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Here it is on youtube...
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It's sort of like bragging that you've never been robbed, while having the the most ghetto house in the neighborhood. It's not that your security system is great, it's that no one wants your crap.

 

I hate that $#$king kid man. I hate em. I hate Macs just because of that guy. I hate his face. I hate his mouth. I hate him.

 

What a great way to put it!

 

This makes me really want to use linux.

 

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IMO they both serve different needs, and trying to compare them is like apples and oranges.. I use both, but I prefer a PC.

 

I thought I was the only one! He's got one of those mugs that begs to be punched.

 

Macs are blowin' up.

 

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That guy was in that movie "Waiting". He is like a wannabe Wyatt from "Weird Science".

 

I'm with you man. Even though he's been in a lot of sh*t lately, I stiil see him as that f'n nerd from Galaxy Quest. f*ck Macs.

 

Great commercial.

I use PCs all the time, but my mac has just blown all of them out of the water.

 

What does Jackson Browne have to do with computers anyway?

 

I never really understood why it's always mac vs. PC. Isn't a mac a "PC" anyways?

 

It is about what you are use too
Coming out of High School . . I was all Mac
College FORCED me to go to PC
have not gone back . .. . but may in the future

Rocket RIver

 

I also hate the attitude of the commercial. Acting smug towards the consumers you are trying to sway is a bad idea. But I will still try out a Macbook as my next computer purchase despite the ads.

I read an article where they polled people on these Mac commercials. Most people sympathized w/ the PC guy and found the Mac guy unrelatable.

 

Bashing your main competitor is sort of a "last resort" measure for companies. It usually works, though. It worked for Sega back in the early 90's (Sega does what Nintendon't) and it worked for Pepsi back in the 80's (The choice of a new generation). It only works temporarily, though, as people get tired of negativity. Ipple has all but forgotten its computer division the last couple of years, so they have to get users to switch from Windows to Mac, rather than having the same people buy Macs over and over again.

 

I still think that Apple did not learn their lesson from back in the 80's...absolute proprietary hardware requirements will do you in. Part of Microsoft's problems with Windows is that they have to support so many hardware pieces. And while this is one of the major problems/flaws within the Windows OS...it's also one of its greatest strengths. By using a PC, I am not limited to the hardware that Apple forces me to use.

As for the ads, I do somewhat sympathize with the PC character...only because he seems like a nice guy who is trying really hard to succeed. The Mac guy comes across as quite facetious. Apple would have been better off making the PC guy seem a little more like a jerk...but by doing that, you alienate your target demographic even more.

Ads funny...yes...effective...no.

 

They've tried that for years... hasn't worked.

I like the one that shows them taping a video camera to the laptop with tape (gotta make it look as bad as possible). What they don't tell you is

1) There are PC laptops also with the camera built-in.
2) What do you do if/when the camera dies? Send your entire laptop back for repairs or send the built-in camera back for repairs?
3) What if you want to buy a better one a year or two down the road? Do you buy a new camera or do you buy a new laptop?

Marketing... another word for trying to fool the customer.

I installed Vista here. I like the product so far and haven't had a problem except connecting to one SMB share which was fixed with a 1-digit registry change.

 

Back in the 70's and 80's, the term "PC" actually referred to an IBM PC or an IBM PC clone. Eventually anything that emulated or acted like an IBM PC was referred to as a PC. Macs/Apple on the other hand was proprietary everything back then and were not IBM PC-compatible. So they were uh... Macs and Apples.