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In light of the new Apple product being announced, I present one of my favorite Onion videos of all time…. The MacBook Wheel!
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In light of the new Apple product being announced, I present one of my favorite Onion videos of all time…. The MacBook Wheel!
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My favourite is the Mactini:
https://youtu.be/BGGOn-H7s3Q
The headlines from the ticker underneath are great too.
Funny how relevant this still is 14 years later (’23)
but did the agile amiable alligator get the absinthe?
A fuckin classic, laughed so hard when I first saw this video
You can see the battery go down! Such a classic
This video came out when I was a little kid and I thought it was real and was so confused at the time
“I like how the email I sent says “Sent from a MacBook Wheel” so that people know I have a MacBook Wheel.”
I hope they finally caught The Sudoku Killer.
It’s incredible how Apple produces some of the dumbest and most overpriced shit in technology and at the same time my m1 macbook is the best computer I’ve ever owned and really decently priced too.
Not Apple, but a personal [Onion favorite of mine](https://youtu.be/8AyVh1_vWYQ) in the same vein
“*Everything* is just a few hundred clicks away” 💀
Wow, comparing the quality of that video to the stuff the Onion puts out now, it’s sad to see how far they have fallen.
[iRack](https://youtu.be/MgSQA1jqFpM)
Brilliant sketch by MadTV
“The police warn that the sudoku killer will kill either 1, 4, or 9 victims next.”
*Edited for accuracy
14 years old and still relevent.
Hummingbird battery, butterfly keyboard, what will they think of next?
The MacBook wheel is virtually indestructible unless dropped or hit.
My then girlfriend now wife totally believed it was a real thing. She was so infatuated with Apple products.
This was a joke, until everyone had to set up the first apple tv and it was reality.
This, and [Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ&feature=share) were my first encounters with Onion videos, and to this day are among my all-time favorites.
The aardvark admitted its fault.
The aardvark admitted it was wrong.
The aardvark asked for an aardvark.
The aardvark asked for a dagger.
The aardvark asked for health.
The aardvark asked for a ride.
The absinthe arrived by airmail.
The abortion went well.
The actor asked for an aardvark.
The actor asked for abstinance.
The actor asked for redemption.
The advertisement was effective.
The agile aardvark arrived by airmail.
The agile aardvark bathed with beauties.
The agriculture was cultivated by the coral.
The aggravated driver beeped on his horn.
The aggravated rooster scratched the dirt.
The Althusserian scholar gave his copy of Lacan’s “Ecrits” to the abortion doctor.
The amiable Althusserian scholar asked the aardvark for an absinthe.
The amiable crocodile brushed his teeth with a toothbrush.
The admirable doctor performed the operation admirably.
The annex was covered with asbestos.
The annex was crawling with beetles.
The apple was airmailed by the doctor.
The apple was consumed by the amiable crocodile.
The apple was inquiring about the amiable crocodile’s friend.
The aquamarine lifevest was not used.
The ass asked for a better absinthe.
The ass brayed at the moon.
The assumptive doctor did not accept our personal check.
The assumptive agricultural expert eyed our absinthe suspiciously.
The attractive peanut farmer graded the term paper.
The attractive rooster preened its feathers to attract absinthe.
The auxiliary generator has malfunctioned!
The awning covered the agile aardvark during the amiable rainstorm.
The awning was too tall to touch.
The babbling baby asked the aardvark for some absinthe.
The babbling baby baked brownies with the amiable crocodile.
The babbling baby basked in its mother’s affections.
The babbling baby bounced the ball at a babbling brook.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jpallan/3623959350
My favorite is the stupid box thing that doesn’t do the godamn thing it’s fucking supposed to.
The attractive peanut farmer graded the term paper.
https://i.imgur.com/OxQxih4.jpg
Just a split second of screen time and it’s perfect.
The $7k jump in price for the next model up is barely an exaggeration.
I’ve never been able to find the video, but I loved Mad TV’s introduction of the Apple I: It’s a sphere made of precious metals and has four equally spaced holes on the back, and they never tell you what it does.
Shut up and take my money! I’ll buy anything shiny and new from Apple!
The onion is the best. One of the few things keeping me sane in this crazy world we live in
Twelve years ago I filmed my friends reaction to the macbook wheel. He thought it was real and was blown away by apple’s innovation. Comedy gold https://youtu.be/qsFCkMbW6QU
I worked at an Apple Store for a long ass time. When this video came out, this little kid ate the onion and came up to me asking if we had a MacBook Wheel he could try. Poor little dude was crestfallen when I had to tell him that video was a joke.
[My personal favorite is MADtv doing the iPad before the iPad was a thing.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs)
Ngl the original ipod wheel was revolutionary.
“I’ll buy almost anything if it’s shiny and made by Apple”
Still makes me laugh so many years later.
Where I live there’s a shop called The Type Space that sells/repairs/teaches about antique typewriters. They have a few models of old attempts at this kind of thing. Different models had different wheel type mechanisms. Here’s a picture of an old Lambert wheel typewriter. [https://www.instagram.com/p/CpqnHpEP0uH/](https://www.instagram.com/p/CpqnHpEP0uH/)
They’ve got another name than typewriter that I can’t remember and there were a few different methods the wheel used.
Lambert started as a gramophone company I think, so the wheel kind of makes sense for them. I’m sure there’s an antique typewriting subreddit that could explain this better than me and knows the proper words.
I just thought the idea was funny b/c it was something that we had a historical example of.
“It’s virtually unbreakable unless dropped or hit.”
Take my money.
Personally, I prefer [Samsung Apex.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvCGqhShNnk)
I don’t use Apple or follow them, what new Apple product was announced?
Funny story, I was a kid when this came out and I legitimately thought it was real, thinking it was an innovation in simplicity or something
I love this and “Sony releases new stupid piece of shit”
The production values and voicing are so spot-on! 🤣
I used to work in an Apple retail store. The amount of people that came up to me asking to see the MacBook Wheel was on display was unreal. I would try to explain that that wasn’t a real product but they would insist that they saw it in on the news and could not be dissuaded.