Finally: The Macbook Wheel
posted at 7:45 pm on January 5, 2009 by Allahpundit
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A parody worthy of Apple itself: Simple, elegant, brilliant. Right down to the too-plausible marketing slogan (“The Wheel. Reinvented.”).
I’m going to save my money and wait for the iPhone Wheel. Any e-mail you wouldn’t spend 35 minutes typing isn’t important enough to send anyway.
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
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now I don’t care who you are AP that was funny.
sven10077 on January 5, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Oh crap… Allah has found his true LOVE!
upinak on January 5, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Yet another concept which I seriously think will go from satire in the Onion to actual article in Reuters.
MadisonConservative on January 5, 2009 at 7:50 PM
The reason why allah is saving his pennies.
upinak on January 5, 2009 at 7:54 PM
I need one of these. As you can tell by my posts, I can’t type.
Tommy_G on January 5, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Can I get one of those at work? All I do is dick around anyway.
(shhh, don’t tell my boss)
:)
mjk on January 5, 2009 at 7:58 PM
“It remains to be seen whether this will catch on in business where people use a computer to do actual work and not just d**king around”
HEH.
jcw46 on January 5, 2009 at 7:59 PM
This reminds me of the Star Trek episode where Scotty was trying to talk to the computer…
Very cool.
Now for those of us who spill and drool (Allah), on the keyboard, no more worries. ;)
jerrytbg on January 5, 2009 at 8:06 PM
I’m wondering about whether they’ll allow for third-party development, or dick around like they did with the iPhone.
manwithblackhat on January 5, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Heh heh heh
Bob's Kid on January 5, 2009 at 8:12 PM
“The absinthe will arrive by airmail.”
LOL!
tru2tx on January 5, 2009 at 8:14 PM
“Everything is just a few hundred clicks away”…
I tell ya, the Onion is getting good at this stuff.
JetBoy on January 5, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Ok, as a devout Macgirl, not even I would want a comp with just a wheel….
but then again… if it’s a mac…. =/
ehmygirl on January 5, 2009 at 8:18 PM
“it remains to be seen if the wheel will catch on the business world where people use computers for actual work instead of just dicking around”
Apple – the entire corporate history explained in one sentence
notagool on January 5, 2009 at 8:18 PM
When are they going to develop computers that read your mind? If you want lazy–that would be it; just surgically insert a probe into your mind and presto!
m064404 on January 5, 2009 at 8:19 PM
What happened?
Mason on January 5, 2009 at 8:25 PM
QFT XD
apollyonbob on January 5, 2009 at 8:30 PM
MICHELLE:
Allah wants a wheel next Christmas!!!
FloridaBill on January 5, 2009 at 8:37 PM
………. I hear the Obama administration is going to start the stimulus package by buying a million of these for all the new bureaucrats.
Seven Percent Solution on January 5, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Wish I could’ve seen the rest of them. It went by too fast and pausing obscures the screen too much. All I could make out was “The aardvark knew it was wrong.”
OneGyT on January 5, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Now, if they would just put that wheel on a music player ….. er, wait …
OldEnglish on January 5, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Apple sucks since they gone all corporate and sh*t.
But what else can one do – its the best there is.
Siiiiigh
klickink.wordpress.com on January 5, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Just wait until the touchscreen Macbook arrives! It will feature a touchpad keyboard that you can switch to the screen and then back to keyboard. The complaints about streaks and fingerprints will evaporate because the user never touches the actual screen.
If course, the base/keyboard touchpad will require a bit of power because it will have to be extremely bright. Soon as energy concerns are meet…..
Still, Apple sucks.
klickink.wordpress.com on January 5, 2009 at 9:13 PM
They saved the best line until the end. Perfect.
echosyst on January 5, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Good ‘un. Thanks, AP!
Splashman on January 5, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Ummm the stumbling block is that you’re talking about Mac users.
- The Cat
MirCat on January 5, 2009 at 9:41 PM
“The aardvark asked for a dagger.”
mikeyboss on January 5, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Very funny! I loved the bit at the very end about the Sudoku killer.
