I met Steve Ballmer at a meet and greet this morning and asked him to sign my laptop. My apologies for the impending apocalypse.
Edit: Here’s the video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwzklHZqkbE
Steve Ballmer signed my Macbook
Published: January 20, 2010Posted in: Useless Universe
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Much as I dislike the bloke, seems he has a sense of humour. Good effort!
Congrats on becoming an overnight success.
Let me know if you want me tell who this “anonymous student” was who had the gall to ask Steve to sign a mac.
I’m wondering that now that Mr. Ballmer signed your MacBook, does that make it more valuable or less?
You run a mac and your website doesn’t work properly in Safari? Perhaps you should buy an Asus after all.
Awesome guy, looks pretty nice in person!
Indeed. Buy a new one.
should have slapped him across the back of the head with it.. I hate Ballmer… at least Gates is an intelligent man
This has got to be the most awesome moment. Congrats!
Feels like he pushed the marker hard, and that’s why the signature got deformed right?
Was he angry at the apple?
thats pretty funny. I wonder what he’d do if I asked him to sign my mac pro?
<3
I’ll buy it!
that is flippin sweet, and ironic at the same time
Why would you ask Steve Ballmer to sign a MacBook?
So spill the beans. Does that Mac really have windows running on it lol??
You really need to fix this broke ass website
I don’t think I would want to tarnish my mac that way! Not even if it was Bill Gates!
hahaha oh wow. that was so EXTREME! you took it RIGHT TO THE EDGE!
He was a lot nicer then i thought he would have been.
Website works fine in FF and IE but not Chrome, very strange.
Errors found while checking this document as XHTML 1.0 Transitional!
Result: 7 Errors, 3 warning(s)
That would be why then.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fuselessuniverse.com%2F%3Fp%3D50%23comments&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
Who’s to say that Windows isn’t installed on this MacBook Pro? Did Balmer ask? I doubt it. It is installed on mine though I don’t use it very often, but I would have been pretty pissed off had he written that across my logo (of course I would never have asked him to, but to each his own!).
haha cool! Do you also have the picture with you holding your mac with Steve next to you?
Did you know your website doesn’t format correctly on Safari for mac? You have a MAC but you have a website that doesn’t work well on the Apple web browser.
you are a complete retard. letting m.f. balmer even touch it. you definitely need a new one and this time a pc for sure. traitor. f.off
i can’t even imagine how stupid you have to be to be proud that balmer sign your Mac. stupid.
The one thing I appreciate about your website: your honesty in naming it. Now go and, please, get a fucking life. Your just another loser in the great dung heap of internet losers.
The one thing I appreciate about your website: your honesty in naming it. Now go and, please, get a fucking life. You are just another loser in the great dung heap of internet losers.
Wow that’s amazing that Microsoft’s CEO would sign an Apple product. I’d like to see it happen the other way around as well =)
thats awesome, hell would freeze over before Steve Jobs signs any PC
Why are you all so hateful when not even the CEO of Microsoft gave him so much grief? At least this person had the drive to actually ask. Everyone insulting this person for doing this deserves a slap to the face next time they choke. And who’s the real loser, when he actually has a website with content, and you’re all spending time criticizing a small fry? (sorry no offense to the author).
Some people here obviously have too much free time. He asked the CEO of Microsoft to sign a Mac, not bashing Apple or Microsoft or anything for that matter. Even Steve Ballmer didn’t freaked out and jumped on his blog criticizing him.
Geez, it is you people that make the term ‘Apple fanboy’ sounds ugly.
P.S. Also, great to see a CEO having a sense of humor. It’ll make his life much brighter
I meant ‘didn’t freak out and jump…’ 
P.S.S. No edit button?
great steve!
I guess we can now expect pc’s everywhere with his name splattered all over them. First time he will have actually copied something of his own mind.
poteva almeno stare attento alla mela.
Hah, that’s pretty good! Seriously does it have Windows? I have Win 7 on mine but it’s on a Fusion VM and I keep it on an external hard drive. So yeah, it has Windows on it, but I only use it when I absolutely have to (i.e. when PowerPoint 2008 decides to fail.)
When he wrote “Need a new one?” I would have said “Yeah, actually I am considering a new laptop. Those 17″ Unibodies are pretty sweet!” lol…
And I agree with some of the posters above, your site needs some problems fixed. It does’t work right on Safari.
Please buy me your mac
lol why the hate people? and what’s wrong with the website? i ran it in firefox, IE, chrome safari and opera. Nothing wrong with it.
Why would a signature devalue a laptop anyways? chill!
He sort of looks back at the end, as if to re-consider the shit-storm he’s just initiated
What a strange thing to do
hope you good
Fix the fucking website, moron
Ahaha this is awesome, macfags getting owned
Bit cheeky of you. Ballmer was *allegedly* spotted carrying an iphone according to some media reports. Congrats for paying him out and to Steve for playing things out with style.
Happy Australia Day for those who land up here ; )
that will prob* void any warranty left on the device
it had been running GNU/Linux the perm* ink would have turn to dry eraser and wiped right off.
I thought I might thank you for this post as I truly enjoyed it.
you should sell it at ebay … $$$
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I dislike SB as much as the next ..eh.. person who dislikes SB. Why? – his childish refusal to graciously acknowledge any of Apple’s innovation/accomplishments. However, this does at least show some sense of fun. Made me smile. Besides, I’d imagine the signed MB would sell for a handsome price to MS/PC fanboys via eBay – paving the way for a shiny new unibody MBP.
There are no Apple fans getting owned, apple eater. Considering Balmer is courting Apple to replace Google with Bing as the default search on the iPhone and Apple and MSFT have a joint interest in defending their established markets from Google, a new player in phones and OSes, who will definitely take share from one of them, I will be laughing my ass off when Apple and MSFT partner and the bizarre one-way fundamentalist’s view of your world you choose to take makes your head inverse and you shit your pants.
There is no MSFT vs. Apple. Do you realize how happy Ballmer is with that Mac having Windows? That copy of Windows would have had to be purchased at retail price, not OEM price, so Microsoft makes a lot more money on a copy of Win 7 on a Mac than on a PC. Why should MSFT hate Apple?
And Apple is the highest valued consumer electronics manufacturer on the planet, and also worth more than Google and almost as much as MSFT. So why should they hate Microsoft?
And don’t say ‘fags,’ you let us know you are the fat, bisexual (but so scared of actually being so), bullied fourteen year old that never leaves his office chair in front of his Dell we all figured you were. It’ll be okay that you like dick, really.
You know what, just keep ignoring your sexuality to troll comments on blogs about a conflict you pump bigger and bigger in your mind to your adolescent little delight while we go and get real shit done.
apple eater, you disgust those normal among us. I sit here, using Windows 7 on a MacBook, and I wouldn’t want it any other way…
(Sorry everyone, I hadn’t commented on a troll’s dumb ass remarks or taken part in a flame war in a very long time… that comments, and I believe his use of ‘fags’ to describe me, a Windows user who runs 7 on a MacBook, particularly appalling… the little bitch.
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