Mac Introduces Keyboardless Laptop

[Wuggawoot]

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ap ple_introduces_revolutionary

Discuss.

[Halvgoeden]

Before this gets out of hand, everyone should know the Onion is a joke newspaper and is hilarious.

My discussion:

A keyboard-less Mac wouldn't be that bad as long as there was some sort of on screen program or voice operated typer.

[Sensationalism]

At 1/20/09 10:10 AM, Halvgoeden wrote: Before this gets out of hand, everyone should know the Onion is a joke newspaper and is hilarious.

Yeah, we all know that already.

[Halvgoeden]

At 1/20/09 10:10 AM, Sensationalism wrote:

At 1/20/09 10:10 AM, Halvgoeden wrote: Before this gets out of hand, everyone should know the Onion is a joke newspaper and is hilarious.

Yeah, we all know that already.

There's a chance someone doooesssn't, like oh my gawd... Sorry though.

[HungarianSupermarket]

I lol'd at one of the "most recent" videos: "Bratz Dolls May Give Young Girls Unrealistic Expectations Of Head Size (3:20)"
But this does look like a silly idea. I prefer to stick with my keyboard, thankyou very much.

[JaY11]

''Virtually indestructible, unless dropped or hit''.

Lmao, genius.

[StickyStick]

Theonion got lame when Family Guy introduced it to the world. It was better when not so many knew about it.

[Sensationalism]

At 1/20/09 10:13 AM, HungarianSupermarket wrote: I lol'd at one of the "most recent" videos: "Bratz Dolls May Give Young Girls Unrealistic Expectations Of Head Size (3:20)"
But this does look like a silly idea. I prefer to stick with my keyboard, thankyou very much.

I was drawn to the Bratz video as well.

[Conspiracy3]

This is the onion so it is obviously fake

If this were real it would be horrible though as it would take an extremely long time to type anything.

[Sensationalism]

At 1/20/09 10:47 AM, Conspiracy3 wrote: This is the onion so it is obviously fake

If this were real it would be horrible though as it would take an extremely long time to type anything.

I was unable to use my keyboard once. I copy pasted sections of text to communicate. It was funny, time-consuming, and annoying. Good times.

[Halvgoeden]

At 1/20/09 10:49 AM, Sensationalism wrote: I was unable to use my keyboard once. I copy pasted sections of text to communicate. It was funny, time-consuming, and annoying. Good times.

That sounds like a terrible chore...However (comma) it shows your dedication.

[Shakyjake]

Haha, the guy they "interviewed" was brilliant...

"I'll by anything shiny as long as it's from Apple"

I watched some of the other pieces too, the weather bias one was ok but that was about it...

[OneWordName]

"... they are already hard at work on the next generation of the MacBook Wheel, which will be four ounces lighter, due to its lack of screen, hard drive or wheel."

I giggled.

[EmmDubya]

At 1/20/09 11:13 AM, OneWordName wrote: "... they are already hard at work on the next generation of the MacBook Wheel, which will be four ounces lighter, due to its lack of screen, hard drive or wheel."

I giggled.

I was just about to mention that phrase. In my opinion it's the funniest thing I've heard for quite a while. When I was originally watching it that was the phrase that assured me that it was definitely pure bullshit.

[dx5231]

I still prefeer the old-fashioned keyboard.

[rentman]

i lolled to this one but i have written a two page email in about 10 minute not half an hour so i think this is retarded i thik that the sucsess of the ipod went to their heads and now they have started to make outrages things moddled after them

[HandsomePete]

Honestly. Fuck that. That's like saying it's faster to text someone without a keyboard than it is to type it on a keyboard. I like my keyboard. Having a lot of buttons means you have a lot of options.

[HandsomePete]

And I didn't notice this was an Onion article, nevermind. But Apple would totally do something like that.

[ArtistJ]

At 1/20/09 10:07 AM, Wuggawoot wrote: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ap ple_introduces_revolutionary

Discuss.

I gotta say, I love this video.
The Onion is so clever. I never could stand Ipods and their wheels and that's one of the three biggest reasons I've stayed away from them. (because of the touchscreen the new itouch and iphone's are okay)

Ive gotta say, they summed up my hatred for the wheel pretty well there!

[Igotaname13]

FAIL
FAIL
FAIL

Mac is trying to hard
OMG I don't even like apple and their damn stupid Ipod
It will not make typing a thing of the past it will make the fucking wheel a thing of the past

BTW Why do all these laptops have to REVOLUTIONIZE everything
First its the mice, the printer, and now the damn keyboard

two more words

Utter FAILURE

[Dry-Ice]

"Then you rotate the wheel and select a letter, and repeat the process for each additional letter"

Does anyone else think this is about the most clumsy and complicated upgrade to something (which is already about as good as it gets) in history?

[Metal-Sonic-v2]

The Onion's videos are very clever. That laptop actually looked like a legitimate Apple product.

Typing like that would give me a headache. Imagine making a typo, and not realizing it until you've already typed hundreds of letters.

[greensucksbluerules]

Come on guys, Apple isn't that stupid.

Okay, they are.

[Rig]

"It's yet to be seen if the MacBook Wheel will catch on in the business world, where they use their computers for actual work instead of just dicking around."

That cracked me up.

[skykid10]

That is so lame. It would take forever to type anything! I am dissapointed in Apple. Its just unbelivable. Its a retarded idea because who needs a wheel to find a letter when you can just PRESS a button in a split second?
Pointless. Just Pointless.

[Deadly-Shadow]

"I'll buy anything as long as it's shiny and made by Apple"

The sad thing is, most Apple fans are actually like that.

[perphekt]

right so. instead of taking someone a few seconds to type out a sentence they will have to push and turn a giant wheel to get to the letter/number they need.
simple yes.
annoying? yes.

stupid? very.

[Proottalfain]

At 1/23/09 05:28 PM, skykid10 wrote: That is so lame. It would take forever to type anything! I am dissapointed in Apple. Its just unbelivable. Its a retarded idea because who needs a wheel to find a letter when you can just PRESS a button in a split second?
Pointless. Just Pointless.

I am dissapointed in Humanity. Its just unbelivable. You are retarded because you didn't get the obviousness of the joke.

[iateamexican]

I hate it when you think that "this makes no fucking sense, who could be this stupid?!" then realise its the onion.. ;(

[AutoTank]

heh, the onion always makes me laugh ^_^.