Apple makes iPods in a whole rainbow of colors, but the MacBook Pros only come in silver! I'm sick of blending in with all the other silver MacBook Pros out there.

Don’t worry. If owning the best laptop ever made isn’t show-offy enough on its own, we can think of several ways you can make your MacBook Pro stand out in a crowd. The simplest option is a colored case such as Speck’s SeeThru or SeeThru Satin ($24.97 and up, www.speckproducts.com) or InCase’s Hardshell Case ($49.95, www.goincase.com).

Or you could slap a design on your laptop by purchasing an artistically designed skin from companies like GelaSkins ($29.95, www.gelaskins.com), iamhuman ($30 and up, www.iamhumannow.com), or MusicSkins ($30, www.musicskins.com). If those aren’t enough choices, just search the Web for “Mac laptop skins.”

How gorgeous (or maybe garish?) is this MacBook Pro we custom-designed on colorwarepc.com?

Of course, you could go all-out. ColorWare ($499, www.colorwarepc.com) will take any Apple product--Mac, iPhone, iPod, mouse, whatever--and custom paint it in a staggeringly wide variety of colors. For a MacBook Pro, you can choose unique colors for the top half, the bottom half, the edges of your screen, the palm rest, the hinge, and even the Apple logo.

If you just want to bling out your silver laptop, you can have your MacBook Pro laser-etched with any design that you choose, thanks to companies like ETCHamac ($25 to $75, www.etchamac.com).