# Apple + Metal = Good thing?

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**Created:** [September 29, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-metal-good-thing/91155 "2003-09-29T19:23:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/apple-metal-good-thing/91155/1 "2003-09-29T19:23:09Z")

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Apple is becoming very metallically oriented - this especially with the new G5s and the new OSX operating system, panther.

Wired notes the change of the apple logo to have a shiney metalic gloss:

[http://www.wired.com/news/images/0,2334,60597-8954,00.html](http://www.wired.com/news/images/0,2334,60597-8954,00.html)

You can also see there fairly clearly the more solid colors of the titlebars in OSX 10.3, dropping the lined look there (which I kind of liked and thought were always trademark of apple).

Plus you have the _brushed metal_ movement with itunes, safari and now with finder. Good? Bad? Cant be all that good if theres already a petition against it:

[http://www.petitiononline.com/mod\_perl/signed.cgi?stopugly](http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?stopugly)

Apparently Jobs has an affinity for aluminum.

Personally, I like the new apple. The brushed metal deal, however, I could live with out. It seems out of place to me. As one petitioner put it “Come on Apple, let’s face it: brushed metal was hip in 1998”

😛