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This is why my favorite Mac is the 1999 Power Mac G3 (Blue & White). It's the only fun colorful New World Mac before they went all boring "professional" muted colors with the G4s to cater to the same people who demanded the setting to turn the "stop light" window controls and Aqua blues to grey too.

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> who demanded the setting to turn the "stop light" window controls and Aqua blues to grey

It's possible I just tuned this out and never noticed the stop lights going away, but I'm running the latest beta of Big Sur while typing this and the stop lights are definitely back, if so!


I believe parent was talking about the setting to turn them grey — that’s still present even in Big Sur, if you pick the grey color as your accent color from the appearance options.


He meant the option to change them from the colors to gray. Colors were always the default.


At the _very_ beginning it was just colors. The color/grey setting was added in Public Beta: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/09/macos-x-beta/4/




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