Jan 6 2009MacWorld Sneak Peak: The MacBook Wheel

haha... more than some are excited!!
i'll be there thursday

I love the macbook wheel I just ordered the $5000 version. Yah!

This looks like an ipod on steroids. I love mac and all, but this is crazy! Tell Daisy that she better not post a comment on this because we all already know what she is going to say. Daisy, read what I said about you on the xbox 360 room and take my advice.

I hate Apple. They're idiots' computers.

"I'll buy anything that is shiny and from Apple". LOL, that is exactly how I think of those weirdos.

I'm gonna hold out for the 8GB version with no screen, keyboard or hard drive!

Uh, fourht bitch!

Not fourth, how about 5th and 6th.

I'll love to watch this video, but The Man blocked it.....

Got around it.... it's a good thing that's fake b/c that a dumb idea....

@4

You've got a good point there. While I'm enjoying my "idiot computer" you should go update your firewall/virus definitions, and reboot, oh, and clean your registry and/or reinstall your OS.

No no no this is terrible on many levels.

How in the hell is anyone going to be able to type with any speed compared to a keyboard while constantly scrolling their fingers around on a wheel. Not a chance... I bet those korean kids that score millions on dance dance revolution couldn't type nearly as fast as most people could on a keyboard using that stupid wheel.

Then there's the sentence autocompleting thing ugh... Anything that I've used that has that is terrible because it never knows what I am going to type, and what it thinks I am saying is always off. When I want to type the 1st few letters or 'f***in firsty fags suck it' - the phrase 'Fun with animals' always pops up in front of my text aaaahhh!

The only thing I like about this is that stupid keyboard that pops up when you start dj'ing the wheel, it looks like the same method of entering your characters name in most video games. Everything else with it's text entry = failsuace supreme

WTF.
laptop my ass, yea 19mins before it needs a recharge wtf. great for typing it takes u like 30 secs to do a single letter. also overpriced much 2600 for an 8gb version. its like a giant ipod that is overpriceed and needs a constant power supply.you can do all of that on on iphone and it doesnt cost that much, you can call and text people, doesnt need power constantly and is alot more portable.

I usually don't find ONN funny, but that one made me chuckle a bit.

this was on the onion, it's not a real product! goofballs.

LMAO "spent 45 minutes typing an email to his friend..." hahahahaha

That guy near the end... what did they say, it took him FOURTY FIVE MINUTES to type an email to his friend!!! bwahahaha zomgbbqfailsuacewtfkillerbees!!!!!!

"Virtually unbreakable, unless dropped or hit." That's some seriously funny shit.

Long Live the COCKPUNCHER! I love the Onion.

Hey here comes Daisy.....

The part of my soul that still holds out a tiny, flickering candle flame of hope for the future desperately wants #9 and #10's comments to be attempts at subtle irony. But no.

These are the same people that stand around in parties and correct the factual errors in knock-knock jokes. And edit Wikipedia pages.

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max put spinner wheels on his moped, and cruised over to Bajas house to invite her to Del Tacos. Baja's dad was cleaning up some yard waste with a wood chipper and while Max wasn't looking put his moped in there.

Max couldn't find his moped, and immediately thought Pat Sajack was in the area.He got so worked up he had a heart attack and needed to be revived with Baja's defibrillator.

Baja's dad gave the kids a ride to Del Tacos where they saw Pat Sajack, who received quite a beating and had no idea what he did.

i work for a company and we make apple accessories and after hearing this....
it just reminds me of idiocracy and wall-e.

humans are getting lazy and stupider by the minute.

welcome to costco, i love you

Michael must've bought one & not be so happy with it. The bigger question though, is did he type that out using that ridiculous wheel?

@9, 10

Epic failure.

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene from the movie Tender Dracula where Dracula and his resurrected man-servant run their own local cable television program. A rich guy happens to see them on television while his girlfriend is channel hopping, and decides to exploit them.
After they sign the deal, he changes the whole format and makes the mayor of punksetawny sponsor them with his gelatinous cube.

It scares me how many people think this is real. These are same people who scream FAKE! when they see a video of a kid falling off his bike, or PHOTOSHOP! when they see a picture of a woman holding a child... these people doubt everything they see online, yet they watch the Onion News Network and believe every word.... lol... These are the same people that voted McCain!

