Apple Introduces "MacBook Wheel"

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."

Comments

Ligfhten up dude. /. did. :-)

[crovira]

Personally, I thought it was a bit of a waste of space but its "The Onion" what else could is be?

Re:Why is this on the -/ frontpage?

[jayhawk88]

Oh noes, it took up almost 2 cm of your screen when you opened Slashdot, and perhaps as much as 3 minutes of your opening morning avoid-work browsing to view the video, however will you recover from such trauma?

Timing is everything

[malice]

I'm sure this being on the front page of /. has nothing to do with the Macworld Expo keynote that takes place in a matter of hours...

Re:The really sad thing about this...

[ari_j]

Try writing and formatting a 20-page brief, 150-page thesis, or a thousand 2-page letters on your cell phone if you need any proof that the full keyboard is here to stay.

Oh, and then, after you finish all that, try to write a speech recognition program without using a keyboard.

Re:This doesn't belong here

[PK_ERTW]

So, any topic that shows up on 'idle' is banned from appearing on the front page?

This is a story that clearly belongs in idle. It is also, in one dudes opinion, from the top of that pile. So if the category exists, does the cream of it not belong on the front page?

PK