Apple MacBook Wheel: laptop with no keyboard

Cool….. Just eager to know how we can get our text document or can type website urls….

This is the most stupid “revolutionary” concept ever. If the iPod wheel was so awesome why the need for the iPod touch?

Really, it makes me mad that such a stupid product with a stupid concept will sell like water in the desert for millions of Mac fan boys all over the world.

I really hope it’s a fiasco:

1. Anything that takes (and I quote) “anything is a few hundred clicks away” as a good concept is plain wrong and already dated.
2. Things that take screen real estate to make you able to write something is plain stupid and wrong by principle.
3. Won’t even waste my time to mention the other 1000 flaws that this concept has.

Apple time to wake up, you guys didn’t invented the wheel and you guys will certainly not re-invented using cheap concepts as this one.

If this dictates how future computers will be, we are dommed!

My 2 cents.

Apple is right!

Who need to write in a world where “every1″ is or is becoming analphabets.

Kudos for Steve and all the Apple team for enhancing that effect

Steve WithoutJobs

You actually think this is a real laptop? It’s honestly people like you that make jokes like this actually funny…

This can\’t be real no one in their right mind would buy it for any thing but a DVD player and why do that if you can buy a Portable DVD player for $60.

Some of you really need your heads probed for thinking the Mac Book Wheel is real, have you no humor at all or see the humor?
ha ha “Everything is just a few hundred clicks away” get it?

I want one

45min for an email and 20min of battery that is the best computer in the world. It should have a better price tag, like 50k$, 2k$ is just plain cheap. It will never sell at that price not hype enough

I love the concept “Everything is just few hundred clicks away” :p Well done

Ok maybe not good enough to make programs, but who care, computer doesn’t need to be programmed anymore. I bet their next goal will be a brain attached interface. Da B3$T 4pp£3

omg u seriously think this is real its a onion news video and then if u pay attention he says they are workin on a new version that its lighter BECAUSE IT HAS NO SCREEN,CLICK WHEEL OR BATTERY!!!.

This design is so dumb…I like the wheel, but not as the primary function for the actual labtop.

-Thousands of people are going to hate this product so much that they will actualey buy an external keyboard for it
-I would preper if they kept the current system but added the wheel to the bottom right portion of the macbook (to the left of the touch pad) this would add for the “kick ” that apple is looking for without the problems!

*to the right of the touch pad

It’s a joke folks! Peel back the layers – it’s Onion.

Some people are so gullible.

This is a joke. Has anyone caught onto that yet? You’re not all idiots, are you?

This is clearly a joke, as the onion network always is. Anyone who believes this is a fool. Nobody (especially Steve Jobs) would be dumb enough to get rid of the keyboard.

Crap! I was getting ready to wait 3 to 15 months.

cmon guys, think of how ridiculous it is. also, i don’t think a news anchor would say “dicking around”.

my mom fell for this haha

I’m losing my faith in humanity by reading some of the comments.

This is so dumb and fake but if it is real who wants to type on something that will take you like 50 min

Um…they said it was a joke, relax.

I love Apple but the price seems a bit high. i am sur they will fix the time for emails 45 minits is a lot. if they can get it down to 15 that is improvmnt

its gotta be fake kos mac woodent make a computer that shitty

honestly i’ve been a macboy fan since too many years ago.. but you guys .. what a hell were u been thinking>?>>.. this thing hasnt any sense

what are you guys talking about? i’m typing this right now on a macbook wheel prototype, this shit is awesome

The joke still works, you guys should go see the new film Titanic 2.
Even Apple says this was a funny joke.

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my life, why would you want to type on a wheel? Do you realize how long it would take to type an email, URL, or an essay?? This is a dumb way to make life difficult and make people broke. There is no way this is a real product, If it is. It proves our society is full of idiots that will empty their banks for shiny toys.

It’s fake you idiots.

i think it is stupid. and pointless. and would be really hard to type and it would take a long time.

There is so much greatness in this video! The promo poster headlines and the box design with the wheel spotlight underneath the laptop are so perfectly Apple. Bravo!

This is just what Windows users want. I wish I would have thought of it.

You’re an idiot. It’s called a joke, dumbass.

I wuld just like to say to all those using their bandwidth to tear down, look what they did when the tireless car, the waterless lemonade, the airless basketball, the knifeless artherotoscopy. Apple is prophetic. I am to guess that those who write so much against it dont have one but want one. a wheel-keyboard is an idea whose time is not yet.

“I’ll buy anything that’s shiny and made by Apple.”

well you can actually go away with the wheel aswell with voice recognition software why use the wheel, if posibble

What more do you need to tell you it’s fake? It’s the ONION people. Geez.

Yeah, well, Survey, if “onion” is such an unreliable site why should we trust YOU when you use it? huh? no one is that stupid

People visit this site merely this site because it’s funny. The know next to nothing is real, just like watching comedy central. Let’s all just calm down and enjoy the joke.

you know this is a fake video and not a real product don’t you?

This is a FAKE newsitem made by FAKE News channel The Onion. It is FAKE. And a JOKE. And so ridiculous as to be unbelievable. It’s really pathetically obvious.

You folks are really quite stupid, aren’t you?

It’s a joke. The video even says up in the corner it’s from The Onion, a FAKE, SATIRICAL news source.

Lighten up everyone, it’s funny!

-e.slim

Dumbass. ppl cant even take a joke. Steve withoutjobs.. u r a mac idiot!

U rthe stupidest ppl god it can’t be a real!!!!!!!!its a fake product…DUHHHHHHHHHH

im glad this is a joke. but why make it just for a joke? would anyone actually buy it for function? if apple wanted to make something cooler i think a touch keyboard would be awesome.

