@atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa @caseyliss My cost savings guess on this new laptop is colorful plastic cases. It would serve a few purposes. I would expect that is much cheaper long term and making it only in colorful colors would probably exclude it from most business purchases while be popular with the younger crowd.
Apple hates color though, so you are probably right, we will get multiple silver M1 case laptops with the slightest splash of color.