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John Siracusa

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And the color-coordinated keyboards and feet, like, it's kind of hard to tell in the pictures, because as people point out, like, white balance adjusting of your eyes-wise, you're like, well, all the keyboards are white, aren't they?

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

No, they're not.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

The pink laptop has a pink keyboard.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

The citrus or yellowish citrus laptop has a citrus keyboard.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

It's easier to tell on the Indigo one, because that's very dark, and you can see that it has a darker keyboard, but...

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And also the rubber feet that are on the bottom, they're not black.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

All the rubber feet on the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pros are black.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

These are color coordinated.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

So they match.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

So that's a nice touch.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

That's where some of the money went.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And as Jason Snell points out, the Apple logo on the back of the screen is not a shiny logo, but it's like embossed, like inset.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And the shiny logos, the way those are done, and Apple talks about this a lot in their videos, I believe even for the MacBook Air are...

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

They cut out an Apple logo shape and then they sort of inset like wood inlay a different material.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

That shiny thing is inlaid into there and they have to make it obviously like a wood inlay.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

You have to exactly match the hole to the thing you're putting in the hole.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

So it's seamless.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

So you don't see a gap around any part of it.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Oh my God.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And that's hard to do.