Obama Uses A MacBook Pro To Show Off Healthcare.gov

John Brownlee ()

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Although he’s still a Blackberry man on the mobile front, President Obama is a MacBook Pro user when it comes to his day-to-day work, as this video demonstrating the new healthcare.gov site makes abundantly clear. I particularly like the sitcom-style sticker slapped on the back of the 17-inch MacBook Pro, obfuscating its glowing Apple emblem. It’s clearly a MacBook, but the White House is still being coy, lest the fact that President Obama uses an Apple laptop somehow be misconstrued as, you know, an actual endorsement of the best computer brand on Earth.

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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  • David

    Lipstick.

  • hass

    also note he has the matte screen…interesting

  • Ferd

    So he can work an MBP, but not an iPod? I think he was just reading cues off the teleprompter.

  • http://www.fuzzypig.com Fuzzy

    US gov promoting US company ( although they had to cover the Apple logo with a presidential seal, shhhh people might not notice )

  • http://deoclicianocgiportfolio.wordpress.com Deocliciano Okssipin Vieira

    @Ferd

    Do not be a hater!
    So knowing how to use a Mac implies you already used a iPad?
    Or it was a self deprecating humor stunt that did not work.

    Only fools talks about what they do not use. Like antenna-gate brouhaha.

    But …
    What differentiates reading from a teleprompter from reading a written speech on paper?
    OH, Glenn Beck does not use one.
    … also Glenn Beck has all the time to write his own farts.

  • Ferd

    D.O.V. – why don’t you check out the link above the comments (Is President Obama iPod challenged)? It links to a story from earlier this year where Obama states that he can’t work an iPod (not an iPad, though I’m sure he’d have the same issues). An iPod is definitely simpler to use than a Mac, so it stands to reason that the more complicated device would puzzle him.

    The thing about the teleprompter is that the man can’t function without it, and even sometimes with it. Not sure where Glenn Beck or his farts entered the picture, but I believe you’re right – he doesn’t use one.

  • Neal

    I don’t like my Macbook so much any more.

  • P

    I did not think Obama was smart enough to use a Mac.

  • Matthias

    Maybe he was really using it to find his birth certificate?

  • Elmer Fudd

    DOV, you consistently write some of the dumbest remarks on this site.

  • king

    The president shows you how to use a website?
    America must be some country

  • IcyFog

    @Ferd @P … Obama admitted he’s not smart enough to operate either an iPod or iPad, but my 3- and 4-year-old nephews have no problem opening and using apps on either the iPod touch or iPad.

    Still it’s nice to see him use a MBP and OS X.

  • ged

    a super cool Pres should use a super cool computer?

  • imajoebob

    He doesn’t want to show the Apple logo because he’d be derided by the neonaz- uh, neocon rightwingers as an “intellectual elite” – as if being an intellectual is actually a bad thing.

    As for the whole iPod thing, first, I think he was using a little hyperbole with the “younger generation.” And if he wasn’t, as a contemporary of the president, if I don’t already own the technology, I don’t know how to use it. I used to run the IT department, so it shocked a friend who had to show me how to use her iPhone. Someone loaned me their blackberry to make a call and I couldn’t even figure out how to dial it. And the satellite radio on a rental car was mostly an exercise in randomly pushing buttons until I found something I’d listen to.

    If I’ve got more important things to do than figure out how to use electronics I don’t already own, I can only hope Obama has the same problem.