Neo Color Remorse ?

[ElPaso]

I'm surprised seeing so many comments here saying the indigo color is hard to see at night - the keyboard I mean.

It is. That's one of the MBN's negative features. A backlit keyboard would have been nice. Nevertheless, it's still an awesome little computer. I'm curious, do you find the keyboard on the indigo to be easy to see?

 

[Sensamic]

It is. That's one of the MBN's negative features. A backlit keyboard would have been nice. Nevertheless, it's still an awesome little computer. I'm curious, do you find the keyboard on the indigo to be easy to see?

I've only seen it in "daylight" at the store.

 

[tonmischa]

It is. That's one of the MBN's negative features

I can confirm. Before I chose Citrus, I went to the Apple Store to look at the keyboard in person. (My eyes are not very good, so I wanted to make sure, I could live without a backlight.)
I liked the Indigo color, but the dark-blue letters on the light-blue keys were a dealbreaker for me.
Of all 4 colors, the letter visibility on the Indigo was the worst.

After using the Citrus now for 2 months, I have encountered only one situation, where I missed the backlight. (I'm a two-finger typist.)

 

[Mousse]

That is sad, and honestly wild to read. As a millennial, I definitely remember the whole class going to the computer lab to learn typing as early as 3rd grade.

I learned how to type in high school using a manual typewriter. No dainty touch typing, because unless you give the keys a good whack, it won't imprint. It took me years to break the 2 space after a period/full stop habit.

Considering our complete reliance on computers now, that girly reputation of learning to type didn't age so well.

Lots of thing from my time didn't age well. Girls didn't take shop class and boys take home economics class. I very much regret not taking home economics class in school as I had to learn how to sew and cook on my own. Those aren't girly tasks. They're important life's skills.

Why are you having a laptop in the first place then? How does the color matter?

You must be the minority. If colors didn't matter we'd all still have beige computers.

 

[Harddrive]

Have a friend that works at Best Buy and he said it is hard to sell a laptop without backlit keyboard with the exception of the Neo they can not keep those in stock especially citrus.

 

[bapegg]

Lots of thing from my time didn't age well. Girls didn't take shop class and boys take home economics class. I very much regret not taking home economics class in school as I had to learn how to sew and cook on my own. Those aren't girly tasks. They're important life's skills.

I graduated high school in 1990. Typing and senior home making were required classes for everyone in order to graduate.

Color îs definitely a personal preference. I have the Indigo Neo and I do wish the keys were either lighter or the letters were white. I personally do not care for the Citrus once I saw it in person. Citrus is too much yellow and reminds me of a dirty diaper. I have not seen the Blush in person yet so can't comment.

 

[Parowdy]

I learned how to type in high school using a manual typewriter. No dainty touch typing, because unless you give the keys a good whack, it won't imprint. It took me years to break the 2 space after a period/full stop habit.

Lots of thing from my time didn't age well. Girls didn't take shop class and boys take home economics class. I very much regret not taking home economics class in school as I had to learn how to sew and cook on my own. Those aren't girly tasks. They're important life's skills.

You must be the minority. If colors didn't matter we'd all still have beige computers.

You apparently didn’t understand me.
I was asking how color matters to the OP, who said they use their MacBook in clamshell mode all the time since it also has a screen too small for them.
So, no. I’m not in any minority in this regard. I’m just asking a very obvious question. I too am in favor of more colorful laptops (especially the pro’s), but I don’t see the need for colorful Mac mini replacements.
Very much agree with the rest of your comment though.

 

[fatTribble]

Typing was not offered in my elementary school and in high school it was considered girls classes might be due to an age difference between you and I.

I remember there being only a few other guys in my high school typing class.
We had a brand new computer class at the time so people were just starting to see the need.

 

[Dirk Pieters]

You apparently didn’t understand me.
I was asking how color matters to the OP, who said they use their MacBook in clamshell mode all the time since it also has a screen too small for them.
So, no. I’m not in any minority in this regard. I’m just asking a very obvious question. I too am in favor of more colorful laptops (especially the pro’s), but I don’t see the need for colorful Mac mini replacements.
Very much agree with the rest of your comment though.

I use my MBA 15" M4 in clamshell mode most of the time too. It's connected to 2 Apple Studio Displays. Some days I visit customers so I need that laptop. It's also nice to have the ability to work outside every now and then.

Even a clamshelled laptop still sits on the desk, so why not pick the color you like best?

 

[Dirk Pieters]

We were in The Hague about a month ago and visited the Apple Store. It was the first time I got to see the Indigo and Blush colours in real life. So far, most other (non Apple) stores only had silver and citrus on display.

I like the Indigo best with "best" meaning "of the 3 colours available it is the one I dislike most". I also felt the Indigo keyboard was a bit too dark.

Not interested in a Neo, not while it comes with 8gb at least. If I had to pick one, I'd just go silver. The frame and keyboard combo on the silver one is the best for me.

 

[4sallypat]

I graduated high school in 1990. Typing and senior home making were required classes for everyone in order to graduate.

Color îs definitely a personal preference. I have the Indigo Neo and I do wish the keys were either lighter or the letters were white. I personally do not care for the Citrus once I saw it in person. Citrus is too much yellow and reminds me of a dirty diaper. I have not seen the Blush in person yet so can't comment.

