It’s a MacBook Air, an entry-level Mac for the young. You can always get the Pro.
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Prosser: Next MacBook Air Could Come in Colors Similar to iMac
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lol no.
do you not remember how this was unveiled? it was certainly not marketed "for the young"...
Saw it all over University. I believe what I see.
Seemed to start with the iPhone XR. People loved the colors and apple has had huge success with the iPhone 11 and 12 in fun bright colors. This is a rumor I really hope is true would love to have some fun back into laptops.
I just read an article that cars with a bland or neutral paint color deprecated faster than those with a more “bold” color. People like fun things and are willing to pay for them.
It’s crazy how people lap up everything Apple does. Lazy greedy apple wants to prolong this dated design in dire need of a complete refresh. So what do they do simply introduce new colors on the dated design. The colors are absolutely childish. No way is a laptop with a m1 processor 8 or 16gb a laptop for the young, that’s what the average chrome books and $199-$499 laptops are for. At this point most of those look more professional than this rumored new color scheme. Then to add salt in the wound the Macbook Pros don’t come in gold. Hoping that sales are low for this new color scheme if it does come out.
Huh? Where do any of these rumors say they're merely slapping new colors on the the existing chassis?
The legitimate complaint is they don’t play enough country music today. To those that agree, check out Sturgill Simpson.
Same here, the tangerine was definitely the pick of them. I even managed to pick one up second hand years later. It is not up to much these days, but I'm sure I'll eventually feel like playing Escape Velocity again, and it's all set up for that
... in the meantime, it is a great display piece!The styling these days just isn't anything like as exciting. The colours would be cool, but the styling is lacking. Of course it is really efficient, 1/6 the weight of those original iBooks, and all that, but something has been lost along the way. The G4 iMacs managed to continue it, to the point that the 20" one had to have the base weighted down in order to support the screen. The epitome of form over function. Glad to have been through those times
The bezels will be white but Not That Big (like iMac) iMac Bezels are Big Beacuse fans,chipset,speakers and... are there
And university is just one angle of life. It’s a popular consumer computer in plenty spaces. And universities are not necessarily just for the young either.
Gold, which professional displays that again? On their tools?
For most of the industry professional level means a certain level of support and service. Of course, Apple doesn't offer a professional tier of support to consumers. Their professional support costs $6000 (minimum) and is intended strictly for businesses.
The differentiator for Apple between their consumer and pro level devices is usually performance. Whilst single core performance is important it is hardly the most important thing for a workload of compilation and virtual machines. Can you get your work done on an m1 MBA? Absolutely. I do the same sort of work on a 2014 MBP 15" (I'm holding out for the Apple Silicon MBP 16"). But it will not perform as well as a kitted out Precision 7750 or ThinkPad P17. I mean, M1 only has 16GB RAM, tops! And 16B of RAM in 2021 is not what one would expect from a high end professional device. Workstations like the two I mentioned can be kitted out with up to 128GB.
To take your bike metaphor; we know that a bmx bike is not as good a tool for road racing as a road racing bike.
I program almost entirely inside the terminal, with vim, so I appreciate what you're saying, which I understand as "do more with less", but sometimes using bloated programs and workflows is unavoidable -- after all, one has to work with other people, and they might not take the same interest in software quality.
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No doubt. And elsewhere - as those on the move a lot appreciated it being nearly half the weight of the Pro, less bulky, and with a less trouble-prone drive. Apple's first SSD.
Where is the space grey option? Thanks, Tim Cook, I get all the 'pride thing' you are trying to force on us, but at least give us the option of something classy or neutral, space grey should be an option too.
Your comment is the most constructive and most intelligent on this thread.
Nobody is forcing anyone to buy a colored iMac. Heck, they could never buy any iMac and their life would progress just fine.
Live, and let live. You and I are all free to buy whatever we want. Apple is free to sell whatever they want.
Don’t think so, but surely some may think it woud be a nicer experience to use Magic Keyboard with trackpad on MacOS and its App versions...
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Probably saved for the inevitable Pro machines. That said, in the history of Apple products Space Gray is new.
So may things wrong with this post. So let me address some of this:
1. The "pride thing" you see is all in your head and speaks towards your hangups.
These iMac colors harken back to the original iMac colors from the late '90s.
The fact that Tim happens to be gay and that the pride flag is a rainbow is happy and harmless coincidence.
Hell, the original Apple apple was a rainbow.
Look up Apple's history on YouTube for more information and it will be evident the two are not (necessarily) connected.
2. The only way to even attempt to interpret this as "pride" is if you're looking at or buying all the machines together, displayed as such for effect.
The average customer buys a single machine, in a single, preferred color. No?
3. How EXACTLY is putting something up for sale "forcing" it on someone?
And even if it was, having more than one color is even more freedom-of-choice-based than "forcing" us to buy the one color offered.
4. Last I checked, silver is a neutral color, unless every Mac since the Power Mac G4s and the first intel Mac are not neutral.
Apparently every high-end painting or piece of art in museums, every fashion item, vehicle, etc is not classy if it exceeds the grayscale palette in your mind.
5. I'm genuinely curious about the perception that you are getting the "pride thing" forced on you (it very much IS NOT). I understand that it makes conservatives unhappy and even downright furious, but hey, they said the same thing regarding women's rights, interracial couples, black or brown folks in your neighborhoods, etc.
LGBT folks, like all other Americans, are citizens of the US.
They vote, pay their taxes, serve their country, and hey, even run trillion-dollar tech companies that provide jobs and great products to enhance everyone's (including conservative's) lives.
Maybe it's time to let the old ways die.
I love the look of these in the render, it is exactly how Apple should bring colour to the devices, but i know full well Apple will make it look fugly like the iMacs with pastel colours and white bezels.
I think he's really looking for the 'Whites Only' color option, with the 'Neurotic Straight' setting enabled - no American corporation should be able to tell him what computer he needs to accept into his home and expose his family to. 🙄Where are you forced again?
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