My 2007 BlackBook was, I think, my favorite computer of all time. As a college student, it was such a huge upgrade from my previous Sony Vaio (that while beauti

My 2007 BlackBook was, I think, my favorite computer of all time. As a college student, it was such a huge upgrade from my previous Sony Vaio (that while beautiful, quite literally burned/discolored/cooked my upper thigh -- it took almost two years for the area to stop being discolored) and I gladly paid the Black Tax, with the justification that it was really just $50 if you compared it to a CTO price with the same size HDD. But honestly, the color WAS worth the price difference for me. To this day, I think the plastic Black MacBook design is just perfect. I will always love the 12" PowerBook G4, but for me, that black plastic is just timeless in a clean and excellent way. A side-effect of the Black Tax was that the cracked palm wrest issue that impacted a lot of white MacBooks, didn't seem to impact the Black models nearly as much (Apple replaced the top component I believe for people with yellowed or cracked palm wrests). As much as I love my 14" MacBook Pro Max, if I could have it in solid black, I would love it (that or bring back the true rose gold color and give it to the Pro machines, cowards!).