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MacSaber Turns Your Macbook into a Lightsaber

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the macs-and-other-jedi-mind-tricks dept.

Petey_Alchemist writes "SomethingAwful.com forum goon isnoop has developed a useless but fun app that takes advantage of the new sudden motion sensor available in Macbooks. The MacSaber 1.0 causes your Macbook or Macbook Pro to whoosh and crash like a lightsaber depending on how you swing it around. The reviews from those who have installed it say it is quite fun--although there is some concern about whether or not 'lightsaber battles' fall under warranty."

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  1. Re:Suggested mods by Original+Replica · · Score: 4, Insightful

    or yell for help if someone moves it without disabling an anti-theft program.

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  2. I must say by random_amber · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I couldn't access the site (see below), but it sounds extremely bad ass. Definitely is a selling point for me to see if I get a Mac this time around or not. It's been so precariously balanced for years...always in favor of NOT getting one, but this year with the Intel changes and lightsaber capability I'd have to say that I may as well get a MacBook for the wifey.

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  3. Well.. by outz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hear they run hotter than a light saber.

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  4. Re:Use the Force Indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Perhaps Mac put this out intentionally

    I don't think this "Mac" entity of which you speak did. Apple might have, though.

  5. Re:fat kid swinging a macbook QWZX by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Kid gets an instant ticket to (in)fame, and he cries about it, because he's fat and awkward, and looks goofy. Ridiculous.

    Yes, the fat people always have to play the clowns for the skinnies right? Dance for us fat boy, dance. Your awkward movements amuse us. Maybe he didn't feel comfortable with people laughing AT him and not with him.

  6. meh by syncrotic · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As a thinkpad owner, it's kind of annoying to see apple getting so much credit for something that IBM has been doing for three years. Actually, this seems to be a recurring theme: mac fans (and apple marketing) smugly claim that apple went and showed all the PC-manufacturing scum how to build a proper intel-based laptop. These people have obviously never held a thinkpad.