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Last post Author Topic: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary  (Read 18498 times)

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2009, 10:58 PM »
That is hilarious and true! ;D

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2009, 11:29 PM »
"And nothing is more simple than a single giant button"

ROFL!!

I can't wait for the model with no hard drive, screen, or wheel - maybe get 2x the battery life! ;D

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2009, 12:13 AM »
FYI if anyone wants to download the video (to show on your PSP, phone, iPod, whatever), you can get it here (I had to decode the embed code to get to it):

http://www.theonion....&autostart=false

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2009, 06:30 AM »
"We're giving customers features they don't even realize they want them yet." ;)

No one will make me believe that the big wheel can be better for typing.

Ehhh. Some time ago I thought Apple knows about usability but now I doubt it. Something must be wrong with them: 1 button mouse 'till 2005 (IIRC), annoying top bar and lot of glitches proves against this thought.

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2009, 06:53 AM »
this is a joke fenix

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2009, 06:57 AM »
Brilliant ... and SOOOOOOO true

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2009, 08:17 AM »
2justice

I know this is a joke but I will not change my opinion. I'd used to think about Mac as really cool machine 'till I had to work with it (for 2 months).

I know I am Windows user but too many things was too annoying for me:
1. Alt+Tab showing apps which were supposed to be closed;
2. 30'' display and need to use menu;
3. Photoshop closing without any notice;
4. Omnigraffle switching off whole computer without reason;
5. few more...

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2009, 08:25 AM »
That would frustrate me  too. :( The majority of creative industries use macs and run photoshop by preference. I don't think bad software and unfamiliar keybaord shortcuts should be attributed to the OS Manufacterer though.
« Last Edit: January 06, 2009, 08:27 AM by justice »

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2009, 12:11 PM »
Saw this earlier... and laughed hard at "I'll buy just about anything if it's shiny and made by Apple" - that sentence is just so true, and fits the majority of the mac-using fanboys perfectly. :-*
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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2009, 05:19 PM »
I most enjoyed the end where the announcer suggested it wouldn't be taken up in the workplace because people actually work there instead of just dicking around.  :-*

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2009, 05:21 PM »
I most enjoyed the end where the announcer suggested it wouldn't be taken up in the workplace because people actually work there instead of just dicking around.  :-*
IMHO it would've been funnier if the reporter had been all for it - just like the typical media sheeple.
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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2009, 08:47 PM »
Watch the video again and keep your eyes on the ticker at the bottom.


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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2009, 08:37 PM »
I seen around at least one article that talked about the Onion's joke as if it was a real thing!  ;D

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2009, 02:30 AM »
At work about half the creative staff were taken hook line and sinker to the end of the video.

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2009, 08:39 AM »
Next up will be the noMac for the ultimate in zen-computing.

No screen, no drive, no CPU...just you...sitting in complete tranquility...visualizing yourself doing all these incredibly creative "things."

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Oh me...
Oh my...
Om...

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2009, 09:57 AM »
I think the next stage is just a surgically implanted wheel on the forehead ...

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #17 on: January 08, 2009, 10:05 AM »
2Carol Haynes
You're wrong. Next one is replacing your *** and making sex using wheel ;)

Forehead is after that!

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2009, 09:00 PM »
Next one is replacing your *** and making sex using wheel ;)
-fenixproductions (January 08, 2009, 10:05 AM)

That sounds painful and incredibly awkward... ;D

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2009, 09:04 PM »
Next one is replacing your *** and making sex using wheel ;)
-fenixproductions (January 08, 2009, 10:05 AM)

That sounds painful and incredibly awkward... ;D

Apple fanatics sure would love it, though. :P

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #20 on: January 13, 2009, 02:53 AM »
Make sure it's shiny, otherwise there'll be an uprising :P

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #21 on: January 13, 2009, 04:03 AM »
Is it me or is it getting hot in here ....

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #22 on: January 13, 2009, 08:15 AM »
Is it me or is it getting hot in here ....

Sex is a topic that invariably generates more heat than light. ;)


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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #23 on: January 14, 2009, 11:30 PM »
Everyone I know prefers it to be dark... doesn't that defeat the purpose of shininess? (That's a word?!?!?!) ;D

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Re: Apple Wheel macbook - revolutionary
« Reply #24 on: January 15, 2009, 12:51 AM »
doesn't that defeat the purpose of shininess? (That's a word?!?!?!)

It is if you're Kaywinnet Lee Frye (aka Kaylee).

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