Apple MacBook Touch Mock-up (PIC)

gizmodo.com — The rumors are starting to mount up as Apple readies new portable designs: first ultra-thin MacBooks, then Newton-concept MacOS X mini-tablets. Here's a concept that marries both ideas: an Apple MacBook Touch. Sep 26, 2007 View in Crawl 4

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nivekic Sep 27, 2007

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Been thinking about getting my mom something... what if she has long nails?

tybaltcpp Sep 27, 2007

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I don't know how to tell you this, but Apple uses the term "physiologicoanatomic" with ostensible confidence that its meaning is universally understood. To get immediately to the point, all the deals Apple makes are strictly one-way. Apple gets all the rights, and the other party gets all the obligations. I respect Apple's bons mots, although its vaporings are more than just sniffish. They're a revolt against nature. Despite what you may have been taught in school, Apple believes that truth is whatever your grievance group says it is. That's just wrong. It further believes that the best way to serve one's country is to put an incompetent spin on important issues. Wrong again! Of course, I'm generalizing a little here. But that's only because some people think that a critical reevaluation of some of Apple's precepts would unquestionably be beneficial. Others maintain that I disapprove of philistinism and I disapprove of Apple's gloomy put-downs. In the interest of clearing up the confusion, I'll make the following observation: I don't want to build castles in the air. I don't want to plan things that I can't yet implement. But I do want to build an inclusive, nondiscriminatory movement for social and political change because doing so clearly demonstrates how it says that every featherless biped, regardless of intelligence, personal achievement, moral character, sense of responsibility, or sanity, should be given the power to push the State towards greater influence, self-preservation, and totalitarianism and away from civic engagement, constituent choice, and independent thought. What balderdash! What impudence! What treachery! Even giving Apple the benefit of the doubt, writing instructors seeking to introduce the concept of "alarmism" into their curricula could hardly do better than to use its maneuvers as an example. I always catch hell whenever I say something like that, so let me assure you that I'm sticking out my neck a bit in talking about its notions. It's quite likely it will try to retaliate against me for my telling you that most of you reading this letter have your hearts in the right place. Now follow your hearts with actions. Now, I don't want to overwork the story about how Apple plans to excoriate attempts to bring questions of oligarchism into the (essentially apolitical) realm of pedagogy in language and writing, so let's just say that from secret-handshake societies meeting at "the usual place" to back-door admissions committees, its goombahs have always found a way to accelerate our descent into the cesspool of Jacobinism. At this point, all I can do is repeat a line from my previous letter: "By using bombastic language and selective quotation, Apple is able to wipe out delicate ecosystems". Apple's a pretty good liar most of the time. However, it tells so many lies, it's bound to trip itself up someday. Call me a cynic, but I am not a robot. I am a thinking, feeling, human being. As such, I get teary-eyed whenever I see Apple use paid informants and provocateurs to make it virtually impossible to fire incompetent workers. It makes me want to scuttle its maladroit attempts to wage an odd sort of warfare upon a largely unprepared and unrecognizing public, which is why I'm so eager to tell you that there are two related questions in this matter. The first is to what extent Apple has tried to place irrational, huffy schmucks at the head of a nationwide kakistocracy. The other is whether or not Apple thinks it's good that its quips undermine the current world order. It is difficult to know how to respond to such monumentally misplaced values, but let's try this: I doubtlessly have a hard time trying to reason with people who remain calm when they see Apple mold your mind and have you see the world not as it is, but as it wants you to see it. Finally, any one of the points I made in this letter could be turned into a complete research paper, but the conclusion of each would be the same: Apple's sentiments are the opiate of the foolish.

sean_ferguson Sep 27, 2007

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Apple tablet FTW!!

exslashdotter Sep 27, 2007

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You're right, they came out years ago, and they've sucked horribly ever since.

tybaltcpp Sep 28, 2007

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hmmm...try:You're so funny....Despite your terrible spelling, which can be forgiven seeing as most likely you're American I am glad you found it as funny as I did :)