Depending on your age, you may remember Apple’s colorful iBook, from 1999, or Sony’s Vaio E and C Series (2010 and 2011, respectively). Laptops nowadays aren’t that colorful, but you can challenge the grayscale Establishment with a bit of digging.
Rose (or Gold)
You may argue that both colors aren’t synonyms, and I definitely agree. However, tech companies have been announcing gadgets with an undeniably yellowish hue and calling them “rose”, while also launching devices that have a borderline copper color but are named “gold” anyway. So I’ll consider both terms equivalent for the sake of argument here.
One such example is Apple’s MacBook Air line. The model powered by the M1 processor comes in a “gold” paint job, which is rose gold. If you go for the newer one, with the M2 CPU, you get a properly gold option—called “Starlight”.
Bright Pink
If gold or rose is too serious for your taste, perhaps a more lively hue of pink is a good option. If you get yourself a few Barbie-themed items in 2023, a laptop with this color will fit in nicely with the rest of the gang.
Currently, the best option is to get a Razer Blade 14 with the Quartz paint job. You should hurry up, though: as of January 2024, this model is out of stock everywhere other than on the manufacturer’s site—but you can take the opportunity to take a look at other Razer products in the Quartz line.
Green
The Acer Aspire Vero actually comes in three color options: green, gray, and blue. They’re all “green”, though, in a sense: the laptop’s body is made from recycled plastic, and there are a bunch of eco-friendly features, like VeroSense, a battery management app that promises to improve energy efficiency.
Iridescent
The LG Gram Style is listed as a boring “white”, which doesn’t do even a tiny bit of justice to its actual paint job. The laptop’s body reflects light in various colors depending on the angle—you can better understand the effect on the LG’s site 360-degree view. It displays yellow, lilac, blue, and green hues, and is likely to turn some heads.
Blue
With a price tag of over $1,300, the HP Spectre X360 is as blue as the collars of its target audience are white. For less than a third of its price, you can get an (also) blue IdeaPad Slim 3, by Lenovo.
Purple (or Lilac)
If you’re looking to use a gaming laptop at work, you may want to steer clear of more flashy models. If attracting attention isn’t an issue for you, though, you may consider getting the computer in an effusive color as well.
That’s exactly what Dell offers with its purple G15. I’d personally call the lid hue “lilac”, but Dell’s marketing team probably knows it better. The laptop has a “mint green” finish on the rear protrusion (Dell calls this “thermal shelf”), creating a color combination that will look familiar if you’re a fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
White
White laptops were fairly common a few years ago, before gray and black became dominant. If you miss those times, take a look at the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14. The 2023 model has the dot matrix lid, whilst the 2024 version uses a more discrete “Slash Lighting”, as the manufacturer calls it. All of them, though, have white paint jobs available.
Red
If you really want to make a statement through your laptop’s color, there’s no better way to do that than buying a red model. There’s a high chance that you’ll be the only person in the room (or in the building) whose computer has this hue.
This HP Pavilion model helps you reach that goal without breaking the bank, with a $469 asking price for maxed-out specs. Unfortunately, “maxed-out” in this case means a low-end Celeron processor. Your laptop will be an attention grabber for its looks, not for its speed.
Fans of colorful laptops may feel underserved these days, considering virtually all announcements give “you can have it in any color, so long as it’s black (or gray)” vibes. Luckily, there are still people fighting back against this trend.
If even the options showcased in this article aren’t enough for you, an alternative may be looking for older models. Take the HP Spectre Folio as an example: it has a unique format, a unique brown color, and a unique leather finish. However, the series hasn’t seen a single launch since its inception, in 2019.
If you’d rather choose your next laptop for its specs, but still miss having more color options, consider purchasing a protective case or applying a custom skin to it. This way, you won’t be limited to the hues the manufacturer decided on offering.
