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The tech world is buzzing over
Apple's latest must-have gadget,
the Mac Book Wheel.
A revolutionary new laptop that
does away with the keyboard.
Tech Trends reporter,
Jeff Tate has more.
Thanks, Andrea.
Say goodbye to the keyboard
and hello to the future
of laptop computers.
With the MacBook Wheel,
Apple has replaced the traditional
keyboard with a sleek,
touch sensitive click wheel.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced
the product yesterday
at the annual Mac Expo.
Senior product innovator,
Brian Gilman, says the MacBook Wheel
will make typing a
thing of the past.
At Apple, our philosophy is create
products that are simple to use.
And nothing's more simple
than a single giant button.
Gilman showed me how the
revolutionary new computer works.
Just open the Into Type
Alphabet menu here.
Scroll to the
letter you need, see?
and center click
to select it.
Then click again to capitalize and
repeat this process for each new letter.
It couldn't be simpler.
-Oh.
You can also let the predictive sentence
technology complete the sentence for you.
Gilman says the MacBook Wheel
has also simplified the organization of files,
so searching your hard
drive will be a snap.
Just press both sides of the wheel
concurrently, center click, and there,
you have an alphabetical listing
of every file on your hard drive.
Everything is just a
few hundred clicks away.
Apple is calling the MacBook Wheel
the most intuitive product ever designed.
Here at Apple we like to think that
we're giving customers features
they don't even
realize they want yet.
While the MacBook Wheel won't hit
the shelves for another 3 to 15 months,
many Apple users already
have it on their wish list.
I'll buy almost anything if it's
shiny and made by Apple.
Alex Zalban was one of the lucky
few to get to try out a MacWheel
and spent 45 minutes
typing an email to his friend.
I never really realized how much I hated
keyboards until I saw this thing.
I like how the Email automatically
says, sent from a MacBook Wheel.
That way people
know you have one.
With a price tag
of just under $2,6
for the lowest end MacBook
Wheel, it is an investment.
But, the super thin laptop features
numerous innovations like the new ultra-tin
Hummingbird Battery, which can power
the MacBook Wheel for a full 19 minutes,
before needing
to be recharged.
And the computer is virtually
unbreakable unless dropped or hit.
But Apple isn't
resting on its laurels.
Brian Gilman said they are already
hard at work at the next generation
of the MacBook Wheel,
which will be 4 ounces lighter,
due to its lack of
screen hard driver wheel.
For the Onion News Network,
I'm Jeff Tate.
Thank you for that, Jeff.
It remains to be seen if the wheel
will catch on in the business world,
where people use computers for actual
work, and not just dicking around.
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