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New online-only Mac vs. PC ad.
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It really can't even be explained...you just have to try it to see how bad it is. I use XP on a daily basis, and in relative terms it's not so bad. It works, it really doesn't crash much, with all the latest patches and fixes it runs relatively solidly. Vista on the other hand is just a complete trainwreck. Every time I use it makes me feel like most people probably do the first time they use a computer, where you just can't find your way around anything and feel confused in general. It's actually kind of embarrassing for me when I go to help someone with a Vista machine, and I look like I don't know what I'm doing, because some things are just hidden so deep within the OS that it takes forever to find them. It's so bloated and over-complicated; to me a good application is one that minimizes the number of clicks to get to something, and Vista does just the opposite.
Tiger was a train-wreck of an OS. Tiger on my friends G4 is always running slower then slow, and Tiger on my MBP was always crashing. Upgrade to Leopard, it's way better.
luv it..
luv it, but with the recent post of the imei on the iphone, i fear big brother might be doing the same thing on the macs.... or r they doing so right now..
*runs and hides*
luv it, but with the recent post of the imei on the iphone, i fear big brother might be doing the same thing on the macs.... or r they doing so right now..
*runs and hides*
Leopard, definitely way better, but man it has some teething problems too. Granted, most of that had to do with not releasing GM-build Leopard to developers until retail release.
Unsanity, hurry up me hates me some uglydock and menubar.
It's funny everyone is praising this ad and how clever it is, when the majority of people on here didn't even spot the banner at the top of the screen.
easily the best internet ad to date.
I doubt it'll make the 95+% of people in the world who are happy with their PC's switch however.
This has to be one of the best ad's going. at least IHMO, as for PCMAG and John Dvorass and his trivial opinions . Apple the way to go and I went over a year ago. Never looked back once, and will NEVER EVER load winblows on any MAC I own.
One thing I noticed about the PC Ragazine years ago was who ever PAID the most for advertising got the best ratings and reviews. Just MY Opinion and thats that
As for the ones out there feeling insecure about an IMEI number and are reading in between the lines , oh well , get over it. VZW and AT&T have both sub come to the government so if your doing something illegal well sooner or later your going to be caught but more than likely the IMEI thing is nothing more than tracing/tracking what devices are out there and where are they?
One thing I noticed about the PC Ragazine years ago was who ever PAID the most for advertising got the best ratings and reviews. Just MY Opinion and thats that
As for the ones out there feeling insecure about an IMEI number and are reading in between the lines , oh well , get over it. VZW and AT&T have both sub come to the government so if your doing something illegal well sooner or later your going to be caught but more than likely the IMEI thing is nothing more than tracing/tracking what devices are out there and where are they?
true
when i say its the "best ad out there" or whatever i said, i'm going with how clever it was to have to dual banner thing going, the humor and the general idea. as far as reaching switchers . . . obviously getting the other 95% to swtich is never going to happen, but just getting people to enter the site, browse around and keep the possibility of buying a mac in the future is definitely there. maybe they'll get an ipod while they are there too. regardless of marketing, i still give this ad a 11 out of 10 just because it's clever and funny and breaks the mold.
when i say its the "best ad out there" or whatever i said, i'm going with how clever it was to have to dual banner thing going, the humor and the general idea. as far as reaching switchers . . . obviously getting the other 95% to swtich is never going to happen, but just getting people to enter the site, browse around and keep the possibility of buying a mac in the future is definitely there. maybe they'll get an ipod while they are there too. regardless of marketing, i still give this ad a 11 out of 10 just because it's clever and funny and breaks the mold.
Apple really needs to get it's act together.The ironic part is, if I load it in Safari it crashes my browser. Way to go Apple.
Safari bugs and other things people have pointed out show that Apple isn't perfect by any means, so these ads poking fun at Windows stretch credibility to say the least.
It's like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
Still, the ads ARE working, judging by the growing number of Mac customers, so I don't blame Apple for continuing this frequently humorous ad campaign.
I work for a church and we recently asked a few IT people to volunteer their time to help us revamp our servers and network. One of his first questions was "do you have any vista PCs?" I told him no, i dint think it was very stable yet. He replied "good. dont!"
I rolled back to Tiger! I hate to say it, but Vista is more stable than Leopard. Leopard is very buggy.
Apple deserves an award for creative advertisement for this. No other company has made me look forward to the next commercial or avalanche ad.
It's you, reinstall Safari.
edit: Ok, I just successfully played the ad on the Safari 3 beta... on Windows... Vista... x64. And it played just fine. It's definitely you.
The ironic part is, if I load it in Safari it crashes my browser. Way to go Apple.
It's you, reinstall Safari.
edit: Ok, I just successfully played the ad on the Safari 3 beta... on Windows... Vista... x64. And it played just fine. It's definitely you.
ok it was rather funny....but it's getting a bit dull these ads...always the same thing... ok we know microsoft sucks...
but leopard sucks as well....so you should make a banner saying "please don't give up on leopard...just wait untill there's a real update..."
geez...i'm really tired of these ads...
but leopard sucks as well....so you should make a banner saying "please don't give up on leopard...just wait untill there's a real update..."
geez...i'm really tired of these ads...
lol, fantastic ad, the problem is though, lots of people who are seeing it are having to force quit their browsers, mac or pc, safari, ie or firefox. Engadget have even posted an article telling people how to block flash. I thought it was a fluke, but it kept happening. Apple may have made a wrong move.
