Rumor: Apple to launch 12-inch MacBook Air in 2015 with iPhone-inspired colors

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  • Reply 21 of 168
    gtrgtr Posts: 3,231member
    We had a Seinfeld quote earlier, which makes me think of "Morning Mist™".

    ETA: I would Love a Product RED one, though. I'm a sucker for red metallic—you should see my kitchen.

    U2 Charity Red and Carbon Fiber.
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  • Reply 22 of 168
    dunksdunks Posts: 1,254member

    Personally I'd like to see a return of the bright anodised colours like the burnt orange and cobalt blue previously used in the iPod lineup.

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  • Reply 23 of 168
    gtr wrote: »
    We had a Seinfeld quote earlier, which makes me think of "Morning Mist™".

    ETA: I would Love a Product RED one, though. I'm a sucker for red metallic—you should see my kitchen.

    U2 Charity Red and Carbon Fiber.

    That's what Product RED is.
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  • Reply 24 of 168

    Having looked at the 5c in person, I can say that Apple definitely knows better than me. I thought the Blue one was the only one that looked good and maybe the Green one. But I must say that in person even the Yellow looks amazing.

     

    Apple knows what colours look good and I know whatever they select will look great!

     

    But if I do buy a new MBP, I'd still love to get the current colour.

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  • Reply 25 of 168
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BestKeptSecret View Post

     

    Apple knows what colours look good and I know whatever they select will look great!


     

    I'd like to buy a transparent one. I’m sure with the LED backlighting of both the LCD and the keyboard, it'd look gorgeous.

     

     

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    Originally Posted by paxman View Post



    A gold MBA or MBP (shudder). The definition of tacky. Space gray sound nice, though.



    I'd say gaudy.

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  • Reply 26 of 168
    wizard69wizard69 Posts: 13,377member
    Rumor : 2017 Macbook Pro Retina will have better processor ....

    You have got to be kidding!!!
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  • Reply 27 of 168
    wizard69wizard69 Posts: 13,377member
    My problem is wear resistance. Alternative finishes are great as long as they hold up well. As to gold, I suspect that they mean gold colored as opposed to a real gold plating. I'd like to see them use the TiN coatings used in the machine tool cutter industry as such a finish ought to hold up very well. Space gray would be nice too, as long as it is again durable.

    I'm actually shocked at the resistance to colors in this thread. Apple could choose a poor color that just looks out of place but I would tend to believe they have self control and would choose from a pleasing set of colors.
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  • Reply 28 of 168
    why 12"?

    13" too big and 11" too small?? Body & colors aside, i don't understand the sizing at all.

    Oh, and maybe Apple should go back to the colors of the toilet seat iBooks. They were humble, minimalist and modest, right?? :)
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  • Reply 29 of 168
    mariomario Posts: 349member
    Are they going to put white bezel around the screen to completely ruin it too?
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  • Reply 30 of 168
    Excellent idea.

    A Mac to match your iPhone.
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  • Reply 31 of 168
    relicrelic Posts: 4,735member
    prokip wrote: »
    Hot Pink ... yeah, my wife would love one. She takes her 11" Air everywhere!!

    I have a pink one, though it's not hot pink, ColorWare, I always get my new MacBook Air painted.
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  • Reply 32 of 168
    Marvinmarvin Posts: 15,551moderator
    paxman wrote: »
    A gold MBA or MBP (shudder). The definition of tacky. Space gray sound nice, though.

    It would just be the champagne gold color of the iPhone not bling gold:

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    I'm not a fan of the space grey iPhone, I preferred the original black version:

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    I like the current MBP color for use in a laptop and is close to space grey already:

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    I don't know why they call it space grey either, space is black. Space is in fact about as black as you can get given that it's black due to a complete absence of light reflecting off anything. Moon grey would be more appropriate.

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    The moon is grey, the space next to it is black.
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  • Reply 33 of 168
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    Originally Posted by Marvin View Post





    I don't know why they call it space grey either, space is black. Space is in fact about as black as you can get given that it's black due to a complete absence of light reflecting off anything. Moon grey would be more appropriate.



    The moon is grey, the space next to it is black.

    Space is not ‘black’. In fact it is filled with the 2,7 K radiation from the Big Bang. You can’t see it, but it is effulgent. Maybe that’s what they meant by ‘space gray’.

     

    Now, why is space black? If the universe in infinite, wherever you look you should see a star, no? :)

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  • Reply 34 of 168
    [quote name="Marvin" url="/t/182240/rumor-apple-to-launch-12-inch-macbook-air-in-2015-with-iphone-inspired-colors#post_2596708"]I don't know why they call it space grey either, space is black. Space is in fact about as black as you can get given that it's black due to a complete absence of light reflecting off anything. Moon grey would be more appropriate.[/QUOTE]

    Or beige…


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  • Reply 35 of 168
    Originally Posted by Marvin View Post


     

    A space grey iPhone modded with a silver body instead of the stupid white face that normally goes along with it… man, I’d like that.

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  • Reply 36 of 168
    Marvinmarvin Posts: 15,551moderator
    solipsismx wrote: »
    Marvin wrote: »
    I don't know why they call it space grey either, space is black. Space is in fact about as black as you can get given that it's black due to a complete absence of light reflecting off anything. Moon grey would be more appropriate.

    Or beige…

    It depends on what we're calling 'space'. To arrive at beige, scientists studied "the colour of light emitted by 200,000 galaxies and have combined them to produce the colour":

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6487622/The-universe-is-beige.html

    If I said what color is a parking space and you park a red car in it and say it's red, that's not the color of the space. A parking space is grey as it's concrete. I suppose that could be the space they meant rather than outer space:

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    Parking space grey.
    eauvive wrote:
    Space is not ‘black’. In fact it is filled with the 2,7 K radiation from the Big Bang. You can’t see it, but it is effulgent. Maybe that’s what they meant by ‘space gray’.

    Now, why is space black? If the universe in infinite, wherever you look you should see a star, no? :)

    This is like the phrase 'if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound'? The light emitted from distant objects in space is so weak that human eyes can't detect it, only powerful telescopes and sensors with high sensitivity.

    If we are judging color by the perception of the human eye (which is a pretty good idea when describing objects whose color is also determined by the human eye), I'd say its should be space black.

    As for space being infinite, if that was the case and not filled with rocks but illuminating objects, I'd still expect a great deal of blackness because of the time it takes to form the distant objects, the density of the clusters and the strength of the illumination.
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  • Reply 37 of 168
    Marvin wrote: »
    It depends on what we're calling 'space'. To arrive at beige, scientists studied "the colour of light emitted by 200,000 galaxies and have combined them to produce the colour":

    I understand but when I think of space I think of everything in space. If one were to say the empty space between space that would mean a different thing to me.
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  • Reply 38 of 168
    Originally Posted by SolipsismX View Post

    I understand but when I think of space I think of everything in space. If one were to say the empty space between space that would mean a different thing to me.

     

    “Not into space… into the space between spaces…”

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  • Reply 39 of 168
    I can't help but think that a 12-inch would replace the "11-inch", since that is already listed as 11.6", why would Apple make a model that is just 0.4" bigger?
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  • Reply 40 of 168
    arbiter8 wrote: »
    I can't help but think that a 12-inch would replace the "11-inch", since that is already listed as 11.6", why would Apple make a model that is just 0.4" bigger?

    They already have a 13" MBP that has no HDD or ODD any more so it's gotten very thin and light. Once the MBA goes Retina there will be even less reason to have a 13" in both sizes. That tells me that getting rid of both MBA sizes and replacing them with a 12" MBA would make the most sense.
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