00:00:00.000,00:00:03.000 Captions by www.SubPLY.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00:00:00.830,00:00:01.930 Onion News Network 00:00:06.670,00:00:09.040 The tech world is buzzing over Apple's latest must-have gadget, 00:00:09.480,00:00:10.410 the Mac Book Wheel. 00:00:10.840,00:00:12.910 A revolutionary new laptop that does away with the keyboard. 00:00:13.580,00:00:15.210 Tech Trends reporter, Jeff Tate has more. 00:00:17.280,00:00:19.050 Thanks, Andrea. Say goodbye to the keyboard 00:00:19.450,00:00:21.820 and hello to the future of laptop computers. 00:00:22.660,00:00:25.060 With the MacBook Wheel, Apple has replaced the traditional 00:00:25.260,00:00:27.760 keyboard with a sleek, touch sensitive click wheel. 00:00:28.430,00:00:30.930 Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the product yesterday 00:00:31.330,00:00:32.740 at the annual Mac Expo. 00:00:33.300,00:00:35.670 Senior product innovator, Brian Gilman, says the MacBook Wheel 00:00:36.100,00:00:37.400 will make typing a thing of the past. 00:00:38.070,00:00:40.470 At Apple, our philosophy is create products that are simple to use. 00:00:41.110,00:00:43.050 And nothing's more simple than a single giant button. 00:00:43.680,00:00:46.050 Gilman showed me how the revolutionary new computer works. 00:00:46.650,00:00:48.920 Just open the Into Type Alphabet menu here. 00:00:49.320,00:00:51.490 Scroll to the letter you need, see? 00:00:52.120,00:00:53.990 and center click to select it. 00:00:54.420,00:00:58.360 Then click again to capitalize and repeat this process for each new letter. 00:00:59.630,00:01:01.370 It couldn't be simpler. -Oh. 00:01:03.300,00:01:06.300 You can also let the predictive sentence technology complete the sentence for you. 00:01:06.900,00:01:10.370 Gilman says the MacBook Wheel has also simplified the organization of files, 00:01:10.800,00:01:12.700 so searching your hard drive will be a snap. 00:01:13.140,00:01:16.570 Just press both sides of the wheel concurrently, center click, and there, 00:01:16.910,00:01:19.250 you have an alphabetical listing of every file on your hard drive. 00:01:20.110,00:01:22.250 Everything is just a few hundred clicks away. 00:01:22.860,00:01:26.130 Apple is calling the MacBook Wheel the most intuitive product ever designed. 00:01:26.550,00:01:28.890 Here at Apple we like to think that we're giving customers features 00:01:29.320,00:01:30.650 they don't even realize they want yet. 00:01:31.060,00:01:33.760 While the MacBook Wheel won't hit the shelves for another 3 to 15 months, 00:01:33.960,00:01:36.760 many Apple users already have it on their wish list. 00:01:37.200,00:01:38.700 I'll buy almost anything if it's shiny and made by Apple. 00:01:39.100,00:01:41.670 Alex Zalban was one of the lucky few to get to try out a MacWheel 00:01:42.100,00:01:44.670 and spent 45 minutes typing an email to his friend. 00:01:45.310,00:01:48.010 I never really realized how much I hated keyboards until I saw this thing. 00:01:48.610,00:01:51.480 I like how the Email automatically says, sent from a MacBook Wheel. 00:01:52.080,00:01:53.210 That way people know you have one. 00:01:53.610,00:01:55.710 With a price tag of just under $2,600 00:01:56.120,00:01:58.260 for the lowest end MacBook Wheel, it is an investment. 00:01:58.940,00:02:02.530 But, the super thin laptop features numerous innovations like the new ultra-tin 00:02:02.960,00:02:06.700 Hummingbird Battery, which can power the MacBook Wheel for a full 19 minutes, 00:02:07.090,00:02:08.190 before needing to be recharged. 00:02:08.630,00:02:11.270 And the computer is virtually unbreakable unless dropped or hit. 00:02:11.700,00:02:13.170 But Apple isn't resting on its laurels. 00:02:13.670,00:02:16.440 Brian Gilman said they are already hard at work at the next generation 00:02:16.870,00:02:19.240 of the MacBook Wheel, which will be 4 ounces lighter, 00:02:19.640,00:02:21.580 due to its lack of screen hard driver wheel. 00:02:22.240,00:02:24.340 For the Onion News Network, I'm Jeff Tate. 00:02:24.810,00:02:25.440 Thank you for that, Jeff. 00:02:25.880,00:02:27.820 It remains to be seen if the wheel will catch on in the business world, 00:02:28.250,00:02:31.890 where people use computers for actual work, and not just dicking around. 00:02:32.280,00:02:37.320 Moving on, police warn that the Sudoku killer will kill either 1,4 or 9 victims next. 00:02:39.860,00:02:43.220 Mother at Fault For Stillborn Baby, Reports Recurring Nightmare