I’m so getting one as soon as it comes out!

This is a piece of crap. Who would want to spend hours just trying to type a sentence?!?! Why would anyone want to have to scroll over to find each letter. It is not great at all.

Whoa…this is definitely revolutionary but I’m not sure if it’ll catch on. Ditching the keyboard could be a great space saver and make for ultra light portable laptops but I’m not sure the additional “100 clicks” is worth the loss of a laptops primary source of input (the trusty keyboard). The keyboard is tried and tested and I dont think its time to lose it. Like another poster mentioned, maybe its best to introduce a smaller “Wheel” alongside the regular keyboard and break us all in gently.

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I am totally going to buy one, does anyone know when they will be released? I want one so bad, I need it now! THis will be so great!

Wow.

LOL you are so dumb. do you still wonder why you are unemployed? you don’t even know an obvious joke when you see one.

SO INSTEAD OF TYPING WITH ONE HAND WHILE I FAP TO PORN ILL HAVE TO WHEEL WITH ONE HAND

I think its stupid cause it will take forever to type emails or papers. i agree with b jobbs that they should put it at the right of the touch pad. Its kinda like an ipod classic but bigger and heavier. “a few hundred clicks away” on a normal computer its a couple clicks away. And it can only last 19 minutes without being charged. “Unbreakable, unless droped or hit” thats the only way oyu can break it. Then they say it wont have a screen, wheel, or harddrive, isnt that just a box.

I hope you guys are kidding. This is just a scam no real product!

i know but if it was real it would be a really stupid idea

hah, right, just a video to catch some eyes and advertise “something” that we don’t know.

Like the first paragraph said, “The internet is buzzing over Apple’s latest invention, the MacBook Wheel.” They make everyone talk about Apple and what kind of magic they have and how people are so into them with “I buy anything that is SHINING and Apple.”

nice “scientific” video………..

Half of the people commenting on this really funny flick from the Onion News Network actually believe this is serious, and that Apple is actually making a MacBook Wheel. Hilarious!

This really goes to show that Americans, and/or Apple fans are a lot more stupid than most people, and there’s little hope for improvement. Remember, you guys even re-elected George W Bush !!!

It’s spelled doomed not dommed!

The fact is, there probably would be a ton of people that would buy this just because it’s “shiny and made by Apple”.

Well, I think there are more Apple followers who voted for Obama. Most are College students that spend $2000 on a laptop so they can send emails and use Microsoft Word. They would buy the Apple Wheel, and just about anything else the Media sells them.

onion news network is fake and you canit say di(king)on tv

this is awesome man never imagine stuff like that

People…… ITS A JOKE!!!! They’re making fun of the fact that people will buy just about anything for the brand name.

when it shows steve jobs introducing the laptop its so obvious that the screen didnt show the wheel because of how huge it is!

it is most probably a rumor

“Apple are alreaddy hard at work with the next generation of Macbook Wheel, which will be 4ounces lighter due it’s lack of screen, hard drive or wheel”
how do people honestly believe this?

Obviously its fake, and whoever thought it was real knows its fake by now, so just stop talking about it.

Lol, you’re right, people that believe it are the ones who make it funny..

Why do a laptop that’s just going to be a huge ipod? They just need to do the Apple tablet so that you can just type and use your finger right on the screen to use the computer.

I read in a recent report released by Apple that they’ve now been able to increase the performance of writing an average e-mail from 45 minutes to 38 minutes. I’m really looking forward to this!

how are we supposed to do things efficiently with this thing?

“I would like to send an email from a macbook wheel, because everyone would know I have one.” hahahaha

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Dude, don't you understand that this is a joke? Apple is not releasing anything like this. Fuck, people need to read the comments above. This is sad.

this is just like a laptop version of ipod classic
i bet next thing apple is going to make will be a laptop with only a screen,calling it a Macbook Screen.HAHA

I am typing on a Macbook Wheel right now#) Shoutouts to all apple f@ns out there! Screw Microsof44 Oh yeah, guess how l0ng it took m(( to type this messag1?

>>>Sent from a Macbook Wheel

Big flop in view? Add the wheel on a keyboard (HP did that on some iPaq) could be a nice idea, but without keyboard, the limitations are too importants.
If they find another way to type text, perhaps, but in this state, it can't be easily used as a computer.

I4U, I disagree with you, the reason why I am a Mac user is because I like things to be simple, as simple as possible, and if Steve Job removed the keyboard from the latest mac book is because its cumbersome to use it and replaced it with one button instead that wont be confusing for any one.

Now, you ask me? which is better and easier, a whole bunch of keys in your laptop, or just ONE damn key that does EVERYTHING!

This is why I love Macintosh products, because they are the best and they make simple, easy to use things, for us simple minded, non technical users, to use with no problems.

I know that I will be sacrificing time some times but the ease to use pays it self a thousand fold.

I am eager to wait for the product to hit store shelves.

Oh, by the way, I plan to be a reseller of the Mab Wheel, its time for Windows users to switch to Mac.

I am surprised that someone thought of this idea, then I am surprised that a team of people decided to implement this idea, I am typing this comment so quick that it will take an hour on this toy to type.
My 4 year old kid's toy laptop is better than this one.

A person with ZERO typing skills will type faster than this "wheel".

I can call it as : "Upgraded version of IPod with functionality to type". I think i agree if someone commented that this is the dumbest think I have ever seen in my life…

I am surprised that someone thought of this idea, then I am surprised that a team of people decided to implement this idea, I am typing this comment so quick that it will take an hour on this toy to type.