Here, have a barf. Watch this guy assemble a random assemblage of PC parts, cram them into a tablet chassis, install Windows XP on the resulting mess and then have the sheer audacity to emblazon it with an Apple logo and call it the iPad 3… all to a soundtrack of nu-metal-for-fratties band Linkin Park, as apparently broadcast by AM radio to a receiver made out of a tin can.
I totally admit, I’m posting this against my better judgment… but what the hell is this guy playing at? Everything about this video is just awful. Calling that monstrosity an iPad 3 is one thing — I suppose it is much like the local filth-encrusted wino with the lazy eye claiming to be Sir Lawrence Olivier — but jeez, couldn’t he at least have Hackintoshed it?
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
