Bring on the Mac minis of different colors
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Mar 29, 2005 at 12:06am
My daughter, Katie, made a suggestion the other day that’s so obvious, I’m surprised I hadn’t already thought of it: make the Mac mini available in different colors. The iPod mini is offered in a half-dozen different hues, so why not the Mac mini?
One of the goals with the diminutive Mac is to bring new users to the Mac platform, namely those who have been drawn to the world of Apple thanks to the iPod. For those who’ve bought the traditional iPod or an iPod shuffle, the Mac mini could still be available in its current white form.
But those who have silver, green, pink, blue, etc., iPod minis might prefer a Mac mini to match. I know my daughter loves the petiteness of the small Mac, but would rather have a blue one. (Sorry, Katie, but you’ll have to live with your aging iBook for a while.)
As for my college-age son, Matt, he doesn’t care what color the Mac mini is, if he could get a $600 Mac that gives him 60 frames per second in Doom III. Some of us are just dreamers.
Personally, if I were going to buy a Mac mini, I’d want a silver or aluminum flavored one to match the look of my Power Mac and PowerBook. However, I realize that Apple wants to keep the aluminum look for its pro systems, which is understandable.
Speaking of which, c’mon Apple, release a keyboard and mouse that matches the aesthetics of my pro desktop. If I’m going to fork out a couple of thousand bucks for a pro system, I’d like peripherals to match. Would it really cost that much more to give pro users a silver/aluminum keyboard and mouse? I don’t think so.
Thoughts? Write me at dsellers@macsimumnews.com
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