Same - graduated HS 1982.

Learned how to type on a manual typewriter.

Muscle memory has done well over 4 decades of computing from my very first Apple IIe with floppy drives!

Love my Indigo Neo!

 

[Parowdy]

I use my MBA 15" M4 in clamshell mode most of the time too. It's connected to 2 Apple Studio Displays. Some days I visit customers so I need that laptop. It's also nice to have the ability to work outside every now and then.

Even a clamshelled laptop still sits on the desk, so why not pick the color you like best?

I totally get that. But when you physically can not use a 13” screen and don’t ever take the Mac anywhere I question if silver isn’t the best option already. It’s sleek and quite, unlike the Citrus which screams even when put away.
To each their own, I just wanted to know how the silver impacts OP’s life when he doesn’t use it as a laptop like, ever.

 

[lookn4wifi]

I learned how to type in high school using a manual typewriter. No dainty touch typing, because unless you give the keys a good whack, it won't imprint. It took me years to break the 2 space after a period/full stop habit.

I took typing in HS too. Enter word processors and computers and I continued to double-space after punctuation so it would "look right". Wasn't too long ago I started making a conscious effort to single-space after punctuation.

 

[Harddrive]

I think there are few of us that never had any computer training in high school mainly because it was not offered in the 70's heck the car dealership that I bought my first car was still using ledgers it was not till the 80's that you saw the salesman and parts counter with computers.

 

[ElPaso]

I think there are few of us that never had any computer training in high school mainly because it was not offered in the 70's heck the car dealership that I bought my first car was still using ledgers it was not till the 80's that you saw the salesman and parts counter with computers.

It was in my school. I graduated in 1971, and we were on phone modems communicating with the School District, using tape. It was definitely pre-floppy, pre personal pc -- I don't remember too much about it, except that we wrote simple programs on the school district's mainframe and stored them on tape locally.

 

[boppin]

A question: don't you take a look at the devices in the store before buying them?

Back when we bought new devices—the Air and the Lenovo—we examined them thoroughly. And I’m very happy with my choice of Midnight.

 

[SevenTheGamingKitty]

Why? You could also learn touch typing, something that I thought everyone was taught from elementary school.
You really aren’t supposed to spend that much time looking at the keys.

Macs are designed to make everything easy for everyone, and making it hard to see the keys for people who might need to look at them isn't particularly good

 

[Harddrive]

I bet those touch typists have to look at the screen keys on an iPad without a magic keyboard sorry could not help myself.

 

[capamac]

I wouldn't return a Mac just coz I changed my opinion of the color; just roll with it.

When I decided to buy a 2020 M1 Air, I originally leaned toward the gold color, coz my prior two Macs had been plain silver.

But once I was at the store, I changed my mind to silver. Two reasons why: 1) In public, silver I figured would attract less unwanted attention. Gold coloration might be more tempting to thieves I imagined, while silver is more plain-Jane and even looks a bit like grey plastic, blends in better. 2) For color work, silver is more neutral than the warmer gold tones; under the assumption that having gold visible while doing color work might skew my eye's sense of neutral color balance a bit.

 

[RUGERMAN]

Typing was not offered in my elementary school and in high school it was considered girls classes might be due to an age difference between you and I.

you're right when I was in HS no guys that I knew took typing, I broke my ankle at the start of the summer and so with nothing else to do taught my self to type. not glad for the pain but happy for the ability to type.

 

[Timpetus]

Mario Teaches Typing (and a few other educational typing games) made sure I was a great touch typist from a young age. I did have to break myself of the two space habit I got from my mom, took a few months. I think I'd still get indigo if I bought myself a Neo, part of the point of them to me is the fun colors! Keyboard visibility doesn't matter that much to me.

 

[boswald]

Mario Teaches Typing (and a few other educational typing games) made sure I was a great touch typist from a young age. I did have to break myself of the two space habit I got from my mom, took a few months. I think I'd still get indigo if I bought myself a Neo, part of the point of them to me is the fun colors! Keyboard visibility doesn't matter that much to me.

Oh wow, Mario Teaches Typing takes me way back too.

 

[lotzosushi]

I've always used all black Macbooks but I got the citrus Neo and I love how crazy neon it is. If you're past your return window just get a dBrand skin or case.

 

[Purrific]

I love my Blush Neo - the color is actually very subtle to my mind. My other half has the Citrus and I absolutely love that color - I think it is the nicest one! So bright and refreshing. The Indigo also looked gorgeous in store. Silver is a classic. I don't think you can go wrong really. My previous MBP was "Space" gray - AKA GRAY - so I am glad to have a splash of color finally.

I wish Apple would lose the mindset that color is unprofessional - it seems like a dinosaur-type attitude from the 1950s. I have been wanting a color MBP for years.

(I use my Neo for everything, including translating and proofreading work on Parallels, and it has not skipped a beat - I have spent the last several days trying to resist the upgrade panic caused by Apple raising their prices on everything by a large amount).

 

[Harddrive]

Maybe Apple should send out a survey and see what colors the public wants I can understand why they limit colors it would kill their overhead if they stocked them all. That also explains why some colors are dropped the sales numbers make the judgement.