New Zune 16GB colors, free McDonalds WiFi
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Sep 16th 2008 6:40AM
posted Sep 16th 2008 6:40AM
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Omg! that photoshopped baby looks scary!
Nice colours though
I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.
There's even more new colours here... but they don't say what size
http://zunerama.com/forum/index.php?topic=11241
That poor child isn't Photoshopped. It's a rare disease called ronaldmcitus, and it comes from mom eating too many McChicken sandwiches while the baby is in utero.
A picture of a fat kid would have much better, less creepy.
btw I'm ordering Mcdonald's today.... $1 menu sure is addictive.
What, $1!?!?! thats utterly cheap. no wonder so many fastfood visitors get fat.
Thats some scary sh*t, thought they'd started doing Stephen King themed happy meals for a second or two!
That's horrifying. Way to distract from a story.
ohmychrist i'm going to be having nightmares about this fucking thing for a week.
I'm glad i have 18 hours until I go back to bed, becuase its going to take that long to wipe this nightmare out of my mind with loads of drugs.
It's burning my eyes!
you lie Mr. S. you don't take drugs. more like tofu, spandex, and yoga.
Dr. McNinja is going to be upset when he sees that baby...
http://www.drmcninja.com/mcdonalds.html
Horror movie poster!
That's just creepy.
Yeah it is.Freaking thing made me miss my seat when I was about to sit down.Now my ass hurts.
@EmoChicks
nice cover up. stick to your story.
Right... so this is the kinda situation they invisioned with this deal eh?
*bites into greasy Big Mac* Hey, this is the perfect time to download some music! *whips out zune*
C'mon microsoft xD
Forgot to mention, that picture is epic creepy O_O
Just like an ipod user whose drinking their $7 coffee in starbucks and decides to purchase a song from itunes. People spend just as much time in McDs as they do in starbucks prob. Its just a diff type of consumer probably. Besides you have millions of teens a day that probably walk into a McDs and hangout. I see them in the parking lot near my house everyday.
you are one sloppy eater
Thank the digital gods for ABP.
@Neeko
... Probably.
What happened with free.wifi at Mcdonald's fo the Nintendo DS.
Dunno, but I hear that they are offering free wii. They call it coffee.
That image is disgusting.
i feel disgusting just looking at it. gross.
plus, anyone notice how the baby sort of fades away at the bottom? Must be part of the condition
so Zune user = McDonalds while Apple User = Starbucks.
Thanks a lot, Engadget.
I'll stick with churros thanks...
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get it? stick... churros...?
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ahh f*ck it...
I upvoted you Lanosian, but only because I love the churros
Yes, thank you Engadget. When I walk into Starbucks and whip out my iPod Touch today, I'll feel much more classy.
Yeah, biff, Starbucks. iPod Touch.
That's high society there.
No, seriously.
Don't forget, pinkies out.
Ironically, Starbucks is the McDonalds of coffee. Two places I try to entirely avoid.
Craig- Agree, although I stay away from Starbucks more to avoid people like Biff.
That image needs to be taken down. It's hideous. Looks like a blow up doll for pedophiles.
"Restaurant" = "Good Greasy Foood"
You beat me to it. Tasteless.
McDonalds already offers free WiFi throughout the whole of the UK at all of its resaurants and even certain franchises so i don't really see whats so great about this since anything with wireless connectivity can get internet @ McDonalds?
Obviously they do not have such an awesome thing as The Cloud in the US!
I was just thinking the same thing myself. I presume you have to be sitting right at the back of the place to get the free wifi though? I can't seem to get a signal from standing sheepishly outside on the kerb. Go *into* a McDonalds and buy "food" - are you crazy?!
Can't sleep, clowns will eat me
Iron helps us play!
I just woke up and was greeted by this image. Thanks engadget, now my reality is a nightmare as well.
Iknorite? I really enjoy waking up to the spawn of satan on my homepage.
OMFG...
i thought for a sec this was some blow up f••k doll till i realized this is some sick lookin made up kid .. ( the poor soul )
jeez thats some nasty sick lookin ad for a product .. !!
Am goin back to church this sunday !
ronald "mc baby" clown is too scary. Although, I must admit I have McD's for lunch sometimes and listen to my Zune while there. I think I'll go grab a Big Mac today!
I haven't been to McDonald's in a long time and I don't plan on going either due to the whole ... unhealthy food thing they got going there. (unless I'm in Japan or France ... I need to buy a McBeer at least one time in my life).
So... While I'm eating my fries, I can download songs with my Zune?
Nice strategy to smear my new Zune with McD's greasy oil...
Thanks Microsoft
Why couldn't it be Wendy's, or Burger King, or better yet, Dairy Queen?
How bout Sonic for that matter.
Sonic would be sort of cool since you're still in your vehicle usually.
uugh f*ck no, burger king is the worst of the worst, if you may you can call me a mcdonalds fanboy. hey and dont patrol the boards and tell me whats good or bad for me, mayb i wana live a short restricted unhealthy life. anyways, i dont think this will make me go sit down in a mcdonalds, i will do as usual, roll thru the drive thru with sunglasses, a hot, and a hoodie w/ the hood pulled up.
