The Onion creates MacBook Wheel parody

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'm just a few hundred clicks away from buying this wonderful nightmare machine.

HA! ...anyone read the scrolling text at the bottom? The first three are funny!!

this was hilarious...i loved it...and thank you for bring it to me TUAW...

dont listen to that meany head that was putting you down...

some people just live on their computers every min of every day...

oh thats me...and i didnt see that anywhere else...lol

love you TUAW

At the rate Apple is going by 2011 this will be a reality.

"...virtually unbreakable unless dropped or hit"

I thought this was hilarious. On a different note, I watched this last night and this morning - well before TUAW posted this article. I come to TUAW for good mac-centric information. Why is it though that TUAW seems to be always (or nearly always) late to the game. Engadget, your sister site, posts these things well before you. I'm not complaining, I'm trying to provide some constructive criticism for TUAW's benefit. I'm worried that one of my favorite sites will lose readers to other sites that provide news and information more quickly. If that happens, especially in these troubled times, I expect TUAW will suffer greatly. I don't want this.

Unfortunately, I do not have any idea about your current business model, your business organization, staffing, or resources so I cannot provide any reasonable suggestions for curing this problem. Instead, I want to make sure that you, TUAW, are aware of this problem so that you, having the most information to correct the problem, can do so.

One small detail of that parody that I think is actually an awesome idea is being able to touch a key and bring up a row of special characters using that key.

My favorite moment: "Everything is just a few hundred clicks away".

WOW. that was awesome, they nailed everything- even the quotes at the bottom saying sjobs thinks keyboards are holding back human progress. ROFL

holding down both sides of the button and clicking the middle? ahahahah