“My friend over at Phonetag, James Siminoff, thought it would be funny to hand over a Macbook Air as a ‘gift’ after we cut a cake for my birthday. I immediately used it to cut the cake, it’s so damn sharp it did a fine job. People thought it was funny enough to blog. So before this thing spreads, I thought I’d explain myself: It was a combination of wine and a hand rolled cigar that did this,” Rahul Sood, CTO for HP’s Global Gaming Business.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: What an excellent way to demo Apple’s “thinnovation!”
MacDailyNews Note: No, he’s not wearing an HP shirt.
Just proving that the MacBook Air takes the cake…
Earlier, they used a Zune to cut the cheese.
But is it sharp enough to cut through a tin can and yet still fine enough to slice a tomato?
HP has a gaming business?
I wish James Siminoff was my friend.
“Let them eat cake!”
@ bjh
That was brilliant.
“Earlier, they used a Zune to cut the cheese.”
But the cheese bent the Zune!
yes, yes, but does it blend?
What’s more important HP people give Apple’s as gifts, not HPs.
that’s Apples, not Apple’s, sorry
The Zune always seemed a bit bent anyway.
This the stupidest sh#t I’ve seen in a while…
@ron
for your explanation: “to cut the cheese” means to fart (slang).
So: “they used a Zune to cut the cheese” is a good one! LOL
The first thing I thought of when I saw the Air was that it could be used as a throwing star the shuriken, or used as a replacement for the hat in that Bond movie Dr. No (guessing movie here).
As in married to the danger.
Dangerous…
That’s Oddjob’s hat in Goldfinger.
1) Gaming? Huh?
2) HP is trying to sell its own Wintel machines. The latest, a subnotebook that is trying to compete with the Air.
3) This CTO is going to be in hot water, if not already.
Tacky.
Now that’s just gauche.
It’s a cake. Anything can cut a cake. A CD, USB cable, the Razr, my finer…
“…a hand rolled cigar… “
– Oh, so THAT’S what the kids are calling them these days!
That is the way to void your warranty
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How do you explain this to the Apple Store Genius?
Sweeeeet!
@ One guy from Finland.
Eve made me do it!
Sure anything thin can cut a cake. That’s the point, the MacBook Air is thin enough to cut cake. Even someone drink and stoned figured that one out. Duh. Try cutting cake with your Dell laptop.
With Apple you can have your cake and eat it too!
What a waist of $1800. I know, I am cheap!
What a retard!
He’s messing with Apple like DELL did. Look at DELL now. Don’t mess with the Apple… hehe
Many people knew the MBA was on the cutting edge poised to carve a bigger slice of the market. A blade server would probably have worked as well. Just a tip.
That’s a seriously tacky apartment in the background, complete with underwashed doggy bed on splotched carpets. So… who licked the Air clean?
Hey HP…how do you like them apples?
Showing once again that other PC companies just cannot cut the mustard….
when you say . . . “hand rolled cigar” . . . .you mean fat BLUNT right?????
One guess as to what was in that “hand-rolled cigar”!
He knew better than to use a Dell laptop since his guests would’ve found pubes on their cake!
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@Ampar
I about fell out of my seat when I read your comment. Bravo.
Maybe we can get a set of six steak knives with every two MacBooks purchased?
grh:”Maybe we can get a set of six steak knives with every two MacBooks purchased?’
Maybe, but you’ll get a spankin’ brad new manila envelope for it or was that a cake pan?
Call now and get both for free! Our guarantee:
Pube, spyware, adware, virus, bloatware free! Not sure if it’s fat or sugar free! LOL 😀
This is so American. Did they have a hot-dog eating contest as well?
There is a food shortage crisis in the world, yet HP execs cut cakes with laptops. Decadent. Sick.
Seems like a waist of a perfectly good MacBook to me. Not to mention the cake.
Wish I could afford a Macbook Airl. I shure wouldn’t abuse it.