Oh Apple, Where has all the color gone?

So,
I love apple. I just have one minor complaint.

Remember they days of the Clamshell and the iMac with every color under the fruit of the loom rainbow?
I love that. It spoke to me about Apple, that they were a company who didnt care about what others thought, Let OUR COMPUTERS BE PINK-WHO CARES WHAT THEY SHALL SAY! I love the color. It made your computer show who you are. (Plus it was the only computer in my favorite color-orange. warm fuzzy feelings)
But since then the color has slowly faded. The design of the Macs are still amazing, but the 'OH MY GOSH WOW YOURE COMPUTER IS WHAT COLOR?!' factor that really set them apart. Imagine if the iMac g3 only came in graphite, where would apple be now? Im sure it would still have been a hit, but im sure it wouldnt have sold as much as it did.
Now a days you walk into an apple store, all the Macs are white, black, or a beigeish color. Theyre still amazingly unique, but all the spice and pizzaz is fading away.
So Apple: You should return to your roots, and bring back the color that played a big part in where you are today!.
Im not sayin they need to go dye every iMac out there,
just some little things, at least make it an option.
I think its just something they should think about.


What do you think?


Tanner.

I think computers are very serious business, that come in precisely the asthetically pleasing form that they are in now. As I gaze upon my sleek white Macbook and avert my eyes from the ugly Dell sitting a foot away from it.

Now if you want color, there are several nicely colored iPods, both in Nano and Shuffle format that you can enjoy. My wife has one in Turqouise that's teh sexay!

Ooh I'd love to have a MacBook in crazy hot pink, but hey! Life is not perfect. And as above, it's still a beauty. White beauty, think Snow White.

I have boring colours for my electronics though. Black iPod, white MacBook, white N73 phone (which I do not recommend, and am keeping it only because I'm still waiting for the iPhone to make its way to Asia, if it ever does :O).

Maybe I should get those protective stickers thingum for my Mac...

i would LOVE the new imacs in the anodized colors like the ipods. that would be KILLER.

mmmmmm I was aaamazed when the first colored mac's came out. thats all i wanted. i was youngish though...

I'm not really a colour person; Grey, White & Black are enough for me (I think the Graphite iMac was the best one ). Saying that; the red nano, and orange shuffle look sweet (strange that I like different products in different colours; I thought the original nanos looked better in black but the full size iPods look better in white).

I loved those coloured imacs. Our school is selling them though and i hope theyll let me buy one!!


edit: Their blue, btw

Tanner31593 said:

Now a days you walk into an apple store, all the Macs are white, black, or a beigeish color.

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Which Mac is beige?

If you don't mind spending a bit extra, check out the services over at http://www.colorwarepc.com/

They can make a computer almost any color you can think of!

Isnt there companies that sell painted macs?? i thought i saw it in Mac addict or Macllfe.....

i would LOVE the new imacs in the anodized colors like the ipods. that would be KILLER.

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It would be great if they could do something like that for the new iMacs and MBP's. I would trade up tomorrow! It's funny to think a company like Apple has gone to very few plain colors while a company like Dell is getting more flashy and colorful.

If you don't mind spending a bit extra, check out the services over at http://www.colorwarepc.com/

They can make a computer almost any color you can think of!

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I would probably consider that if it didn't mean voiding my warranty.

Tanner31593 said:

So Apple: You should return to your roots, and bring back the color that played a big part in where you are today!.....

Tanner.

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I'm not sure I would consider something done by Apple 8 (or whenever the colored iMacs were out...I was a PC user at the time :/) years ago, "returning to their roots."


then again, im a brushed aluminium and glass kinda guy, so the new ones are the sexiest thing i've ever seen...to me. but to each his own.


EDIT: I also have a black 1st gen Nano which I wouldn't trade for all the colorful rounded off new nanos money could buy.

Well Dell now have coloured Laptops................well be honest, they had to do something with their product didn't they

I saw coloured covers for Mac Books here in OZ but I'm not paying $100 for a plastic cover coloured or not

MUDCRABS said:

Well Dell now have coloured Laptops................well be honest, they had to do something with their product didn't they

I saw coloured covers for Mac Books here in OZ but I'm not paying $100 for a plastic cover coloured or not

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Yeah, saw that commercial. Thought it was amusing. :x I would like different colors, but I'm fine with the way things are right now.

i hate color, flat out... i think my shapeshifter theme and icons show it best (besides the itunes icon that since the update I havent had time to candybar in ;D )

MUDCRABS said:

Well Dell now have coloured Laptops................well be honest, they had to do something with their product didn't they

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now now, lets be kind here... if i were to buy a pre-built windowz box again, it would definetely be a dell. will i though? probably not...

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Eric559 said:

Which Mac is beige?

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Well, i went into the apple store and this Mac mini looked kinda beigeish, but it was sitting right under a sunny window, so maybe it wasnt.

ste6168 said:

i hate color, flat out... i think my shapeshifter theme and icons show it best (besides the itunes icon that since the update I havent had time to candybar in ;D )

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You're a disgruntled color-blind person, aren't you?!

I had a colorblind band teacher.
Funny when he wore hot pink shirts and hes like 65.

ste6168 said:

i hate color, flat out... i think my shapeshifter theme and icons show it best (besides the itunes icon that since the update I havent had time to candybar in ;D )

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Oh man, no offense, but that just gives me a headache

Nabooly said:

Oh man, no offense, but that just gives me a headache

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no offense taken, to each his own. After my logic board died and i got a new one i thought hey whatever, ill go without shapeshifter... that lasted about a week and i NEEDED to go back. I love the look of it