Colorful MacBook Airs are cool and all, but let me buy a black one

Green Macbook Air Render (Image credit: Jon Prosser / RendesByIan)

It's looking likely the next MacBook Air will come in some funky colors, but what if you're boring like me?

I've nothing against colorful computers, except the potential for Apple overstretching itself. I love the look of the green and blue concepts that are knocking around today and I'm sure there will be a ton of them in your local coffee shop. But not in front of me. I'm old, boring, and just not hip enough to pull it off. I need Space Gray otherwise I'll look like I'm trying to be hip.

I am far from hip.

The renders Jon Prosser shared earlier today do show something that looks a little like a cross between the Silver and Space Gray colors we've seen Apple offer its portables in of late and I could presumably get away with one of those. I'm still no fan of the claimed white display bezels because, frankly, it makes the whole shebang look like it's either escaped from the 1980s or, worse, a Microsoft store. Maybe it'll grow on me. I doubt it.

Macbook Air Render Stacked (Image credit: Jon Prosser / RendesByIan)

For now, I'll just hope that's one of the things Prosser has gotten wrong this time around. He did say that there was some artistic license employed in terms of those bezels so who knows, the day might be saved yet. But given the love-it-or-hate-it look of the front of the new 24-inch iMac, my hopes aren't high.

But then again, I'm old and not at all hip. Maybe I'm just not cool enough for a MacBook Air anymore. I'll accept that – so long as nobody screws up that Apple silicon 16-inch MacBook Pro the rumors have been promising me for the last few months!

Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too.

Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.