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New MacBook Pro revealed!!!
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Jan 5, 2009, 11:04 PM
 
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Jan 5, 2009, 11:09 PM
 
I love The Onion.
     
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Jan 5, 2009, 11:16 PM
 
I LOL'd
     
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Jan 5, 2009, 11:28 PM
 
Their production values are really high. I'm surprised how spot on a bunch of the props are.

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Jan 6, 2009, 12:24 AM
 
Hahah, beat me to the punch! Pretty funny little video.
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Jan 6, 2009, 12:33 AM
 
I hope Phil gets up on stage and makes a joke about the MacBook Wheel.

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Jan 6, 2009, 12:54 AM
 
Amazing production values! Can you believe how much trouble they go to in order to produce these segments?
     
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Jan 6, 2009, 01:03 AM
 
Hilarious!
     
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Jan 6, 2009, 05:48 AM
 
i like the bit at then end about its use in business and not just for dicking about on
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Jan 6, 2009, 11:25 AM
 
I love how when the letter "T" is needed, it's not the first choice in the long list of characters.

I think it's an effective grind at Apple.
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Jan 6, 2009, 11:41 AM
 
I should timeline this

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Jan 6, 2009, 11:56 AM
 
Haha... a lot of work went into it.

I must say it's probably done by a Mac fan from the Onion.
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Jan 7, 2009, 08:46 AM
 
The sentence completion was hysterical.
     
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Jan 7, 2009, 10:36 AM
 
Without a live audience it's just missing something. Like a live audience.
     
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Jan 7, 2009, 11:00 AM
 
At about a minute in, the SpellChecker reveals some funny results:

The absinthe arrived by airmail
The abortion went well
The actor asked for an aardvark
...
The Althusserian scholar gave his copy of Lacan's "Ecrits" to the abortion doctor.
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Jan 7, 2009, 11:31 AM
 
... everythings just a few hundred clicks away!!
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I love how the 40GB version is $9,995.
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Jan 7, 2009, 06:21 PM
 
"The next generation will be 4 ounces lighter due to its lack of screen, hard drive, and wheel."

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Jan 8, 2009, 01:07 AM
 
Well-parodied by The Onion, as usual.

Originally Posted by Mithras View Post
The sentence completion was hysterical.
That's what got me too.
     
   
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