MacBook Air in the wild... with John Mayer
That's right kids -- the unthinkable has happened. John Mayer, electric-crooner, BlackBerry pusher, ladykiller, and all around bon vivant has gotten his hands on a real, live MacBook Air. Sure, it's not surprising that a celebrity millionaire who's buddy-buddy with Jobs and Co. would have a pre-release model, but it may come as a shock that he's using the new ultraportable Mac to look at photos of himself double-fisting a couple of BlackBerrys. We suppose it's possible that someone has doctored this photo, but highly unlikely.
[Via TUAW]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Isaac @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:04PM
I don't know which is more dreamy... John Mayer or the Mac Book Air.
I'M NOT GAY!
Mile @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:12PM
Um...actually, yes yuo are!
SmartedPanda @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:40PM
Now you are.
BobTurbo @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:43PM
At least bi-sexual.
GJP303 @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:48PM
idk, maybe Isaac is a girl. You silly gooses.
Ellianth @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:29PM
@GP:
Then I guess her parents really wanted a boy
RyanTV @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:27AM
John Mayer is a freaking fruit. I guess its perfect he has the MBA.
wolfy @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:31AM
You sure about that?
yoshi @ Jan 23rd 2008 5:15AM
Who exactly is John Mayer? Never heard of him.
Isak? @ Jan 24th 2008 2:23AM
You've sullied our good name....
helloUser @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:04PM
Even apple users prefer blackberries over iphones.
Mke @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:24PM
Huh? I don't get why you'd say that considering how amazingly well the iPhone has been selling. I am a hardcore Apple user and I want that new Nokia with qwerty keyboard... But still, I realize that most others do not. (My whole family has iPhones, most of my friends have iPhones... Apple's first quarter results show huge iPhone sales... People are iPhone crazy!!!)
Mke @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:24PM
Huh? I don't get why you'd say that considering how amazingly well the iPhone has been selling. I am a hardcore Apple user and I want that new Nokia with qwerty keyboard... But still, I realize that most others do not. (My whole family has iPhones, most of my friends have iPhones... Apple's first quarter results show huge iPhone sales... People are iPhone crazy!!!)
jimmy @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:00PM
mke you should call yourself "larry literal", geez
Shmapple @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:30PM
@ Mke
You do realize that even with the hype, significant price cut on the iPhone, and Apple's aggressive marketing and advertising, the iPhone may still fall shy of the 10 million phones Apple predicted they were going to sell by the end of the this year. This will be especially difficult as the low hanging fruit consumers have already been picked (e.g., Apple fanboys, fashionistas, people whose contracts had recently expired), the economy worsens having the effect of a slowdown in consumer spending, especially on products like iPhones, and new touchscreen phones (see, e.g., Samsung's F490 with 3G/HSDPA, better camera, etc.) are released. By the way, I found it very misleading how Steve Jobs used the smart phone market share to make it seem like the iPhone has more market share than it really does. By AT&T's own classification and a comparison of features (i.e., no push-email, no SyncML, no voice dailing, no 3G or HSDPA, no MMS, no EMS, no USB, no memory card slot, no tethering/not data-capable, cannot open many file types (see word, pdf, excel, powerpoint, etc), no mp3 ringtones, no voice memo, etc.), the iPhone is NOT a smartphone. It is a "fashion phone." In comparison, another fashion phone, the Motorola RAZR, sold 50 million Razrs in its first two years.
syadasti @ Jan 23rd 2008 7:36AM
Yeah the iPhone was 5th (2nd North America), RIM 4rd (1st North America), Microsoft 3rd, Linux 2nd, and Symbian 1st worldwide (all other smartphone vendors are not even close to them in global sales).
A distance 5th place, ha!
