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My wife and I cannot decide on a color. Need a neutral system to decide to save our marriage.
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Sounds like you could benefit from marriage counseling …
Choose your hard…
1. Let her choose
2. Choose from the colors she likes
3. Let chance decide
4. Insist on adding a skin or cover if you don’t like the color in real life
5. … (let the MacRumors forum members decide with a poll) 🤣 or a random stranger for that matter
6. … pay someone to choose for you
The AR viewing option looks really helpful to decide what looks good with how you decorated the room.
Love the pointlessness of this thread. It made me register and post my first post.
1. Let her choose
2. Choose from the colors she likes
3. Let chance decide
4. Insist on adding a skin or cover if you don’t like the color in real life
5. … (let the MacRumors forum members decide with a poll) 🤣 or a random stranger for that matter
6. … pay someone to choose for you
The AR viewing option looks really helpful to decide what looks good with how you decorated the room.
Love the pointlessness of this thread. It made me register and post my first post.
Quite an easy issue to solve. Please let her pick the color. All the best to both of you.
sorry, but the problem you are having is obviously not about colour or shade.
its how you both are perceiving these colours.
its clear from how the two words you use to group these two sets of colours.
cool can be and is used to refer to colours yes, but red is often grouped in cool colours.
likewise you group yellow as a warmer colour. yes, but, yellow is not often thought to be a warmer colour.
since its a bedroom, you might want to
1 re-group your collective thoughts using the dichotomy of:
quiet colour and loud colour.
2 then its likely you will both want a quiet colour.
3 then re-see the available iMac palette in the context of those two groups.
grouping things in a way that makes sense to what you need to achieve results in a new way to solve the problem.
another dichotomy would be foreground colour or background colour. meaning do you want the Mac to standout, or, blend in. another one would be: do you want the computer to be seen like a piece of furniture or seen as wall hanging?
you will both come to at least see one colour that you both can like and accept and love, as a quiet and nice colour for a bedroom.
all colour perception is relative. no two people and no two cultures see colour in the same way.
the real problem with the iMac is that you need to pay extra for some colours (because of added features that you might not need.).
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I’m going to guess one of you wants a cooler/warmer iMac color to match the overall color scheme of the bedroom.
(And I’m not going to make any assumptions about which one of you that is.)
If one is you is trying to match the iMac’s color with the bedroom’s color, then I agree whoever is doing that. If this is very specifically for the bedroom, keep that in mind when choosing the iMac’s color.
(And I’m not going to make any assumptions about which one of you that is.)
If one is you is trying to match the iMac’s color with the bedroom’s color, then I agree whoever is doing that. If this is very specifically for the bedroom, keep that in mind when choosing the iMac’s color.
I don’t know if you’re serious or not but I agree. Why does he have to compromise? Does he not deserve to see everyday the color he wants?
OP will surely come back to this thread once the divorce papers have been filed.
OP should be kicked out of the bedroom or the house because of this dangerous thinking.
His wife has already given him 3 choices...
straight women tend to care more about design and fashion than straight men (tend to, just generalizing here, i’m assuming that’s the point theyre trying to make)
get one you both don’t like so you’re both unhappy and can bond over being unhappy about the boring silver iMac you got
Actually, there can be cool and warm tones of any color. Like, deep red is warm, but a lighter red that is closer to pink could be perceived as cool.
I'm not interested enough in this topic to go check whether OP and his wife have characterized the tones of the iMac colors correctly. If I were buying an iMac, I'd just go with the boring silver, so I don't have to worry about colors crashing with other things in the house.
My Mother did not drive a car or even have a license but she always got to pick the color of the car.
THIS...Exactly! Both parties need to compromise and both parties deserve to be happy. As many have said here, you more than likely have much bigger issues then the color of a computer. Good Luck!
Wow, I can't imagine this being something that I would fight over with my spouse. Sure, I may have some colours I prefer more, but I sure am not going to fight to the death over that. My spouse loves the gold colour. I don't. But, if we were to have a home iMac and he really wanted some variation of gold, whatever, have at it. I don't care.
If either of you can agree to accept the fate of whatever a randomized generator provides, then go with that. For example:
1. You can say choose heads or tails. When coin is flipped and heads come out, then x person gets to decide.
2. Or, you can each put into a random generator equal number of colors that each wants. For instance, wife: blue and green; husband: red and yellow. Then, let random generator pick which one and both will accept the fate.
3. Or, if there is another expensive item in the house that needs to be bought, one person gets to choose the color of iMac and the other person gets to buy the other expensive item or whatever.
There are so many creative ways all the way to "I don't give an eff.". LOL ;-)
