do with fingerprints or scuffing, but the blue color that pops out during the day or in fluorescent light. The dark/slate color at night or with warmer light is so awesome it makes me want to keep this color...until I see the blue again in the daytime.

Space gray 16/512 is on order through Apple but I'd jump on any retail space gray that had 16GB ram and at least 512GB storage. They're just not for sale anywhere. It's always midnight.
 
I have a 16/512 Midnight but am swapping for space gray. I'll have to sell it since my return window passed. Nothing to do with fingerprints or scuffing, but the blue color that pops out during the day or in fluorescent light. The dark/slate color at night or with warmer light is so awesome it makes me want to keep this color...until I see the blue again in the daytime.

Space gray 16/512 is on order through Apple but I'd jump on any retail space gray that had 16GB ram and at least 512GB storage. They're just not for sale anywhere. It's always midnight.
Should have gone to apple store and asked for an extension on the return window. thats what I did with my midnight because I didn't want to be without a laptop for a couple weeks while waiting for my new order to arrive. They just made a note for my account and I can keep my midnight until my replacement arrives. May still be worth asking
 
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Nothing to do with fingerprints or scuffing, but the blue color that pops out during the day or in fluorescent light. The dark/slate color at night or with warmer light is so awesome it makes me want to keep this color...until I see the blue again in the daytime.

that makes sense to me. I *like* this chameleon like quality, but yes, if you really didn't like it when it turns blue, it happens enough that it would get aggravating.
 
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Should have gone to apple store and asked for an extension on the return window. thats what I did with my midnight because I didn't want to be without a laptop for a couple weeks while waiting for my new order to arrive. They just made a note for my account and I can keep my midnight until my replacement arrives. May still be worth asking
Oh snap! It was an online order so I just called them and they allowed for a 1-time extended return window until the space gray is delivered. Thanks for the great tip.

that makes sense to me. I *like* this chameleon like quality, but yes, if you really didn't like it when it turns blue, it happens enough that it would get aggravating.
It is a really nice quality. I just wish I liked the blue more. Sometimes it looks a bit like a brighter, sportier blue, which is nice. Most of the time it's a darker navy blue that reminds me of some Samsung tablet or phone from a while back.
 
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Oh snap! It was an online order so I just called them and they allowed for a 1-time extended return window until the space gray is delivered. Thanks for the great tip.


It is a really nice quality. I just wish I liked the blue more. Sometimes it looks a bit like a brighter, sportier blue, which is nice. Most of the time it's a darker navy blue that reminds me of some Samsung tablet or phone from a while back.
Yup, mine was an online order as well. I’m glad I was able to help!
 
Nothing to do with fingerprints or scuffing, but the blue color that pops out during the day or in fluorescent light. The dark/slate color at night or with warmer light is so awesome it makes me want to keep this color...until I see the blue again in the daytime.
Ha, I have the exact opposite issue w the color. I absolutely love when the blue pops & wish it would more often.

Fingerprints are definitely an issue, but they don't bother me enough to change to any of the other colors, which I like less than Midnight. (If there were a gold similar to the Retina MacBook, or maybe a nice rose color, I'd probably jump.)
 
Apple stores are getting stock of everything, they just go fast when they come in.

I would never get midnight after seeing it in the store, but that's just me. All the display models were already showing slight signs of chipping around the charging ports.
 
Apple stores are getting stock of everything, they just go fast when they come in.

I would never get midnight after seeing it in the store, but that's just me. All the display models were already showing slight signs of chipping around the charging ports.
Watching the apple store employees constantly trying to keep the midnights clean is quite funny...
 
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