Apple USB Keyboard Model M2452 - What Color Is It?

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Apple USB Keyboard Model M2452 - What Color Is It?

I want to determine what color that my 1998 Apple USB Keyboard is. Several colors were made of this model keyboard but do not know of a way to see which color that it is by the serial number or some other way to identify it. There were bondi blue, graphite, strawberry, blueberry, grape, lime and tangerine. Mine looks sort of blue/green so it could be bondi blue, blueberry or lime depending on the lighting and due to the fading of the color over the years.

Any ideas out there? Would be great if someone knew how to decode the serial number or if there was some hint hidden on the keyboard.

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Jul 19, 2024 4:06 PM

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Allan Jones

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Jul 19, 2024 10:10 PM in response to pierangler

Mine looks sort of blue/green...

Then it is Bondi Blue. This is an image of a Bondi Blue original iMac from the MacTracker database:

Bondi Beach in Australia was the inspiration with its blue-green waters.

The MacTracker database usually has the order numbers for Apple products that can uniquely identify variants like color, but it lists no such codes for the M2452.

Blueberry is distinctly a rich blue and Lime is one serious shade of green. Again from the MacTracker database:

Blueberry is at the very bottom and Lime is upper right. The other three were called Grape, Strawberry, and Tangerine.

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Jan Hedlund

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Jul 20, 2024 10:57 AM in response to pierangler

My Bondi Blue keyboard has the same 1998 copyright, but an 8 as the first digit. The Bondi Blue iMac was discontinued in the beginning of 1999. Your keyboard could be a late production (maybe a spare part). So, no direct help here. On the other hand, yes, the photos appear to show the blue-green Bondi colour.

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Jan Hedlund

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Jul 20, 2024 9:37 AM in response to pierangler

Also, if the first digit of the serial number, after the initial letter(s), is an 8 (the manufacturing year = 1998), the probability is greater that it is a Bondi Blue keyboard (although one should perhaps not rule out the possibility that some of the keyboards for the multi-coloured models introduced 1999 may have been made already 1998).

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pierangler Author

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Jul 20, 2024 10:38 AM in response to Allan Jones

Thank you Allan. I think this is a bondi blue. But, it looks different in different lighting situations.

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pierangler Author

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Jul 20, 2024 10:36 AM in response to Jan Hedlund

Thank you for your reply. Here’s a photo of the serial number and another of the copyright on the base of the keyboard. 1998 copyright and 9 is the first number.

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