Apple Introduces "MacBook Wheel" 268
CommonCents noted an Apple announcement a few hours before the anticipated keynote. He says "Apples' latest must have gadget does away with the keyboard. With the new MacBook Wheel, Apple has replaced the traditional keyboard with a giant wheel."
The Onion (Score:5, Funny)
Is it just me? (Score:3, Funny)
phone next? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe next they'll invent some way to dial a phone with just some sort of rotary wheel...
Mactini (Score:2, Funny)
This reminds me of the Mactini on the The Peter Serafinowicz Show Christmas Special: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noe3kR8KqJc
Re:phone next? (Score:2, Funny)
Dialing a phone with a rotary wheel will actually be a whole lot easier in my mind than typing an email with a whole wheel. I don't see how this process is faster than me typing exactly what I want. Imagine trying to program with that thing. Predictive text will not be any help with odd variables names and punctuation marks all over the place. This to me is definitely overkill.
2 things put me off on this (Score:5, Funny)
2. The dude that said "I'll buy anything thats shiny made by Apple!"
I know... (Score:4, Funny)
This is a bit "out there", but to be perfectly honest I'd rather use a laptop running VISTA over that silly Macbook Wheel. It will take me more time to type an e-mail on that thing, then it would to send an e-mail on Vista. This is what happens when Steve gets sick, Apple gets desperate for ideas.
Ob ... (Score:5, Funny)
- Yes, iWheel !
10-to-1 (Score:3, Funny)
Next year's big Apple announcement will be the elimination of keyboards from the MacBook Air. Just touch sensitive pads so that we can make it even THINNER!!!!
Re:MacWheel Shuffle (Score:3, Funny)
You could get a cardboard cutout made of yourself to fool the rest of the office.
Leave it to Apple... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The Onion (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why is this on the -/ frontpage? (Score:5, Funny)
MacWorld San Francisco is today. This content is made available to you as part of their 'driving and leveraging for increased consumer experience' toward the '"Idle" supersite subbrand of the Slashdot publishing matrix'.
This post took 119 minutes to write on my new MacBook Wheel.
Re:Yeah (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why is this on the -/ frontpage? (Score:4, Funny)
-/? This is slashdot, not dashslash.
mactini (Score:3, Funny)
Puts me in mind of this recent spoof, by Peter Serafinowicz: http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/348881/d4b348a0/de_mactini.html [dumpert.nl]
Re:The Onion (Score:5, Funny)
The onion, where it's April 1st year round.
And where only Apple could reinvent the Wheel.
Re:phone next? (Score:5, Funny)
Dialing a phone with a rotary wheel will actually be a whole lot easier in my mind than typing an email with a whole wheel. I don't see how this process is faster than me typing exactly what I want. Imagine trying to program with that thing. Predictive text will not be any help with odd variables names and punctuation marks all over the place. This to me is definitely overkill.
It's quick than you think. Suppose you wanted to type Whoosh! to inform someone that they had missed a joke. Once you enter Wh you can just select Whoosh! from the dropdown list.
Re:The Onion (Score:1, Funny)
How do I use Vi editor with this?
Re:2 things put me off on this (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The really sad thing about this... (Score:3, Funny)
I look forward to playing UT2020 by waving my hands in the direction I want to turn and shouting 'fire'.
I'm already training for the steady decline toward inferior input interfaces by playing FPSes on the Wii.
First Post! (Score:5, Funny)
with Macbook Wheel
Re:phone next? (Score:4, Funny)
Hal is working on one of these already - that's why his first sentence has "quick" where the form "quicker" should have been.
Re:I know... (Score:5, Funny)
I think you're missing the real genious here. What Apple/Steve did is simplify the computing experience so that it "just works". If you were to type an email in Vista, you'd have to use the confusing keyboad which has way too many buttons. A common keyboard has about a hundred too many.
Instead, you just flick the wheel around until you get to the character you need, like you would with a safe. That's it, there's just one device you interface with, and everything is a single fluid motion around the wheel. As is often the case, you're just stuck with your old obsolete ways, while Steve has seen the light and wants to share with us all.
Re:I know... (Score:1, Funny)
And that if you type "google" into Google, you'll break the internet!
Re:Why is this on the -/ frontpage? (Score:1, Funny)
...Says the very serious person who calls him/herself "Juggz"
I can't find my car keys. (Score:3, Funny)
How did you Added your own Sentenced, The actor asked for an aardvark. 16uy89; ?
Sent from my MacBook Wheel.
Re:phone next? (Score:1, Funny)
I wrote this comment on the new Wheel thing... took me 45 minutes...
And I'm not a coward... just couln't find the time to log in using the wheel...
Re:The Onion (Score:3, Funny)
You tap 'tip tap tap tip tap tap tip tap tip tip tip tip' which spells 'EMACS' in morse code.
Or, install VIM and then hit ANY key.
Re:The Onion (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The really sad thing about this... (Score:5, Funny)
Computer! rm -rf /var/www/old!
# rm -rf /
#
SHIT!
Steve Jobs ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yeah (Score:1, Funny)
You sound like my wife.
Re:Why is this on the -/ frontpage? (Score:1, Funny)
Take it easy. We won't miss you.
Re:MacWheel Shuffle (Score:4, Funny)
You could get a cardboard cutout made of yourself to fool the rest of the office.
It'd probably be less painfull if you got it made of cardboard.
Re:The Onion (Score:5, Funny)
"Spin the wheel in ANY direction."
"Hey guys, which way is the any direction?"
The more things change...
Re:Instead of scrolling... (Score:3, Funny)
Apostrophe's (Score:3, Funny)
Apples' latest must have gadget
Thi's seem's to have been written by a per'son who ha's no idea where to put hi's apo'strophe's