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Apple has a fresh orbit of updatedMacBook Pro notebooks , and while they get a pretty nice inner upgrade courtesy mostly of the newM3 mainframe batting order , the big news show for aesthetes is on the exterior — in addition to the be silver and space grizzly colors , there ’s a novel quad total darkness that is just 🧑 🍳 💋 .
This is a restoration to form for a company whose best - looking Mac is plain still the famous “ BlackBook ” MacBook stick in in 2006 — the original MacBook that took over from the iBook and that get in a good deal of the design speech communication that continues on Mac notebooks to this daylight . The black MacBook was a mat polycarbonate , however , and this novel MacBook Pro is that same aircraft - grade aluminum that we ’ve seen on the past few model , but now in a dark tincture that ’s still plausibly more very dark grey than opprobrious , but a mass nigh than anything we ’ve been able-bodied to get in a Mac for years .
This is celebrated not just because I ’m a depressing grayscale male child who loves to get my accessories in the darkest tint of Shirley Temple I can pull off , but also because Apple has stayed away from using pitch blackness in the mix for many of its products and accessories for at least the past few season now . It trade over to a “ Midnight ” tone in the aluminum Apple Watches and the Watch accessory line a couple propagation ago , and it offers a “ Midnight ” adaptation of the MacBook Air , too . These are dainty — but as the name imply , they ’re also not in reality ignominious : They seem that elbow room in sealed kindling shape , but in actuality there ’s some blue in the mix . Also , those pick up fingerprint like crazy , and Apple went out of its way of life to say the new one has a special treatment that wo n’t make it a fingermark attraction .
Now , I ’m not saying that the “ midnight ” material does n’t look unspoiled ; it does . But I ’m aprofessional , and as a professional I need some way to convey that with the out shell of my MacBook . I realize this sound like I ’m joke , but I ’m actually badly very excited about having an existent Black person ( or very very dark gray ) metal information processing system to convey my distressfulness and competency .
Some might say “ distance gray was enough ! ” but it really was more of a procurator — an acknowledgment that I was n’t to be taken as gently as someone who carries around a silver computer — but it just does n’t have the same gravitational force .
I ’m hoping this means Apple ’s prolonged vacation from black is over and we can stop with the blueshit and get on with our lives . All I know is I put one of these instantly to interchange my 14 - inch M1 Max MacBook Pro and it has nothing to do with needing a more powerful central processing unit .
