Have you ever noticed that most laptops today seem to come in a colour palette that would make a zebra feel adventurous? Black, silver, maybe a daring shade of grey if the designer was feeling particularly cheeky. It’s as if the entire laptop industry got together and decided the world doesn’t need colour—thank you very much.

Myth: The neutral tones are sophisticated and professional. Ah, yes, the myth of sophistication. Apparently, walking into a meeting with a laptop that’s anything but drab is akin to showing up wearing a chicken suit. But let’s get one thing straight: having a colour other than slate doesn’t mean you’re running a circus from a tent in your backyard. Sometimes a pop of colour is just refreshing—like a lime in your gin and tonic, not a rubber nose on your boss.

Dispelled: Bright colours are immature. Who decided this? The same panel of experts who banned pineapple on pizza, probably. Imagine judging someone’s professionalism by the shade of their laptop. It’s like deciding the quality of a book by the font it’s printed in, or the utility of a Swiss Army knife by how shiny it is. You’d think with all the emphasis on ‘personal expression’ in tech these days, there’d be room for more than fifty shades of bland.

Remember the days of funky mobile phones that looked like they’d fallen out of a bag of jelly beans? Back when ‘fun’ and ‘function’ cohabited. It was a time when a device didn’t just serve a purpose; it made a statement. Now, laptops look like they all went to the same finishing school run by an uptight interior designer. Heaven forbid your laptop expresses any personality—someone might mistake you for a creative thinker.

Maybe it’s time to demand more from our laptop hues. Let’s challenge this monochrome monotony and root for a world where a laptop can be as colourful as its owner’s ingenuity. After all, if our choice of clothing can make a statement, why not our gadgets? Until we see that change, I guess we’re stuck living in a world where the average laptop is about as exciting as a tax return.