In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For twelve days leading up to Christmas, we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

Remember when being a computer geek meant hanging out in your garage with your other bespectacled chums, sautering processors to homemade motherboards? Well, Steve Jobs has done his very best to divorce his image from those days. Though, you may not be able to get Steve a DIY computer kit anymore, there still a few things left on his wish list.

Boy, there are a lot of videos about iPads today. So many! As the staff at CollegeHumor is quick to point out, there are almost too many angles to come at this thing from.  When an opportunity like this arises, it’s almost overwhelming…

The economic turmoil over the last couple of weeks might as well have taken place in a M. Night Shyamalan movie - we’ve endured interminable uncertainty and speculation, always confident that the ending will inevitably suck. Financial advisors are scrambling just to provide advice they won’t regret minutes later.  Some implore you to protect your investments in the commodities market, others suggest the more direct approach of stuffing your cash into a duffel and ascending whatever bell tower will provide an optimal sniping position.  Yet, despite the volatility, some forceful financial advice is coming out of Cupertino, CA where a most unique economic stimulus plan has been unveiled:

Steve’s got a point.  If anything can trump the fervor over our economic dissolve, it would be the distraction of shiny, new Mac hardware.  The tech news has been frothing over the sturdier unibody construction of this Macbook, something that didn’t interest me until I learned the technical description for the assembly is called “monocoque“. Sometimes the Dick Joke Gods are far too kind.  But what else is under the hood that will make this yet another phenomenon for Apple?  Let’s take a look.

NEW FEATURE LEGEND
A - Screen now 40% more glossy, enabling the owner to drink in the reflection of their smug satisfaction while using a Macbook
B - The Macbook now runs dual video cards - one for the primary display, one to handle subliminal propaganda:

Overall, I was a little underwhelmed by the adjustments to this model.  For all of the innovations Apple has put forth in mobile computing, they are still neglecting wireless power.  This is reprehensible considering that I developed a working prototype with aluminum foil ages ago (patent pending):
 

Still, even if it’s not my favorite offering of theirs, I will probably have to buy one if only to demonstrate my allegiance to their newest marketing campaign:

Ian Cheesman generated this content, as well as much of internetsensation.com, on a Macbook Pro.  He doesn’t relish being a hypocrite, it’s just that he adores attention, negative or othwerwise.  It’s a sickness.