@23. You can't take anybody seriously around here.

WOWZORS i just ordered twenty four 64.3GB versions of those from party plaza! watch out NASA, i'm gonna poop.

*bangs head on desk*

@known -- please, for the love of all that is holy, read the entire article before you post. Or wiki "Onion News Network."

"The aardvark asked for a dagger". Damn, how'd they know exactly what I was going to type?

The predictive sentence list included:

"The abortion went well."

"The aardvark asked for a dagger."

awesome.

Mac people are good while others are bad.

I think this is a bad idea, keyboard must stay, they should make an ipod size wheel in additional to the touchpad and keyboard. no way would i ever spend 45 min to type an e-mail.

Michael don't get so damn bent out of shape when I miss, the sand from your vagina is starting to cover the entire floor & it's getting messy

@30 -- your father not pulling out was a bad idea.

Honest to god, people. You make a ridiculously good case for retroactive abortion.

you should talk #32, you're the one sitting there reading geekologie

@8

Exactly. A Mac owner need not even know how to do any of those things.

Defensive, though? Buyer's remorse?

Best bits were "everything just a few hundred clicks away" and "to reduce energy use screen goes black after 4 seconds." lol that last one's not far from the truth, even the desktop imacs do that by default, why?!

@33 - pot, meet kettle.

@23 - I doubt the people that do the things you mentioned are capable of voting... hanging chad anyone?

Gotta say this most likely deserves a good round house kick to the face.

For everyone on here who hates the idea of the Macbook Wheel -- the Onion also reported on the USB Toaster not long ago. I'd love to hear your opinions.

http://store.theonion.com/img/uploads/1413

I'm not sure if it was put out by Apple, though...

Michael that toaster was on my christmas list, as you'd expect

Thumper, I have no remorse for being loyal to GW and this website & I am always happy to remind others

I found the video absolutely hilarious, but reading through the menagerie of idiots commenting on it is even more entertaining. To all that take this obviously satirical report honestly, I salute you, you flaming idiots.

This is retarted. New bat. runs for a whole 19 minutes?!! and the guy trying it took 45 minutes to type 4 lines...time saving, engineering FAIL. if it ain't broke, don't tying to trend-i-fy it.

and even after 40 comments, #41 continues the stupidity.. How blatantly dumb do you have to be to believe this shit?

@41, R-E-T-A-R-D-E-D FAIL. You retard! Unless you're a sluttly retard, then you are a retart.

Whether it be here, youtube, liveleak etc ALWAYS watch the videos before commenting or you could look like one of the 'tards who posted above. All these years of video on the internet and people still aint learned.

Holy flaming shitballs! Without a keyboard you attention whores couldn't write all these nobel winning commentaries.

Holy shit! GW reads the Onion too! Oh....wait....no...... GW waited for this article to become an ONN video report. Ghey.
P.S.
@Everyone who has never had the pleasure of reading the Onion and believes what they write.
They also said Jesus went to jail for killing several people at an abortion clinic and that hell has constructed a new tenth level for disney executives. You are a bunch of flaming f*** tards for thinking anything the Onion puts out is real.

next you'll tell us Santa isn't real... Douche!... McAllister!

Ha, no video games. :D

rofl... the dipshits commenting are even funnier than the actual video. allow me to explain.....FFFFFFAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! GOD!

yeah, this basically follows the guidelines of any "macbook innovations".

" if it's shiny and made by apple, i'll buy it!" : follows guidelines of apple fanboy 101
"...in the buisness world, where people use computers for actual work and not just dicking around" yup.

I love the new MacBook Wheel!
The wheel is the way of the future.
Keyboards are for dumb monkeys writing Shakespeare.

Auto-sentencing is amazing. I don't even have to think any more. Apple does it for me.

Sign me up.

The Onion rocks. I love it when people don't realize it's a joke and get all bent out of shape. I wonder how many hate letters they get a day from idiots who don't realize it's a JOKE! HAH

wtf is wrong with a normal keyboard? i don't wanna spend 30 minutes just ot type "hello" on msn. this is totally unpractical.

