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New Sky Blue Color

MegaBlue said:
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Pictures honestly don’t do it justice. Every photo I see (even mine above) make it look more blue than it is, or more silver than it is.

I highly recommend looking at it in person. When you see it one in real life, it’s a color that does look very silvery, but it also isn’t going to be mistaken for being regular silver. It’s got a very clear blue tint and the lighting changes its intensity.
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I don't know. I have it and in most lighting it looks silver to me, and I could see many people mistaking it for regular silver.
 
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Miss Terri said:
Reply tip: Everyone is not you. It's a 6-hour round trip by car for me to the nearest Apple Store. Then, as pksv mentions, I'd have to purposely scratch a few of their brand new laptops. Doesn't seem like a great plan.
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Mama always used to tell me I could do anything I put my mind to.
 
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Masterman said:
Anybody have some comparison pictures between it and Starlight?

I’m torn between midnight and starlight but am interested to see the difference between Starlight and blue as I haven’t had chance to see in person just yet
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Starlight on the left, Sky Blue on the right

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It's the best color out there, now waiting for a Banana yellow.

Wish I had this color option for the M4 Pro.
 
Miss Terri said:
I have a question: It's obvious that on the Midnight color, there is some sort of coating (perhaps anodizing?) that you can scratch through to reveal the silver beneath. Say around the ports.

Okay, but I'm not interested in the Midnight anyway; I'm deciding between Silver and Sky Blue.

1) Is the Sky Blue (and Starlight) an anodized finish? I presume they are, so any scratches would show the base aluminum silver color.

2) What about Silver? Is that also anodized or coated? I suppose it must be. But perhaps people say it doesn't scratch as easily only because if you do scratch it, you also scratch through to the base aluminum underneath, but the scratch matches the Silver finish more.

I guess another way to put my question is..... the Silver is also a coated finish, right? Just with a similar color raw material underneath? So Sky Blue and Starlight are also coated (like the silver) but just scratches will be more obvious because they scratch through to raw aluminum color and not their own color.

Reason I'm asking is thinking about any "gotchas" to ordering Sky Blue. I've always had silver (once I could no longer get my preferred white) so never had to think about it.
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All of them are anodized.
 
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Steve121178 said:
I still think silver is the most striking and impressive. But no harm in people having a choice and choosing something different.
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It's true, the longest-lasting freshness looks especially good with MBP and contrasting keyboard. From the perspective of the object itself it looks simply the best.
The thing is that the color is not only for admiring it by yourself and others. Silver is the most shiny color, in bright light reflections from the trackpad area make it completely unusable. Very, very distracting. Same thing goes in a very low light, this time around it reflects screen light.
 
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pksv said:
It's true, the longest-lasting freshness looks especially good with MBP and contrasting keyboard. From the perspective of the object itself it looks simply the best.
The thing is that the color is not only for admiring it by yourself and others. Silver is the most shiny color, in bright light reflections from the trackpad area make it completely unusable. Very, very distracting. Same thing goes in a very low light, this time around it reflects screen light.
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And that's why the Space Gray was the best.
 
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