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Kind of reminds me of the new iCal version for Leopard!

MDN Magic Word: 'open' as in click to select, click to open, click yet again, to edit...

HI-larious..

Oh God, don't give them any ideas! Please, no!

Jan 06, 09 - 08:20 am Comment from: David Calado

Everything you want to do is within several hundred clicks! Priceless bit of parody here!

Jan 06, 09 - 08:27 am Comment from: CheekyGit

With 2 of them and a few thousand audio files, a DJ could do some serious scratching and save a lot money on turntables, mixers, etc.

Vinyl records can finally be put to rest.

<sarcasm>

very very funny.
"to reduce energy use, the screen goes black after 4 seconds" and the hummingbird battery that lasts for just under 19 minutes.

excellent parody, packed with goodies.... watch the scrolling news ticker at the bottom of the screen too! Hilarious!

Looks like a wheely good idea, I'm glad they got around to it, Hi-Tech has finally come full circle.

Jan 06, 09 - 08:59 am Comment from: Ouate de Phoque

@SKYLARK

Thanks for the well rounded answer.

this would be even more painful than the smarphone keyboards! Omg i can't believe that! Is this real? That's a shame!

What I want to know is...
Is it snappy?

Man, this is ****ing brilliant! The logos, the faux real settings, the geek who will buy anything if it's "shiny and made by Apple", the deadpan seriousness. And that last line about "the business world where computers are used for real work and not just for dicking around." Cracked me up!

"I'll buy almost anything that's shiny and made by Apple."
Sounds like all the fanatical MacBook owners that now scorn firewire and non-glossy screens.

It sounds more like how MS would do things in trying to jump ahead of Apple.

Jan 06, 09 - 10:12 am Comment from: HMCIV

Man, the Onion's gonna get slapped with a trade secrets lawsuit quick!

Jan 06, 09 - 10:12 am Comment from: Grigori

With the impending Schiller Keynote, this may be the funniest thing I see all day.

Jan 06, 09 - 10:17 am Comment from: TowerTone

That onion made me cry.

(hey, Amp)

Jan 06, 09 - 10:21 am Comment from: Zune Tang®

I just love to burst your MAC lemming bubble. I already saw this in the lab in Redmond years ago when uncle Steve was in one of his better moods and had us visit for lunch. Research showed the wheel was too confusing for MBAs and C level staff to navigate. Microsoft has since moved on to the much more intuitive and Zune inspired squircle with left- and right-click buttons as well as modifier buttons at the side of the device. Customers can customize the side buttons to launch Internet Explorer, Outlook or whatever. Suck it, Apple.

I'm a PC.

Your potential. Our passion.™

I don't think this is for real. Click wheel is not ideal (if not appropriate) for such a gross-motor interaction...

Jan 06, 09 - 10:40 am Comment from: DLMeyer

A perfect response to all those "predictions" seen ... well, everywhere. I was actually most of the way through before my horror was replaced by amused relief! Very well made, excellent script, great presentations. Scary - SCARY - thought.

Can't you just be banned or something?

I've read the Onion for over 15 years and am amazed at how clever the writing is. Equally amazed that so many fools just don't get it. It is rare to find such over the top parody that hits the mark. For those who have not followed the Onion, you should check it out regularly - we need to laugh at life more often.

....as the guy said....I will buy anything shiny and made by Apple.

Ain't that the truth!

MDN = MacDickin'aroundNews

Jan 06, 09 - 03:06 pm Comment from: ken1w

The bit about using "the predictive sentence technology" (with the absurd list of possible sentence choices) was very amusing. Whoever did the graphics on the MacBook Wheel screen to match what was being done on the "big wheel and button" did a fantastic job.

That MacBook Wheel is "Snappy".

Jan 06, 09 - 04:53 pm Comment from: Road Warrior

Well Zune Thang, I am glad you love to burst the bubble, cause it's something that the new prototype Mac is using and you burst it when you want to send a command. Soon everyone will be bursting with joy.

So you were over at the Redmond lab for lunch. I hope Ballmer ate you out real good. I heard the squircle idea came when Microscum tried to photocopy the wheel, putting a round peg through a square hole is one of the things you call innovation. I am sure it will be a great device on all the computers made by Microsoftie, except of course they haven't figured out how to make a computer yet. But keep trying.