
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
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A satirical Onion News Network piece announcing the 'MacBook Wheel', a laptop with no keyboard where users type by spinning and clicking a wheel. It parodies Apple product launches and minimalist design.
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HN uses it as a recurring punchline whenever a device removes keys or buttons in favor of touch or novelty controls.
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Read original comment ↗Perhaps G+ should substitute all comment boxes with dropdown menus It would help with data hygiene. It would also integrate nicely with a no-keyboard computer. [VIDEO] "The aardvark admitted its fault."
Read original comment ↗I'm surprised. I thought Apple would have been the first to bring something like this to mobile since they already have a similar concept for laptops. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗This stuff always brings me back to "there's nothing more simple than one giant button" [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Watching the apple event and the various demos of the touch bar reminded me of this onion video from 2009: [VIDEO] I really needed a macbook upgrade (I've been using the same machine since 2008), but I have a feeling that the touch bar will fail and be removed in the next generation of macbooks. But buying the macbook without the touch bar means settling for lesser specs (and given that I'm thinking about buying a machine that would last me another 8 years it feels like a bad choice).
Read original comment ↗That reminds me of this fake ultimate apple ad. It's not exactly the following video, but maybe it helps remembering it: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Do you even vi? Remove everything! Here's a link to the pic of the keyboard for which vi was originally designed on: [LINK] I completely agree with your post. Removing the home/end & function keys is such a waste given the amount of free space for keys on every single notebook ever made. edit: I realized I hadn't taken my initial argument to complete absurdity, "Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard": [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗I think they'll address it by eliminating the keyboard entirely à la the MacBook Wheel[0], albeit perhaps with a touch screen. From an absolute, ergonomic standpoint, it will suck. But soft keys won't fail or get crud in them like hard keys do, and Gruber will soon be writing thinkpieces about how the keyboard is the most failure-prone part of a computer, and the complaints about recent MBP keyboards are inherent failings of hardware keyboards themselves rather than Apple skimping on quality, and Apple is taking the lead in something the industry should have done a long time ago by eliminating the hardware keyboard. [0] [VIDEO]
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