Apple's iBook successor may sport fashionable hues

AppleInsider ^ | 04/11/2006 | Kasper Jade

[Panerai]

When Apple Computer introduces its new line of Intel-based consumer notebooks this spring, the company may once again offer buyers a fashionable option it phased out of its iMac product line nearly half a decade ago: colored enclosures.

Like the Cupertino company's current PowerPC-based line of iBook G4 notebooks, the upcoming Intel "MacBooks" have been described by the few people who claim to have seen them as "fashionably clad in iMac white."

iMac white is the glossy shade Apple introduced on the face and under-compartment of its original iMac in 1998. Eventually, the popularity of the iMac amongst consumers drove the company to wrap almost all of its consumer products, including the iBook and iPod, in the same cleanly shade.

Still, some would argue that it wasn't the white, but the bondi blue risk Apple took with the remainder of the original iMac enclosure that paved the way for the iBook, iPod and one of the most astonishing comeback stories in corporate history.

When Apple chief executive Steve Jobs pulled the sheet from atop the original iMac on the afternoon of May 6th, 1998, many were expecting to see another beige box with sharp corners. Instead they were treaded to a bulbous, but friendly looking all-in-one Mac, wrapped in white and translucent blue plastics that forever changed the landscape of the personal computer industry.

While rival PC manufacturers struggled to duplicate the appeal of the bondi blue iMac in their own products -- albeit to little success -- Apple lead its colored iMac revolution through seven revisions and thirteen color variations, all the while selling millions of units.

[JerseyHighlander]

Maybe they'll reintroduce the flower power Imac:

[Shimmer128]

We switched. Son's first one was a indigo iMac. Now we have a Mini and an upgraded to G4 PowerMac. I love Macs now. I'd love another colored Mac.
And btw, it's "Snow" (Mac white color)

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Yeah.
Change the color.
That'll work.

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When Apple Computer introduces its new line of Intel-based consumer notebooks this spring, the company may once again offer buyers a fashionable option it phased out of its iMac product line nearly half a decade ago: colored enclosures.

Unnnnngh!!! I had hope I wouldn't be reading this for a month at least. I ordered my Grand Daughter a new 14" iBook on Tuesday. It's not the iNtel part that bothers me, it's the colors that any young girl would die for...

[LK44-40]

Yeah. Change the color. That'll work.

Yea, this is a must have! Right up there with those hip pieces of plastic you can snap over your cell phone to make it look really, really, cool. Oh, yea, and downloadable ring-tones. I buy a new one ~every~ day, if I have anything leftover after playing my new state lottery!

I wish I could write more, but I've got some work to do...I want to download some of the neat new "skins" that make the interface for Windows Media Player and ITunes ~extra~ hip.

Gosh, wow-wee, I am sure glad that I am not an old person!!! Their lives were so empty without these things. [Need I say it, /sarcasm]