Apple Introduces The MacBook Wheel, A Laptop Without a Keyboard

by Scott Beale on January 5, 2009 · 21 comments

Apple has just announced the MacBook Wheel, an innovative new laptop with a touch-sensitive click wheel instead of a traditional keyboard. The 40GB model is only $9,960!

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{ 21 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Ted R. January 5, 2009 at 6:09 pm

LOLz!

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2 Tom January 5, 2009 at 6:29 pm

Wtf?! Is this a joke?!?! Price, 45 minutes for an email, scrolling for each letter, ridiculous looking, ‘dicking around’, wtf?! This cannot be for real.

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3 Shatter January 5, 2009 at 6:45 pm

Gotta be a gag. Love it.

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4 emily k January 5, 2009 at 6:51 pm

me clicky the wheel ha ha lol faceplant durr leave house looks like dvd

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5 madcaow January 5, 2009 at 8:14 pm

hhaha hilarious. big ups the onion.

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6 8-Bit Jay January 5, 2009 at 8:25 pm

If they ship by E3, I will be using this for my liveblogging of the 3 major press conferences.

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7 Aimee Greeblemonkey January 5, 2009 at 9:06 pm

the onion makes my day almost every day.

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8 thomas romer January 5, 2009 at 9:07 pm

Oh man… i can’t pause the video to read those “predictive” sentences. I can see a bunch of sentences about aardvarks and abortion. The background stuff is sometimes the best part of Onion Video.

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9 Elizabeth January 5, 2009 at 9:41 pm

LMAO!!! I love the lucky guy who spent 45 min typing an email!

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10 Yunizu January 5, 2009 at 9:55 pm

tom=not the sharpest bulb in the box of rocks.

(BTW Onion is a satire media source.)

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11 Adam January 5, 2009 at 10:14 pm

Wow. That was possibly the best made skit ever. Awesome job!

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12 Jonathan January 6, 2009 at 7:16 am

Macbook Wheel? What is this? Is Apple trying to get themselves less of the market than they have now? God, what a stupid idea!

Nobody wants to spend no 00:45:00 writing one single email missive, no matter how trivial!

A Regular keyboard and the the current technology makes things go so much faster than that!

This can’t be real….
And I betcha any money it ISN’T…

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13 Scott Beale January 6, 2009 at 9:01 am

Aw come on Jonathan, don’t knock it until you at least used one in person. I would suggest a visit to your local Apple store to try it out.

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14 Carla January 6, 2009 at 9:20 am

I got word on another model Apple too. Check out the Mactini.

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15 Vincent Vitale January 6, 2009 at 6:29 pm

macbook air, ok.. macbook wheel. LOL… macbook stick , fook YEAH

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16 Ans January 6, 2009 at 7:54 pm

I was actually fooled…for 20 minutes. Good work to whoever made this!

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17 Steve Clay January 7, 2009 at 7:08 am

I’ve got screencaps of the Predictive Sentence technology…

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18 im Bob January 8, 2009 at 4:51 am

It’s a joke folks! Onion -peel back the layers.

Folks are sooo gullible.

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19 Patrick March 5, 2009 at 1:11 pm

That would take a lot of getting used to. o.o

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20 Wai March 24, 2009 at 1:17 pm

everything is just a few hundred clicks away

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21 Yakko March 25, 2009 at 4:36 pm

I seriously think that the macbook wheel is an inevitable evolution of mac products and would be a serious idea if your were completely computer illiterate. I mean it’s a giant ipod!!

Too bad this were a parody because i think it would be absolutely hilarious to watch someone really wheel themselves an email and have it take an hour! It could be reprogrammed to be way more efficient as well if it were REAL. Apple could also incorporate a touch type keyboard and a wheel on the keyboard like where the touch pad would be and you would have actually something usable. If apple wants to rule the computing world, make it great and inexpensive and people will want it.

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