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Would you want a whitish color?

  • Yes

    Votes: 27 61.4%
  • No

    Votes: 13 29.5%
  • Maybe, depending on dirt resistance

    Votes: 4 9.1%

  • Total voters
    44

retta283

Suspended
Jun 8, 2018
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I would totally buy one, but I don't think it's realistic because it's impossible to create anodized white aluminum. There are other ways to achieve a white-ish color but I don't expect Apple to. It's really too bad because a nice white computer that will not discolor over time would be incredible. Have always loved white but it never ages well in plastics.
 
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Sheepish-Lord

macrumors 68030
Original poster
Oct 13, 2021
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I would totally buy one, but I don't think it's realistic because it's impossible to create anodized white aluminum. There are other ways to achieve a white-ish color but I don't expect Apple to. It's really too bad because a nice white computer that will not discolor over time would be incredible. Have always loved white but it never ages well in plastics.
Why is it impossible?
 

Saturn007

macrumors 68000
Jul 18, 2010
1,593
1,480
Hope they do the diverse iMac-type colors for the next round of MacBook Airs. Those renderings last year looked spiffy — and fun.
 
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TinaBelcher

macrumors 65816
Jul 23, 2017
1,256
747
Yes! It breaks my heart that I didn't jump on the Apple train until that white model was discontinued.
I was first introduced to Apple in summer 2008. It was at my old internship, where they used that very old Mac Pro with a cheap monitor. I enjoyed Apple so much, that I ended up buying an iMac but wanted a laptop, too. So when I went into the store in early 2010 and looked for that beautiful white MacBook I saw the silver aluminum with black keys as we know of today, and I was heartbroken. The employees told me "oh, they don't make that white one anymore" I was devasted.
 

AppleFanatic10

macrumors 68030
Nov 2, 2010
2,833
326
Hawthorne, CA
Nope. I remember when I had the white version of the regular MacBook, it would crack on the sides and bottom. Don't want to go through that again.
 

MacDaddyPanda

macrumors 6502a
Dec 28, 2018
985
1,150
Murica
So basically they'd have to paint it if we wanted a pure white color on aluminum. Or powder coat. That'd probably get expensive.
 
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