- In a current patent, the Cupertino company explains why it’s never offered a shameful MacBook.
Currently, Apple offers only two colors for its laptops; sidereal grey and silver. A restricted choice that’s found every year on the majority of the brand’s computers. However, internally, the Cupertino firm isn’t limited to these two colors and is considering the possibility of supplying a black version of the MacBook.
Apple has indeed hinted at this at a new patent seen by 9to5mac. As a debut, the apple company explains why it offered black as a color for Macs.
“Boxes for mobile electronics might include an anodized layer that can be dyed in different colors to enhance their aesthetic appeal to consumers. However, some colors are much more difficult to achieve than others,” says Apple. “Attempts by consumer electronics manufacturers to obtain a true black color have failed.
Really, the very best attempts have attained just a dark gray color. Among the challenges in getting a true black color will be that anodized metal can have a relatively high silk finish, which can reflect in a risky manner considerable quantities of visible light. The easy deposit of dye particles in the pores of an anodized coating is inadequate to confer a true black color,” the US company continues.
When the approach is complex, Apple is still working on a technique to acquire a real black for the cubes of its MacBooks. “The engraved anodized surface of the speakers using light trapping characteristics (also known as light absorption features) is effective at consuming nearly all the visible incident light onto them.
In addition, any visible light not absorbed from the trapping elements of this light is diffusely reflected by the light-emitting functions. As a result, the engraved anodized bit is characterized as having a slightly shiny matte finish.
The matte, unspicing finish combined with black-colored particles infused into pores have been able to mask the surface geometries of the outer surface, Apple says, demonstrating that the matter has been seriously researched internally.
Currently, from there to what Apple actually supplies a matte black version of the MacBooks, there’s still a chasm, but it might still materialize one evening, in the near future more or less.