Scary pedo-sex doll for psychos !
I agree!!
Take that nasty picture down engadget. You have fucked yourself. Take that shit down now!!!
I telling the authorities and the backlash will cripple you.
Goddamn pedo minded bullshit!!!!
TAKE IT OFF YOUR SITE!!!!!!!!!!!!
did gary glitter lose his doll?
This is just another stupid example of MSs 'me too' M.O
Not only is their mickey mouse design a blatant ripoff of Apple, but the wi-fi is crippled.
Not at all like the iPod touch, which is in every way the Zune 16GB's equal, because they both have wi-fi built in
How dare microsoft adopt such a 'me too' approach and develop such a 'me too' product?
... There, I dirtied my mind just so you wouldn't have to waste what valuble brain cells you have left to post, Jubei.
Um, MS released the Zune 3.0 firmware today, so points=moot.
Easily the scariest add I've ever seen.
That photoshop is extremely creepy. Ronald mcdonald is bad enough....but this looks like some twisted version of IT.
WIN.
Zune has WiFi? how did M$ manage to do something write. i just might be buying this... when it comes to Aus.. in 100 years.
i got you covered man.
ho wheres my zune? is wayne brady gonna have to choke a bitch?
Why the hell do you link the 'refreshed' "Zune Originals" page to an Engadget tag? Especially since there hasn't been an article about in almost three months! I hate it when sites link to themselves or their parents/sister companies instead of linking to more useful links - like when Cinematical links to Moviefone instead of IMDb - Moviefone sucks! Phew, now that that's off my chest...
Come on, Engadget.. WTF! You have to pull this kind of crap for Zune.
How about doing one like this for Apple.
I agree! pretty gay from you engadget :)
The site is live btw, and how good is the intro video, I am definitely getting this one just for the video.
now i can enjoy GOOD coffee that doesn't cost $7 and download as many songs as I can for $15 why is iPod better again????
So true, Starbuck coffee sucks, but you can compare it to ipods, the main reason you go there is brand status, and after a while you begin to forget that their coffee isn't even that great.
I like how "restaurants" is in quotes.
Just stepping into a McDonalds makes me want to throw up from the smell. I can feel my skin getting acne from the grease in the air! There's no way I'd go into a McDonalds for free WiFi.
That baby is missing the rest of his body.
Holy crap. >.> That's scary.
Oh, um, zunes. yeah. Green one's nice.
scariest baby evAr?
OMG, that's just fscking creepy dude.
Look at it's eyes, man. Like a, like a doll's eyes, maan.
But maybe pedophiles are an unexplored niche on the market for MP3 player, huh? Think about that.
God gawd that's creepy.
First Gates and Seinfeld Then Zune and the scary Baby Great Marketing Dept Microsoft
For one minute their after looking at that baby I thought I was stoned.
Then I relised I don't take Drugs. Thats what happens when you drink Red Bull
Red Bull IS a drug, dumb-dumb!
Even the strangest of strange Zune commercials didn't approach the perverse creepiness of this photoshop. Please remove it.
DESTROY US ALL!
DESTROY US ALL!
(repeat 1000x times)
Luckily clowns hate tangelos.
An appropriate image for this Zune/McDonalds partnership. Digesting meat that borders on poison while using the "me too" bottom of the barrel Zune go hand in hand. User can use the crippled WiFi to access just the Zune "me too" Marketplace while eating crap that McDonalds passes on as food. Perfect combination. Bottom of the barrel player in conjunction with bottom of the barrel fast food restaurant makes for a perfect partnership.
Great job on the image Engadget.
Is there a "bottom of the barrel" option for rating Engadget comments? Voting down just seems insufficient at times.
IT'S NOT HOLDING! BE GONE, TROLL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0UjU0rtavE
If that doesn't work... I'll have to pull out the heavy artillery...
http://discussion.autodesk.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/78-611448-5727004-166605/Troll-B-Gon.gif
i bet this picture is michael jackson's favorite. He likes clowns and small kids. its a 2 for 1 deal.
Zune marketplace is not just a me too response and the Zune is definately better than the equivalent ipod. Until itunes gives you the option of subscription music itunes will be inferior.
that image is wrong
There's going to be a huge market for the Microsoft-McDonalds co-branded pedophile sex toy. That is the most disturbing image I have seen in months.
Thoroughly... creepy... image...
Zune + McDonalds? Like I needed another reason not to buy one...
Whoever the parent for that kid is, it wasn't worth it. Guess who will be paying for therapy sessions for that poor kid for the next 20 years?
Easily the most horrifying baby picture I've ever seen. I'm really hungry now though...
man, i guess Microsoft REALLY wants ZuneGuy back in their arms by trying to bait him in with a Big Mac and a creepy sex toy?
WTF???? ...there's a line that you never cross... McDonald's+MicroSoft+Freaky baby!!!!!!!!!! Ya, take the picture down.
Man, that's f'ed up!
Creepy! That kid looks a lot like that ghost kid from 'The Grudge'. *now I can't sleep*
nightmare !