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2007/12/19/iphones-q3-sales-second-only-to-blackberry/
austin @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:06PM
that phone looks like a motoQ for verizon. it could be a red curve, not sure
mike @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:06PM
Who really cares? Seriously Engadget!
roole @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:49PM
You do. Maybe not in a positive way, but you do.
austin @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:59PM
the award for most obnoxious MS fanboy goes tooooooooooo - MIKE!
seriously, you have been all over the place today alone with your stupid vista logo bashing apple. i used windows for years, went so far as to buy a zune. now that i use mac and iPod, i am much happier with my electronics. they just work.
mike @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:22PM
I do it for the lulz
Autopsy15 @ Jan 23rd 2008 12:22AM
Mike,
This is for you.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/moneda/you_win_inet.jpg
Joel @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:08PM
Photoshop. Original link: http://blog.honeyee.com/john/#top
Gremlin @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:23PM
Its not even a good photoshop job. The "Read" link shows the original image.
Hashbrown_Hunter @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:32PM
Who cares? It's funny, and that's all that matters.
yelohbird @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:41PM
Someone missed the sarcasm in the last line.
jtbrazier @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:08PM
Dork of the Year Nominee....
painty @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:17PM
This is so funny....and the award for pointless Apple referencing goes to......ENGADGET!...yay! A big sloppy kiss from Steve Jobs for you!
mike @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:18PM
Only a kiss???
aguiluz @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:29PM
A sloppy kiss from Steve Jobs and a sloppy fart from John (somehow "john" makes me think of the toilet!?) whatever.
Seeriously, WHO CARES of who holding the Macbook Ars- err... Macbook Air. Overhyped, overpriced, eh?
Superpowered PCs, Superpowered Laptops, UMPCs and Eees are FTW.
ray @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:20PM
lol, i just never get how he got a blog from honeyee.
yoyodude64 @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:21PM
haha look at the lines around the photos...clearly photoshoped!
o and when u click the link...its the unphotoshoped photo. explanation...
BobTurbo @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:22PM
God this is just ridiculous.
Hung @ Jan 23rd 2008 1:22AM
How did know one catch this?
"...at photos of himself double-fisting a couple of BlackBerrys."
What the L, Engadget? That's not even clever. In fact, it's just funny. Totally fucking hilarious. I didn't laugh out loud, but I would have if I were 3 years younger and a handle less sober.
P.S. Yes, it all makes grammatical sense.
mark_stearns @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:26PM
he took pics of his macbook air while flying US Airways....
if you look close at the pics on his blog you can tell
he's on a plane.... and peep a US airways lable.
lucky bastage! the damn thing isn't in the BIG Apple stores in NYC
and he's got one to goof around with.
JAmerican @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:29PM
MacBook Air looks like a great dish tray :).
I personally would have preferred if Apple released a 10" UMPC Macbook Air and made Air their UMPC line.
LRFTW
topspinserve @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:31PM
Um, guys, I think when the article says that this picture is clearly not photoshopped, it's an attempt at a joke.
Rotten Apple @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:33PM
Pure garbage!
You Apple fans fall for it everytime. Save your hard earn money and buy a different laptop.
Curtis @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:33PM
People please... it is a slow "tech" news day.
Reader @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:40PM
Is this some form of Engadget humor I don't understand?
roole @ Jan 22nd 2008 10:51PM
Yes, apparently.
tsecam @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:03PM
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/22/john-mayer-has-a-macbook-air-and-you-dont/
There is the actual screen.
johnzilla @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:10PM
Who's John Mayer?
Charlotte @ Jan 23rd 2008 8:46AM
What's a Mac? ;-)
webon @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:20PM
wtf
Emanuel @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:25PM
it looks doctored...check the halo glow around the picture itself.... might be a real MacBook Air but the pic of John Mayer might not be legit....
Allister @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:28PM
Is John Mayer flying economy/coach?
frozo @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:40PM
Can I puke now?
yelohbird @ Jan 22nd 2008 11:42PM
http://blog.honeyee.com/
Apparently Eric Clapton also got one. Sponsorship?
Austin @ Feb 26th 2008 2:06PM
awsome spam!!