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I miss Apple using color. I know they abandoned it because they want their machines to melt away and just have the screen left, but they abandoned fun in the pr

I miss Apple using color. I know they abandoned it because they want their machines to melt away and just have the screen left, but they abandoned fun in the process. Computers don't just have to be windows into a virtual space.

Eric_WVGG 6y ago
It wasn’t that long ago that you could buy a “rose gold” 12" Macbook, in fact I bought one last spring for my gf on closeout. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see this sort of thing come back once ARM Macs are here.
- ageitgey 6y ago
  The new MacBook Air comes in gold.
  - tasogare 6y ago
    Tuhao Gold[1] is not exactly fun either. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuhao https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuhao
- deleted 6y ago
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FreakyT 6y ago
Personally, what I miss is translucency! I'd really like to see translucent electronics make a comeback, it was always neat to see the inner workings.
- gugagore 6y ago
  You might enjoy this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PfsndsihY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PfsndsihY It's about electronic devices designed to be used in prison, so they're intentionally made transparent.
  - FreakyT 6y ago
    Huh, I never heard of clear prison devices! Super cool!
  - sukilot 6y ago
    It's hard to enjoy tech made for USA's cruelly overlong prison sentences.
- soylentcola 6y ago
  Not that there aren't plenty of eyesores among them, but there are loads of computer cases with huge tempered glass windows (and I've even seen a decent number of them made of clear acrylic panels). I guess that's more transparency than translucency, but it's easy to put together a workstation with visible internals. You don't even have to load it up with rainbow LEDs if you don't want it looking like some hot rodder's ground effects ;)
  - thaumasiotes 6y ago
    Buying a case without contents, this problem is bizarrely ubiquitous: http://chainsawsuit.com/tag/case-mod/ http://chainsawsuit.com/tag/case-mod/
- ksec 6y ago
  Yes. When I first saw the AirPod Pic [1], I thought there was going to be a translucent version. Not only that, I wish 20 years after G4 Cube we could figure out way for translucent casing not turn yellow after a few years. [1] https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5dbe2597b4d505000678c672/960x0.jpg?fit=scale https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5dbe2597b4d...
  - nonesuchluck 6y ago
    By and large, translucent electronics made today wouldn't be as visually interesting as, say, a clear Game Boy. Ultrabooks and smartphones are about 90% battery, there's not much to see besides a flat boring slab. But those AirPods are gorgeous, I would throw mine in a lake and buy those in a heartbeat.
x87678r 6y ago
Fashions always changing. Give it a few years and we'll be back to color, whilst Windows laptops will all by silver/grey/white.
- sf_sugar_daddy 6y ago
  I dunno there's still like the Surface laptops which come in cooler colors already
kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
Everybody copied their design style and it was no longer distinctive. I still have an iMac blueberry flavored iron.
Lammy 6y ago
This is why my favorite Mac is the 1999 Power Mac G3 (Blue & White). It's the only fun colorful New World Mac before they went all boring "professional" muted colors with the G4s to cater to the same people who demanded the setting to turn the "stop light" window controls and Aqua blues to grey too. "We think we've got the most incredible access story in the business, and you know what it's called? Let's get the video up here — it's called 'a door'!" https://youtu.be/pH-6Tek9yF4?t=2435 https://youtu.be/pH-6Tek9yF4?t=2435
- jen20 6y ago
  > who demanded the setting to turn the "stop light" window controls and Aqua blues to grey It's possible I just tuned this out and never noticed the stop lights going away, but I'm running the latest beta of Big Sur while typing this and the stop lights are definitely back, if so!
  - FreakyT 6y ago
    I believe parent was talking about the setting to turn them grey — that’s still present even in Big Sur, if you pick the grey color as your accent color from the appearance options.
  - robertoandred 6y ago
    He meant the option to change them from the colors to gray. Colors were always the default.
    - Lammy 6y ago
      At the _very_ beginning it was just colors. The color/grey setting was added in Public Beta: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/09/macos-x-beta/4/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/09/macos-x-beta/4/

Eric_WVGG 6y ago

It wasn’t that long ago that you could buy a “rose gold” 12" Macbook, in fact I bought one last spring for my gf on closeout. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see this sort of thing come back once ARM Macs are here.

ageitgey 6y ago
The new MacBook Air comes in gold.
- tasogare 6y ago
  Tuhao Gold[1] is not exactly fun either. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuhao https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuhao
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FreakyT 6y ago

Personally, what I miss is translucency! I'd really like to see translucent electronics make a comeback, it was always neat to see the inner workings.

gugagore 6y ago
You might enjoy this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PfsndsihY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PfsndsihY It's about electronic devices designed to be used in prison, so they're intentionally made transparent.
- FreakyT 6y ago
  Huh, I never heard of clear prison devices! Super cool!
- sukilot 6y ago
  It's hard to enjoy tech made for USA's cruelly overlong prison sentences.
soylentcola 6y ago
Not that there aren't plenty of eyesores among them, but there are loads of computer cases with huge tempered glass windows (and I've even seen a decent number of them made of clear acrylic panels). I guess that's more transparency than translucency, but it's easy to put together a workstation with visible internals. You don't even have to load it up with rainbow LEDs if you don't want it looking like some hot rodder's ground effects ;)
- thaumasiotes 6y ago
  Buying a case without contents, this problem is bizarrely ubiquitous: http://chainsawsuit.com/tag/case-mod/ http://chainsawsuit.com/tag/case-mod/
ksec 6y ago
Yes. When I first saw the AirPod Pic [1], I thought there was going to be a translucent version. Not only that, I wish 20 years after G4 Cube we could figure out way for translucent casing not turn yellow after a few years. [1] https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5dbe2597b4d505000678c672/960x0.jpg?fit=scale https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5dbe2597b4d...
- nonesuchluck 6y ago
  By and large, translucent electronics made today wouldn't be as visually interesting as, say, a clear Game Boy. Ultrabooks and smartphones are about 90% battery, there's not much to see besides a flat boring slab. But those AirPods are gorgeous, I would throw mine in a lake and buy those in a heartbeat.

x87678r 6y ago

Fashions always changing. Give it a few years and we'll be back to color, whilst Windows laptops will all by silver/grey/white.

sf_sugar_daddy 6y ago
I dunno there's still like the Surface laptops which come in cooler colors already

kevin_thibedeau 6y ago

Everybody copied their design style and it was no longer distinctive. I still have an iMac blueberry flavored iron.

Lammy 6y ago

This is why my favorite Mac is the 1999 Power Mac G3 (Blue & White). It's the only fun colorful New World Mac before they went all boring "professional" muted colors with the G4s to cater to the same people who demanded the setting to turn the "stop light" window controls and Aqua blues to grey too. "We think we've got the most incredible access story in the business, and you know what it's called? Let's get the video up here — it's called 'a door'!" https://youtu.be/pH-6Tek9yF4?t=2435 https://youtu.be/pH-6Tek9yF4?t=2435

jen20 6y ago
> who demanded the setting to turn the "stop light" window controls and Aqua blues to grey It's possible I just tuned this out and never noticed the stop lights going away, but I'm running the latest beta of Big Sur while typing this and the stop lights are definitely back, if so!
- FreakyT 6y ago
  I believe parent was talking about the setting to turn them grey — that’s still present even in Big Sur, if you pick the grey color as your accent color from the appearance options.
- robertoandred 6y ago
  He meant the option to change them from the colors to gray. Colors were always the default.
  - Lammy 6y ago
    At the _very_ beginning it was just colors. The color/grey setting was added in Public Beta: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/09/macos-x-beta/4/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/09/macos-x-beta/4/