Do you, MacBook Pro, take this Hermione to be your lawfully wedded wife?

We're not sure about the authenticity of this video or if this is truly love at first iSight, but Macenstein featured the story about this young British woman, 24 year-old Hermione Way, who unofficially married her MacBook Pro "Alex" on January 31st.

Yes, that's correct. Unofficially married, because the U.K. (and probably every other country on the planet) refuses to recognize the legality of human / computer marriages. Hermione, who just happens to be the bloggess behind Techfluff.tv, would love to change all that. Her video blog entry shows both Hermione and Alex, a fascinating treatise on human / computer relations, and even has her Mum saying that she "...just wants Hermione to be happy." There's even talk of children in the future; the flesh and blood type, not little iPads running around.

Whether you're a romantic at heart who would love to marry your computer -- and let's face it, we spend more time conversing with them than we do many of our human relations -- or if you think this is just a prank, the video is worth a watch.

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Source: http://techfluff.tv/2010/01/14/worlds-first-computer-to-huma…

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bostontechgear

Hope she got the AppleCare

April 16 2010 at 3:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Lozz

I Can't believe you bought this!

February 08 2010 at 8:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

justinleonftw

This is a waste of a blog entry. Seriously. All you are doing is giving a so called "tech goddess" attention.

This video is so lame.

February 05 2010 at 7:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jyuichi

My biggest issues with this are that she named it after the Text-to-Speech voice she uses.
Also unibody 13" "pros" are fairly new. The couple ought to date a bit longer before going out and getting married. :-/

Kidding aside, I think this is intended as a harmless publicity stunt. However I find her putting man-machine marriage on the same level as gay marriage quite insulting.

February 05 2010 at 4:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Galley

It's OK to love your MacBook Pro, just don't LOVE your MacBook Pro.

February 05 2010 at 1:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

staniks

Damn Cylon hybrids!

February 05 2010 at 12:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

DIGITALUnderworld

What happens when a new Macbook Pro that can "preform" better comes out? Will she cheat?

February 05 2010 at 10:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andy

It's a prank, I don't doubt that for a second. We Brits don't tend to hanker after marrying inanimate objects unlike a few Americans who turned up on Jerry Springer wanting to marry such things as washing machines.

That said, her referencing gay people wanting to marry as being much the same as she says she wants to do - marry a laptop - is downright offensive. Wanting legal recognition of a loving relationship with another flesh and blood human being is in no way comparable to marrying a machine.

As a prank it falls flat in many ways, while being occasionally kind of funny. But unfortunately for her, there is an underlying idiocy of mind revealed in the scripting and the off-camera male comment that she "needs a man" to open the window is a kind of sexism that, even if someone is trying to be ironic overall, by, um, using sexist commentary to try to expose that sexism is a pile of do, sadly doesn't manage to come across as witty or clever.

Overall, it's a big fail. It's clumsy and very sad.

February 05 2010 at 3:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

waiownsyou

Someone should've at least invested in a Pro

February 04 2010 at 11:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

KoseKid

You know whats going to happen. 10 years from now when Alex is showing his age she is going to walk into another apple store, and Alex's little brother is going to all grown up... Poor Alex!

February 04 2010 at 8:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply