MacBook Wheel revealed by the Onion News Network
By Laura June 
posted Jan 5th 2009 9:50PM
posted Jan 5th 2009 9:50PM
I never really realized how nuch I hated keybroads untill I saw this thing.
Sent from my MacBook Wheel
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Sent from my MacBook Wheel
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Onion FTW!
Instead of Jobs saying that people were "standing in the way of human progress," they should have said that Steve Jobs was quoted as saying that keyboards were a "bag of hurt".
this made my day. the funny thing is that if they actually did this, they'd have lines of people waiting to buy one. I'll take two of the ones with 40gb for nearly 10k each!!!!
Fuckin' Hilarious, simply put.
Me like Onion
It's funny
There is so much greatness in this video! The promo poster headlines and the box design with the wheel spotlight underneath the laptop are so perfectly Apple. Bravo!
@brandon:
Not funny. Just stupid and disgusting.
so it takes a minute to type an URL?
You know, this would be a very great product, hell, it could even beat windows because that what apple does--innovate!
\sarcasm
damn! they put a LOT of work into that! bravo! golf claps, onion network, golf claps.
hahahahahahahahahahahaha...
well captured idolatry! oh our dumb world....
rofl...."the aardvark admitted it was wrong."
A lot of work for a joke, but just damn good stuff. Should take a poll to see how much time it took for anyone to say "yea right". Took me till just about the time I hit "submit" on my amazon order for $2600 for the damn thing.
Ok, now I want to see a poll of how many people went and search amazon for it. :)
I second that. Love this line....."The Macbook Wheel is virtually unbreakable unless hit or dropped"..haha
I was a bit worried this is real at first because the video is so well made!!! Now I think I'm stupid...
ROFL.
I bet some people believed this.
Wait... so, the doing away of the laptop makes it so you have to search for the letter, and then your sentence, if said sentence exists?
Sounds like a lot more work than it's worth....
I hate all things apple.
I thought this was real because i found it somewhere else. I realized it was not real looking at these comments.
Apple could actually make this and it's idiotic followers would rapidly eat them up.
Sorry but its true! hence it took me a few secs to realize it was a very well made prank
What can I say this was by far the best "Spoof" I have ever seen and coming from the Onion Network they play it to the bone.
All I can say is "Job Well Done on Steve Jobs."
I am getting two when they go on sale...........
lol "keybroads"
Had the ipod touch not had a virtual keyboard - THIS is what you'd have gotten !
I WANT IT!
MacBook Wheel, the perfect gift for the keybroads in your life.
Think how funny this will be, if apple releases iPhone nano with wheel :)
Haha yeah xD
This is thing pure genius!
MacBook wheel 8GB
$2,599
Typing an e-mail
45 minutes
MacBook wheel "4 ounces lighter due to it's lack of screen, hard drive or wheel"
Priceless
Like the girls in South Florida, the Wheel is pretty, very pretty but dumb
my mom's from south florida. wait....
hahaha oooommmmgg...lmafo
ya I hate "keybroads" that "nuch" too ;)
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised.
Hilarious.
did you really laugh?
i did laugh! because i know there are suckers who would buy it. people bought the macbook air didnt they?
for around the same price, they coulda bought something better and weights lighter from toshiba or lenovo, maybe not as thin.
I didnt really laugh at the wheel but I lol at the Sudoku killer, that was unexpectedly funny.
the last time I checked the x300 is more, not less expensive than the MBA.
@darkstar
Yeah... Toshiba.... and Lenovo.... because everyone wants deep down inside are masochists begging for a piece of Vista ass-rape pain.
Toshiba ought to stick to fridges and freezers, Lenovo should join them.
It's like the fool buying cheaper shoes Because They Were CHEAP. They fall apart in a year, and you have to buy new ones or fix them.
I welcome my low ranking like a martyr!
@thatfenderstratguy
lol, just how long do expect shoes to last? nice analogy, buddy...
LMAO! wow that would make typing impossible :S
and typing mistakes!
That's what the predictive sentence technology is for!
"...spent 45 minutes typing an e-mail to a friend" xD
hey i bet someone would buy that
That Zack guy or w/e who got to play with it is Clak!
Dear Robber, You wont believe where I am# I)m at the Mac Expo ænd I am USING thep colic new Macwheel laptop. I'll BET YOU ARE JEAlouz
________________________
Sent from a MacBook Wheel
Someone get this man a beer
First time clak didn't get low ranked? I'm impressed.
