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Onion News Network: Apple's MacBook Wheel [Humor]
Gizmodo — Oh, Onion News Network! You and your team of reporters never fail to make us laugh with your jabs at Apple. That's a solid 2.5 minutes of funny. [Onion News Network] ...

MacBook Wheel revealed by the Onion News Network
Engadget — ... Filed under: Laptops MacBook Wheel revealed by the Onion News Network originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Introducing "MacBook Wheel" The First Apple Laptop With No Keyboard
iPhone Savior — ... SAN FRANCISCO - Tech Trends reporter Jeff Tate captured this exclusive footage of the new "MacBook Wheel" direct from the Mac Expo. A single clickwheel replacing the obsolete keyboard is pure brilliance. The über slick tag line, "One Button. Endless Possibilities" perfectly addresses what the notebook market has no idea they really need. I feel myself needing it already. Apple will once again change the way the world experiences laptop computing with "The Wheel. Reinvented". ...

ONN reveals Apple’s revolutionary ‘MacBook Wheel’
MacDailyNews — ... Source: The Onion [Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention for the heads up.]

The Onion creates MacBook Wheel parody
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... in pop culture, and the latest one from The Onion is particularly funny. The fictional "MacBook Wheel" replaces the traditional keyboard with a large, touch-sensitive scroll wheel. As the Apple representative demonstrates, typing "...couldn't be simpler." Just use the wheel to scroll from letter to letter via an on-screen keyboard, pressing the center button to make a selection. Easy, right? ...

MacBook Wheel: Apple Replaces Keyboard With One Big Button
Wired: Gadget Lab — "At Apple our philosophy is to create products that are simple to use. And nothing is more simple than a single, giant button." Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard [the Onion via John Nack] ...

Life imitates art: Saturday Night Live predicted new iPod shuffle
Macworld — ... how "thrilled" he was about the new iPod Micro. Holding it in his fingertips, the Micro appears to be not much bigger than a human finger—recall that the new 4G shuffle is about two inches long. The sketch features this golden exchange: Tina Fey: "But we can barely see it." Fake Steve: "Exactly, and that's exciting." We here at MacUser are now expecting the new  MacBook Wheel  sometime in 2013. [via  ...

The headphone shuffle
Macworld — ... : Press it once to play or pause playback; twice to skip forward a track; three times to skip back a track; twice and hold it to scan forward; three times and then hold it to scan backward; once and hold it to tell the shuffle to speak the name of the current song; or once and hold it longer to tell the shuffle to speak the names of playlists, using the volume buttons to “scroll” through the list—press Button again to choose a playlist. (I'm reminded of The Onion’s MacBook Wheel parody: a laptop with no keyboard—just a big Click Wheel.) Apple's new control method raises the ...