HP exec cuts birthday cake with MacBook Air
By Ryan Block 
posted Jun 1st 2008 1:16PM
posted Jun 1st 2008 1:16PM
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Ahh, I thought Apples laptops were good for something.
Uh oh I got in late. Guys pass the popcorn and a beer, that ought to be interesting to watch ^^.
Well we learned one thing by seeing this picture: that if someone gives you a Mac book air for your birthday instead of getting angry use it to cut your birthday cake and hopefully in the process it gets cake in the motherboard and breaks and you can say it wasn't your fault.
You can?
If you click the pic, it goes to the blog entry, where it specifically states
"that is not an hp shirt"
thank you. glad im not the only one that is smart enough to read the link
the most expensive knife ever!
He's just trying to feed it some cake, so that it can gain some weight. Poor skinny thing :(
Why waste an airbook on cake when you can use it to fry eggs? http://macbookair.parnassusgroup.com/2008/05/moshis-zefyr-macbook-cooler-is-way-hot/
I highly doubt apple cares that their computer was ruined. They are still making money. :-D
this is so stupid! is he jealous? lol
Haha Funny stuff. Look at the Cake!!! The cake is not a lie!!!
quote: "
I wonder if the NAACP will step in to prevent further atrocities against Macs."
National Association for the Advancement of Cupertino Products?
I guess his warranty is pretty much out the window, huh? Try explaining the delicious chocolate frosting as "every day wear and tear". But what can you expect from a pc weenie? The joke's on him: his computers have no soul. :D
macbook air cuts cheese, story at 11!
This is supposed to be an insult to Apple? Try doing it with an HP notebook... You'd get a flat cake.
From the read link:
"I thought I'd explain myself: It was a combination of some fantastic wine, constant ribbing from my friends, and a hand rolled cigar that did this. "
Really? Hand rolled cigars cause lapses in judgement? Sounds like you're a stoner to me. A ridiculously rich stoner who works for a large corporation and probably wouldn't want anyone to know that you're a stoner.
I mean, I personally don't care if this guy smokes, but really... if he does, he's being pretty stupid for having made that cigar statement.
That cake is very similar to the cake from portal.
Your going to use an expensive laptop to cut a chocolate cake. Thats freaking insane shit. Well at least its not my laptop :p
@ all of you guys who just said that Macs are for rich kids: I go to a public high school, am from a normal middle class family, and use a Mac. So don't talk if you don't know.
Um, thin as a knife is now a bad thing? Glad I bought an Air for my wife and not an HP monstrosity.
So...no one has noticed nor used the Air purely for its sharp edge? I was using mine to cut a mango earlier tonight; it was messy.
In a pinch, when something needs cutting, I use my Mac Air.
It's not an HP shirt: http://www.musicesp.com/images/esdjcoreinvent.jpg
Cuts like butter...
Big deal! I dont see why it wouldnt work after a good cleaning. That laptop doesnt seem to have many places for the cake to get into anyways. I bet someone picked it up and is using it right now.
wupz...
hahhaha..
but, helloww.. that's an expensive thing u used to cut ur cake..
fiuh..
This is soooo cool! Remember the days of "Apple doesn't matter", "Apple is irrelevant", "Apple is dead". LOL! Now even the VP at HP has to use his birthday to somehow knock highflying Apple. I think this is sooo cool and shows just how scared HP and others are.
FIRST!!!
hahaha
-jp
he may think that's a dis to apple, but all Rahul Sood (however you say his name) is doing is showing how thin the mac book air really is.
Could it be just a display model?
THE CAKE IS A LIE!
Rahul Sood are in trouble with mac user...for god sake...i wish i can kill him!
If not for the optical being missing, I'd actually consider one. Requiring a tethered SuperDrive is not my cup o' tea, but the casing build quality on this thing is superior to all of the other Macbooks in the line.
Can I have the MacBook now that the stunt is over?
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20041013
Ohh is that the new line of kitchen knifes from Apple I gotta get one.........
Seems like their trying to saturate every market
Has anyone else noticed how he hinted at what seems to be a voodoo ultra portable? "Ahh well, I wouldn't be needing this notebook for long anyways... :) Stay tuned for more..."
I like the design. a rectangle which allows both hands to be engaged in slicing for which two hands participate in the cutting. The pressure of the slicer on the cake can be controlled this way. It just needs to cost $1750+ less.
That's a sweet looking cake, by the way. Anybody have chocolate strawberry before?
That is not an HP shirt........Look.....you sill see...............is not......................I am telling you is not..............no defenitely is not.............................
Thats a small birthday cake for a dude high in HP...and rich enough to afford an Air for a knife...
He can cut his cake with the air all day but it doesn't make up for how much cock HP's products suck every day, all week, all month, every year.
All we need now is Jack La Lanne demonstrationg its juicing properties and we're all set!
You know as senseless and stupid a stunt this is.....I personally think this stunt backfires on HP. What this stunt is telling me is that Apple makes such thin products that it can actually cut a cake. However, HP's stuff couldn't.
This could easily be one of those Mac and PC advertisements. A happy birthday thing where PC forgets to bring a knife and Mac says, "I got it", and cuts the cake.
LOVE THAT!
I always wondered what more I could get out of replacing my black MacBook with a MBA... Now I know.
Mmmmmm... caaaakeeeee...
What a cheese ball! I bet he can't do that with any of his HP's! If anything he is promoting the MacBook Air, just showing the rest of the world how thin it really is, if the HP gaming CTO has one too, what does that say about HP's laptop line... "HP's Laptops obviously can't cut it!!"
why the hell would someone pay £1999 for a laptop to use as a flippin knife. ...even if it was a publicity stunt!!
It's okay, Uncle Steve has a sense of humor :)
Bucko there HAD to use a MacBook Air to do it cuz none of the HPs can.
It's like they both makes knives, but only Apples can cut cakes while HP's squishes them.
Good job.
Proof that you can still have your cake and eat it too!
MacBook Air sees cake; thinks *om nom nom nom nom*