Anyone notice that the sentence completer at the beginning that had completed the sentence with, "The Abortion went well." You know, because that's what most people write when they type "Th" in a text box.

@53 yea, I noticed that, 25 posts ago. But, it is damn funny. I wonder if anyone can get some screen shots of the whole list. I noticed some of them start with "The ass..." but I can't make the whole sentence out. It seems they actually took the time to put some pretty funny stuff on there.

want to open internet explorer? just a few hundred clicks away!

My god. Some of you people are phenomenal f***tards.

That's so dumb. Why would you replace the keyboard for a wheel? You can barely type at all. That's the main reason you use a computer. And what about the mouse? Do you just "Tab" through everything with the wheel until you end up with what you want? Also, did anyone notice that lady said "dicking around" at the end? Are they allowed to say that on the news? It's almost like it isn't a real news station. And the news reports scrolling at the bottom barely seemed like news reports at all. I am seriously doubting the integrity of this news program.

Lol @50 & 52... Why would any person "with common sense" make something like this..

I saw this last night. I love how spot-on it is with how people will buy anything Apple puts out (me included, so don't get all bent out of shape). The Onion is great!

TO ALL THOSE WHO KEEP COMMENTING ON HOW DUMB PEOPLE ARE FOR BELIEVING THE MAC BOOK WHEEL IS REAL.....NO ONE THINKS ITS REAL , TROLLS ARE JUST EGGING YOU ON TO THINK THEY DONT KNOW ITS FAKE. NOTICE AFTER EVERY SENTENCE COMMENTING ON HOW "DUMB" THE RETARDS ARE FOR "THINKING ITS REAL" , THERES ANOTHER POST SAYING " MAC WILL NEVER SELL ANY OF THOSE" OR "WHY WOULD I SPEND MY MONEY ON THAT?". YOURE TAKING THE BAIT. NO ONE ACTUALLY BELIEVES THIS THINGS IS REAL THEYRE JUST SHOWING HOW STUPID PEOPLE ARE FOR ASSUMING PEOPLE ARE DUMB ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT CRAP.

lolz @ 57.

I actually thought it was real at first because it totally sounds like something apple would do. Which I guess is the saddest part of all.

OH, and look at the list of sentence finisher.

"The aardvark admitted it was wrong"

"The abortion went well."

Good predictive text

GUYS IT'S FAAAAAKE!!

i lold when they sayd :
the next generation without screen hard drive or wheel

First you tell me the story is fake...
Now you are telling me the comments are fake.

I don't know what to believe anymore, my world is collapsing.

"The Apple was airmailed by the doctor"

despite really really crappy predictive text...how does a HUGE ipod keyboard help?!?!?...

Also 45 minutes to type an email, vitrually unbreakable unless dropped or beaten...hmm

Are they taking the piss out of that moron saying he spent 45 minutes typing it out - what the f***?

LOLOL1!! Fak3

To #60. I think some people really thought it was real despite what you think. Most people don't read everyone's comments and just go directly to the bottom and start typing. So in my opinion...people are pretty dumb, but you can't blame them, just blame Apple. But seriously "dicking around"...how would that line be in a "real" news reel people? Oh and I would wager that a lot of people don't know what The Onion is.

Yo its fake its a Joke. I cant believe these idiots that think its real...

"B-Ron - January 6, 2009 12:21 PM

I love the macbook wheel I just ordered the $5000 version. Yah!"

what a liar and a loser...

sooooo.....by reading these comments, i'm thinking that this video was fake. can someone please explain it? it's pretty weird if you ask me. there seems to be a lot of experts here.

was I the only one to catch when he was trying to complete the sentence that it said

"the abortion went well" ?

It's a spoof!!!

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary

Whoa…this is definitely revolutionary but I’m not sure if it’ll catch on. Ditching the keyboard could be a great space saver and make for ultra light portable laptops but I’m not sure the additional “100 clicks” is worth the loss of a laptops primary source of input (the trusty keyboard). The keyboard is tried and tested and I dont think its time to lose it. Like another poster mentioned, maybe its best to introduce a smaller “Wheel” alongside the regular keyboard and break us all in gently.

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It's FAKE, Jobs was not a the expo. He is out for a while. Fake!