LOL
thats stupid as hell
LOL did anyone else just hear a loud "whooshing" noise?! hahaha
I don't know what's funnier, the video or the fact that some people watching it don't realize it satire! lol.
The Onion rocks.
It's obviously a MacBook Air with a wheel look-alike placed over the keyboard.
Wow, I finally know iEye's real name - Alex Zalban.
Dear Robber, You wont believe where I am# I)m at the Mac Expo ænd I am USING thep colic new Macwheel laptop. I'll BET YOU ARE JEAlouz
what a waste of time. APPLE will lose with this POS
engadget thank you for this post
now please ban anyone who thought this was real
I dont know whether to laugh or cry.
We are supposed to be knowledgeable folks here!?!
@Uncontrol That is a shockingly good idea -- I'm seriously considering it!
god the onion is awful.
OK, some major failage going on here. :/
This was aimed at another thread (Fail #1), and was intended to be name-spoofed for humor (Fail #2). Going to a "incognito window" and retrying, but y'all go ahead and rank this one down.
Well, at least we know what iEye looks like now.....
Wow what a idiot. Hed waste 45 minutes to type that stupid email on that dumb ass wheel when you can just type it plain with a keyboard.
Please be kidding
yeah geez really how could anyone be that dumb
(you are that dumb)
How the hell was I supposed to know what the Onion Network is???? With the things that Apple come up with this seemed believable.
ugh.... another lost cause, anyone?
I'd say Andre is having a nice laugh at the rest of you. If he can figure out the Engadget comment system, he's -gotta- be smart enough to pull some hijinx.....
Andre just stop talking!!
-not playing with a full deck?
-elevator doesn't go all way to the top?
-a bubble off plum
andre = awesome
dont hate in the comments engadeteers, hees bein funny!
Andre,
If you don't live under a rock then you would know what the onion is. Even if you did live under a rock, I'm sure you could still find a wifi connection so there is no reason for you not to know what the onion is. If all else fails, try wikipedia.org or even urbandictionary.com
Honestly, i missed the fact that this was from the onion, and a believed it for all of... 20 seconds, because I'm not a complete idiot.
lol
"actual work and not just dicking around."
My fav. part as well... brilliantly executed and SO true it's scary
That should have been the fatty of last year.
U-S-E-L-E-S-S...NOW YOU TAKE 5 HOURS TO TYPE: THAT IS THE UGLIEST INVENTION OF THE YEAR...
LOL
maybe if your keyboard only had one button you could figure out how to turn the fucking capslock off
Really?
Please expound on your observations.
would anyone else buy one?
I guarantee it would have taken me around 5 minutes or even more just to type this comment. Luckily this came out since I hate "keybroads" so "nuch"
NOT if your an apple fanboy ..That why it has "predictive text" because they always say the same shit . love apple ..apple rocks apples the best lmao
I dont know what to say about that.......... it reminds me to the mapple episode of the simpsons.
Only much funnier.
they went through that much pain just to do that?dumb onion.
The Onion go through a lot of trouble to make some of their funniest material. See World of World of Warcraft: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play
That is a LOT of production value, but well worth it!
Is this some sort of early April fools joke, honestly, why take something such as a keyboard that takes seconds to type and and make it into a more complex process. This is not exactly useful for a laptop, I can see it on small handheld devices like it has been, but blowing it up to a huge scale and slapping it on a laptop does not seem to creative to me. The reason why devices had keyboards onscreen is because they were too small to have a physical keyboards on them. Taking a device the same size as a regular laptop and taking off the keyboard just makes it a hassle for prolonged use, it may be cool and interesting for an hour but that's it. That's just my personal opinion, others may love it. I just would not want that, nothing against Apple, but the clickwheel is impractical for a laptop.
how can anyone be as dumb as you
I take it you never heard of the Onion. In which case I shall notify the authorities of evicting you from your cave.
wow...
someone doesn't know about the Onion lololol that video is hilarious i keep watching it over and over :P
Honestly, I haven't heard about it. I check the tech news from time to time on here and I don't do much else on my computer, I'm usually out most of the time.
i hope you never breed any children because this world has enough stupid people in it as it is
I'll just agree with you on that, agreeing seems to make things easier when dealing with people with your mindset.
he's stupid for not reading unfunny fake news?
Even if you've neverheard of the Onion your first thought still should have been "there's no way that's for real". I think you're having us on.
He is clearly kidding. Right? RIGHT??
Waaaaah, I insulted the onion. Butt hurt babies.
first i was like, then i loled
unnervingly genuine seeming
I WANT ONE