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An on-screen widget for the new MacBook Air showing a cool "brushed metal" analogue dial marked with a scale from "really thin" to "thick" with the indicator needle permanently pointing to "really thin".
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Ha. About as useful as anything else borne from the 'widget' concept. |
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And surely it should be in that shiny plastic 'aqua' look - brushed steel is soooo 2003. |
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Bah, I thought it was for measuring pressure/altitude/CO. |
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What happens if the air thickens? |
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You might need an air thickness bag. |
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In parentheses under "Thickness" it could say "(Likelihood of it snapping in half)". I could probably hammer in tent pegs with my Dell laptop without any ill effects. |
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£1200 for a computer with no VGA port? I think not, Mr. Jobs. |
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Does the widget also measure the user...? |
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What, exactly, is a VGA port? And how
have I managed without one these long
years? |
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I'm going to bone this because it is apple fanboy masturbation. |
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I think it was intended to take the piss out of the whole "My Apple is better than your Window" bullshit thingy, [mylodon]. |
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This is just stupid because in the future they will be even thinner... unless something like "super thin" is added to the scale after "really thin". |
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"The dial on my thinness indicator goes to -1" |
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I'm waiting until they release all four elements. |
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I'm waiting for the MacBook Æther - "Look, it's great isn't it?", "What? Where is it?", "Right there! Can't you see it?", "No"
I think (as [UB] suggests) [mylodon] might have missed something about this idea... |
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The Emperor's new MacBook. |
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For sure, [hippo], but "apple fanboy masturbation" is a great turn of phrase. |
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[wagster], it also seems to be a unique phrase. |
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// Your search - "apple fanboy masturbation" - did not match any documents. // |
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I think that's because the last word is largely redundant. |
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I think this obsession with thinness in laptops is dangerous. My own impressionable machine has now decided it's too fat and is refusing to eat data and discs. It's lost 2GB in a month. I keep plugging in a datastick but the machine just uploads the data when I'm not looking. |
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Let's promote "chunky is healthy", and help young laptops to realise that it's perfectly acceptable to be more than an inch thick and consume data through an optical drive or high speed port. |
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So, if you are fascinated with French cars would that be lemon fanboy masturbation? |
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Cucumber fanboy masturbation, anyone? |
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Could you use one as an altimeter? Perhaps each MacBook could be retrofitted with an altimeter, to increase their usefulness? |
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//altimeter, to increase their usefulness// |
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Or an Alethiometer, that might be quite useful. |
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Along the lines of what boysparks suggests, maybe it's time for the Dell Campaign for Real Beauty. |
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French? Lemons? Cucumbers? |
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Ok I don't understand any of you. |
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Maybe the focus should be on lightness instead of thinness... but I'm not suggesting some giant helium filled laptop either... |
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"Let me have laptops about me that are
fat;
Sleek-topped computers and such as
sleep o' nights:
Yond Mac Air has a lean and hungry
look;
He thinks too much: such products are
dangerous." with apologies to Julius
Caesar. |
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Nah, you're all just jealous. |
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"There, there, you'll be OK, it's just a little fright", <pats [mylodon] on the head, hands him a cucumber> |
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//not suggesting some giant helium filled laptop either...// |
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More fool you!
{I'll be back in a mo} |
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//I could probably hammer in tent pegs with my Dell laptop without any ill effects.// |
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There are other uses for a Dell laptop? |
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Yep. They also make serviceable, though heavy, lap tables for TV dinners. |
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Lapland must be full of laptops. |
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No. Just one really big one. |
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Are MacBook Air owners to be known as 'airheads'? |
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No. Just one really big one. |
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Sort of the exact opposite reading to
that of The President Bush Intelligence
Widget. |
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Maybe there needs to be an iPod Touch obsoleteness indicator. The annoying thing is that I'm perfectly happy and satisfied with only 8GB on mine. |
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