What Color Is This iMac?

Someone should make an art exhibit with Scratch & Sniff fruity iMacs.

Or perhaps use the heat from the CRT and components to activate the smells on the case.  Aroma therapy iMacs!

I don't mind the Gold, Silver, and Space Gray colors Apple is so fond of using nowadays, but what of the wonderfully bright and happy colors of yore? They got close with the iPhone 5c, but many of its five colors just don't appeal to me (I like white the best, as it'll go fine with almost anything, with yellow coming in second).

My favorite semi-modern, colored Apple product is the fourth gen iPod Nano (with the fifth coming second). I wish they hadn't discontinued those colors!

What would've been neat wouyld be if Apple had released the MacBook with 4th gen iPod Nano-like color options. I'd get one for the color alone!

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I agree, the 4th and 5th gen Nanos are my favorite modernish colored product. Thank goodness there's a variety of case options for iPod touch, the colors Apple offers are pretty dull. But black goes with everything, so it works.

ColorWare lets you customize some tech products. They don't have a huge selection, but they have a small handful of Apple products. And one of the colors they offer is TEAL!!!

insaneboy said:

That's not Blue, it's gold!    wait, that's not a picture of a dress...  

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This comment makes insaneboy win the internet^^^

But yes that is most definitely 100% positively an Indigo iMac, Juliet... Graphite is a very distinctly different colour, and the Graphite machines were never made as the firewire-lacking 350Mhz model. These were available initially in Blueberry (often incorrectly referred to as Bondi Blue, which is an entirely different colour available only in the original Rev. A and B. 233mhz iMac trayloaders), and Indigo later on. But yes, there are actually a couple of variations of Indigo I have noticed after having procured a decent sample of various models of Indigo Mac (which is the most common colour found in Australia), with some being a deeper blue whilst others look a little washed out and shallow.

I've also noticed some of the blueberry coloured machines have a milkier looking shell whilst others are clear and vibrant.

This is my Graphite iMac DV SE...



For comparison this is a very early Indigo IMac DV...



Boh pictures taken in the same light.

I wonder if the different variations of Indigo were from different factories, or if it was just subtle differences in plastic batches.  G3 iMacs were built in different places on different continents, I've seen at least:

XA (Apple Elk Grove, CA USA)

RN (LG Mexicali, Mexico)

SG (Apple Singapore)

YM (China - Foxconn?)

PT (Korea, probably LG)

The Cork, Ireland factory may have built iMacs, I'm not sure. Here in the US I mostly see USA and Mexico, occasionally China but those are mostly the low-end ones.

I remember the shock and disappointment my mom had when we opened the family's new Blueberry iMac (333MHz). In Apple's advertising at the time, the blueberry looked darker and less Turquoise than it looked like in real life. Little did I know that within a year or so, the Indigo model would be released, which totally would have been up her street. Oh well. I remember we kind of needed a new computer as the only machine we had before that was a Macintosh LC. That was a huge jump for me, but then I discovered the state of Mac gaming in the late 1990s.

DragonKid said:

I wonder if the different variations of Indigo were from different factories, or if it was just subtle differences in plastic batches.  G3 iMacs were built in different places on different continents, I've seen at least:

XA (Apple Elk Grove, CA USA)

RN (LG Mexicali, Mexico)

SG (Apple Singapore)

YM (China - Foxconn?)

PT (Korea, probably LG)

The Cork, Ireland factory may have built iMacs, I'm not sure. Here in the US I mostly see USA and Mexico, occasionally China but those are mostly the low-end ones.

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The compositions of the plastics themselves do seem to vary greatly from year to year and presumably one place of origin to another. For instance I have found as a rule of thumb, the early 350, 400 and 450Mhz machines in Australia (presumably sourced from CHina and Singapore in most cases) seem to have an inner bezel that is made of a quite tough, pliable plastic that doesnt readily break and maintains a very grey hue. You can repeatedly flip the thumbnail screw covers out and replace them without them breaking for one. The 500mhz and 600mhz machines I have encountered on the other hand, all seem to have inner bezels that deteriorate with age and fade to an ugly yellowed hue that shoes through the translucent exterior, and this plastic tends to be very brittle, with many of the machines I take apart already having cracks forming, some even basically disintegrating as soon as the external case has been taken off. The thumbnail covers in these will in many cases practically turn to dust the moment you try to remove them. Another thing I have noted also is that the Snow machines seem to be prone to having the area around the handles pull out moreso than the earlier machines, and tbh, I cant even say any of the Indigo machines of the late crud iMac era have had this issue so endemically. So yes, there are definitely variations in the composition of the plastics used from one machine to another.

About the ONLY thing I like about my iPhone 5c is where its light blue color is beaming bright Magenta through its purple edgeband protector. Infernal thing's relegated to beach phone status once I get the numbers switched around, making the Droid4 my main line again. Post Graphite Apple colors do nothing for me.

I really wanted to see a Lemonade iMac, NOT having all the colors of the Rainbow available was probably more important to his controlfreakness than the urban legend about his not wanting to make a Lemon Mac. Good cover story though. When life serves you lemons, you make lemonade. When you want Apple to be all your own show, you kill the rainbow  .  .  .

.  .  .  and hide the camouflaged Apple logo on top so as not to offend the Windows browsers.

BTW, Indigo rocks! [] ]'>

Yep, clearly Indido. Graphite looks really different.

Btw, i have a 500 Mhz with an overall scratched case, should I respray it? Most importantly, which colour(s)?

It's not sprayed, buff the bezassus out of it to remove the scratches. You'll have to gauge the coarseness of buffing compound necessary to remove the deepest scratches and work your way down through less aggressive compounds until you give it a glasslike sheen with a very fine rouge on your buffing wheel.