Steve Jobs is feeling pretty smug after yesterday’s unveiling of the new and svelter than ever MacBook Airs… so smug that he spent the hours after yesterday’s Back To Mac event openly ridiculing the morbidly obese laptops of the journalists present.
The exchange was reported by Forbes’ Brian Caulfield, who reported that after yesterday’s Back To Mac presentation, Steve Jobs loped up to him and pointed one trembling finger at the morbidly obese Dell M1210 Caulfield was writing a story upon and began to laugh at its fatness.
“Look at all those fat notebooks,” Jobs laughed. He then clamped his lips shut, grabbed his throat and simulated the bug-eyed facial contortions of a man vomiting into his own closed mouth. Finally, the shrill repetition of the phrase “Fatty fat fat!” cut through the air as Jobs pranced around, flinging stick after stick of rancid butter at the mystified reporter.
And what about that poor overweight laptop? It was used to such prejudice, such Jobsian jibes. Mustering all of the dignity that it could, that poor Dell M1210 wobbled mightily upon its gelatinous trotters and silently faced its persecutor… and its proud comportment might have touched the soul of even that skeletal OS-exomorph if it had not been broken by a moist, ill-timed fart, which set Jobs cackling anew.
Well, okay. Not really. In actuality, Jobs simply called the notebook fat, then bragged about how the new MacBook Air’s lightness made it “zippy.” I’m not sure about that, given that wimpy 1.4GHz processor, but he’s got at least a few good points, not least of which is “What kind of technology reporter shows up with a Dell to an Apple event?”
