Is it time for a black coloured iBook?
Now that the entire PB line is all aluminum, I think it would be cool to refresh the iBook line by making it all black. The whole white thing is still cool for the iMac/eMac but with portability, comes dirt. Nothing hides dirt like black.
Obviously a major change in colour also demands a change in processor (G4).
Would you buy a black iBook over a white one?
Obviously a major change in colour also demands a change in processor (G4).
Would you buy a black iBook over a white one?
Comments
Originally posted by satchmo
Would you buy a black iBook over a white one?
No. I wouldn't buy either. I'd stick with PB. If you are asking is it time for a black PB, sure, I'd say yes.
Originally posted by Matsu
It can't look any worse than the disgusting opaque white.
Oooh yeah it can.
Puce iBook!
Originally posted by Matsu
It can't look any worse than the disgusting opaque white.
Speaking as someone who stares at an ugly black laptop all day long, I can say that the white iBook is visually very clean and attractive.
It could look FAR worse. Lima bean green for example.
The iBooks look just fine.
Originally posted by Matsu
It can't look any worse than the disgusting opaque white.
In one thread you want cheap Macs. In this thread you want black Macs. Sounds like you want a cheap black computer. Can I interest you in a Dell?
The transluscent plastics OTOH, had a very key, but subtly different coloration, and they looked beautiful with white, and would probably look great with a fine metallic interior paint as well, either a graphite or silver, or perhaps even a gun metal grey. Any color in Apple's cheap shiny opaque will probably look like crap.
The only line missing from this obvious standard is the displays. But, if you are not making metallic cases for displays, the current form is probably the next best thing (even though it is getting a little long in the tooth and the vertical stripes are SO PowerMac G4
I haven't looked at the opaque iBooks, but I own a 500mhz 2001 iBook and I think it looks great. A lot of people had issues with scratches etc but mine still looks great (I might be a little anal in looking after it).
Although I don't have much vision for that sort of stuff, I think a black iBook wouldn't look as good as the white. And I don't think Apple will have a black iBook with all the other consumer/edu products remaining white, and, lets face it, a black iMac would look like a bucket full of a$$holes!!!
Originally posted by Yevgeny
In one thread you want cheap Macs. In this thread you want black Macs. Sounds like you want a cheap black computer. Can I interest you in a Dell?
the neat thing about apple laptops is that you can recognize them a mile away including in movies, ads, product placement can't help with a "black" like everyone else junk mobile. you may not like it but it follows the theme of other apple clean machines.
keep it clean, keep it, i trust apple it has the best designs and like they say go to dell.
/reprises stoned discussion of colours from many years ago. Drugs are bad, kids.
Originally posted by Jellytussle
howabout a colour blacker than black, yeah, right? I mean really blacker than black. Then you could make the big Apple black to lighten the whole thing up! wow, that'd be so cool.
/reprises stoned discussion of colours from many years ago. Drugs are bad, kids.
So "thinking different" campain doesn't reflect in the black black . then how is apple different, than all those other black obnoxious boxes. they look different to reflect the idea of "think different" i don't want to be the same as all those windblows laptops
Originally posted by Jellytussle
howabout a colour blacker than black, yeah, right? I mean really blacker than black.
Yea, but than we might have a blackhole situation on our hands. It would actually make the enitre room darker because light wouldn't be able to escape it. (I don't even want to think about the problems this would create for the display and backlit keybord
Originally posted by Cory Bauer
When other computer companies start making white computers, Apple will stop using white.
I'm actually SHOCKED beyond words that there aren't a gob of white glossy Gateway, HP and Dell computers out there. As usual, however, they'll come roaring into it on the tail-end of the trend, just as Apple as said "okay, been a few years...time to move on".
Hell, some of those PC tower cases are still sporting the translucent, fruit-colored plastic panels...and bragging about it as though it's a cutting edge, hipper-than-hip thing!
If Apple changed to lavender burlap designs tomorrow, within 6-9 months, we'd see pastel-shaded PCs in "natural cloth" exteriors. You know. I know it. The entire world knows it.
Still, iBooks are nice.