TeeDee on January 5, 2009 at 9:46 PM
One of the sentences was “The agile aardvark arrived by airmail.”
LOL
And I loved the guy that said “I’ll buy anything that’s shiny and made by Apple.” That’s about what most of the Apple people are like. Especially when it comes to iPods and the iPhone. There are so many items that are much better and they are better deals, but people still give their money away to Apple.
MobileVideoEngineer on January 5, 2009 at 10:15 PM
They’re working on eliminating that step…instead, the next thing Apple will do will be surgically inserting a probe directly into your wallet. I can just see the marketing slogan for it: “…and gee, no more waiting in line for an actual product. Apple has made it much more efficient this way!”
James on January 5, 2009 at 11:23 PM
…While holding the mouse like a microphone: “com-PUT-er…” HAHAHAHA That Star Trek Movie (IV) was the best!
inviolet on January 5, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Of course, it’s programed using Binary, the language of load lifters…
unclesmrgol on January 6, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Ha ha ha ha ha! Apple sucks!
Ha ha ha ha ha! Apple sucks!
Tzetzes on January 6, 2009 at 1:03 AM
That was very good. I’ll skip the wheel. I am waiting for the giant touch screen where you wave your arms around and throw icons back and forth across the surface. I want to feel like a conductor. :-)
Mallard T. Drake on January 6, 2009 at 3:10 AM
That was so believable. Apple will try anything to suck people into their cult.
Geochelone on January 6, 2009 at 4:28 AM
Meanwhile I am just dicking around and not doing any actual work. Speaking of keyboards I have the Logitech illuminated keyboard and it is absolutely the best keyboard ever designed. That is no joke.
Geochelone on January 6, 2009 at 4:31 AM
I gotta get me one a deese…..
kanda on January 6, 2009 at 7:50 AM
But what if I dick arond a lot, but cant spell?
petefrt on January 6, 2009 at 8:34 AM
“The Abortion Went Well” BWAAAAAAAAA!
sabbott on January 6, 2009 at 8:41 AM
When Apple first appeared on the scene, they tried to own everything computer. The computers were expensive and could only use Apple software. There was no open architecture, so only Apple could make applications. It was computers for dummies, not only because dummies could not use PC’s, but because they would pay Apple all kinds of money for the privilege of using a computer. Sort of like socialism (which Jobs seems to espouse nowadays, go figure) — make ‘em dependent and then soak ‘em. Then Apple went completely right brained appealing to “artists” and “musicians” and all those touchy feely sorts of folks, because they could not compete in the corporate world. Their adherents feel about Apple like they do Obama! Yet their share of the computer market is still miniscule.
Great parody — it was a parody wasn’t it?
Christian Conservative on January 6, 2009 at 10:41 AM
The scrolling commentary and the bylines make ONN very funny, you can re-watch this a few times and pick up something new.
“Screen goes black every 4 seconds to save energy.”
pt on January 6, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Um, there is so many inaccuracies to your statement, its almost shocking.
When Apple first appeared on the scene, back in the mid-late 70’s, their computer ran on BASIC, a computer language invented more than 10 year earlier. Anybody could write programs for the Apple and they did. Including a fella named Bill Gates.
When the Mac came out in ‘84, it was the first personal computer that had an easy to use graphical interface, which was a big plus for people in the publishing industry, graphic designers, etc.
It took Microsoft almost 10 years to catch up with the Mac. Like the old bumper sticker ‘Windows 95 = Macintosh 84′
Its funny to see all these people bash Apple. If you don’t like it, use a PC. Personally, I have both, but the Mac is the one that gets used. The PC gets used mainly for watching Netflix movies…
RedbonePro on January 6, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Exactly right. I have to use PCs for vertical-market software in the office (though I run a WinXP virtual machine on my MacBook Pro), but for everything else I use the vastly superior Mac OS.
Great parody, though. Those ONN production values are so good you could throw that on one of the cable-news networks and not notice the difference.
MrLynn on January 6, 2009 at 3:36 PM
Test
FloatingRock on January 6, 2009 at 7:44 PM
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