hello i'm a mac

bonniepirateanne · Date: Jun 29, 2006

hello i'm a mac

Aodan · Teiam Member

They make me mad.. I want to punch that hoity-toity, holier-than-thou Mac guy in the face.

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

And I shall cheer you on, Jackie!!

bonniepirateanne · Date: Jun 29, 2006

if i step back and take it as an ad campaign nothing to do with mac - the ad as an ad is pretty good - the "mac" guy is actually pretty sympathetic to the "pc" guy and not "hoity toity" at all (say it was burger king vs mcdonalds, it wouldnt piss people off in the same way, they'd laugh it off)

basically it boils down to pc users hating the mac users and the mac users hating the pc users. neither side's attitude is good - in fact i find it quite confusing - it's an object people! an OBJECT.

i really don't hate pcs, they def have their uses, from personal experience (10 years of using a pc and a year and a half of using a mac) i just get a lot more pleasure and a lot less hassle from this laptop than i did the last one :) i wouldn't go back

Aodan · Teiam Member

As a PC user, I don't have any problems with the mac itself. In fact, OSX isn''t bad at all. (Previous versions of the mac operating system however, had me running for the hills.) It's the attitude I can't stand. I can't even fully explain it, but its just something about these commercials, and that attitude that crawls under my skin. Like I mentioned, its the artsy-fartsy-better-than-you-look-you-out-of-date-nerd-geezer-while-i-kick-it-here-in-my-uber-cool -skater sneakers-and-cords-if-you-want-a-pc-you're-obviously-not-as-smart-or as coooooool-as-a-mac-user attitude Like he's almost throwing pity at him. Like he's about to pat him on the head with a condescending "there, there, tsk, tsk" thrown in.

Punch. In. The. Face.

I'm not the only one!:

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-- Edited by Aodan at 04:08, 2006-06-30

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I want a mac...

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

For specialist work like film or music you cant beat the Mac G series -

But really an intel based Mac that runs windows? sounds like a company getting deparate to me

bonniepirateanne · Date: Jun 30, 2006

as far as i can determine they went to intel because they're a chip company capable of making the chip they wanted..

mac had some trouble with the logic boards in the last range of ibooks (which they promptly recalled and replaced) so my guess is the old.. i want to say ibm (motorola before that i think) .. chip just wasn't what mac paid for and they changed company, the chip inside a mac isn't the same as the chip inside a pc, it's just made by the same company

also i think they're far from desperate, they've seen a huge rise in sales (mostly due to the ipod it's true) in the last few years. they saw a need and provided for it, that's not desperate, that's good business. (and now noone has the 'but macs dont have good games' excuse)

as for the commercial - there's a lot of people do like it (i won't bother with the links

) .. and a lot of people actually prefer the older dude from the john daly show who plays the pc. i like him too, but yes the younger dude is cooler.. and that's because what he says is true heh heh

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

Fair enough - mac has its place and MS keep them well funded to they dont find themselves operating a total monopoly - but at the end of the day my 3 offices are in buildings with total about 10,000 people in them and I havent seen a mac anywhere - still one hell of a hill for them to climb and I dont think the iPod really counts...

bonniepirateanne · Date: Jun 30, 2006

i wouldnt say no http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4170111.stm

and i have the opposite experience..

of my crowd of friends, every person that has a laptop has a mac (i counted on my fingers, i got to ten, then i ran out of fingers).. actually, next trip to usa we're bring back one for a friend (i mean, he's paying.. but also saving $800 with the exchange rate, whoo)

my brother in law's company of 50 all use them (they have one pc to check compatibility on)

it's just what you're used to

i love everyone. well not love. like. well i suppose not everyone, a lot of people tho. right, this is all irrelevant

i just don't want aodan to think i have a bad attitude

i would highly recommend a mac to my friends, but i ultimately don't care what they use

Aodan · Teiam Member

No no no katie

No worries there... its not you I have a problem with.. its not macs I have a problem with.. its those COMMERCIALS I have a problem with

You're a jammie friend!!

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

Quite right - me too!

And if a little company of 50 staff can make us of the Mac goodness then I'll leave the PC usage to the company with 75000 staff and all will be well

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I should point out that those 75000 staffare mostly using nasty old shite PCs that do things like... er...nothing when you want them to do something. Mine's a new one and it's shit.

I'll buy a mac next time round, I think. Katie will think I'm cool then.

bonniepirateanne · Date: Jul 1, 2006

ddvmor wrote:

I should point out that those 75000 staffare mostly using nasty old shite PCs that do things like... er...nothing when you want them to do something. Mine's a new one and it's shit.

(stead, i just don't have the pleasure of working for a big company, i have to stay at home with my husband and my dog and my fridge and my garden and work here

)

ddvmor wrote:

I'll buy a mac next time round, I think. Katie will think I'm cool then.

darren, i already think you're cool. but i'll probbaly think you're cooooler hehe

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Heh. Katie think's I'm cool!

That's so cool!

bonniepirateanne · Date: Jul 1, 2006

billy got a beta version of windows vista (which he is beta testing for ms.. on his mac!) ..

it looks pretty good, he's quite pleased altho i must say they have 'borrowed' quite a few things from another aforementioned operating system

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

What, like the Windows concept? Cuz Apple came up with it first, many many years ago.

bonniepirateanne · Date: Jul 2, 2006

ha right.. no but now they're using the dashboard genius that makes this laptop wonderful :)

and similar log on layouts (altho granted, there's only so many ways to do that), similar swooshy backgrounds, in fact, it just looks a lot like it

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

Apple popularised it true, but Douglas Englebart and the Human Augmentation Project invented the WIMP system in the late 1960's.

Whilst Apple rolled it out first both Commodore, Atari and IBM were in hot pursuit.

bonniepirateanne · Date: Jul 2, 2006

we're not the only people that noticed... "The real Windows Vista"

(i'm not saying there's anything wrong with it - software is all about 'borrowing' other people's ideas, i just think it's super ironic)

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

So does the sound run in sync with the video if you play the ad on a mac? I'd give the pc guy a job over the mac guy any day, the mac guy looks like he'd always be skiving off to play on his skateboard.
Quite honestly (& I'm with Jackie on this, it's the ad I've a problem with, not the product) the message I get from this is that macs are great for farting around on but you need a pc to do work. Possibly this isn't what the marketing department intended?

bonniepirateanne · Date: Jul 4, 2006

well see, if you watch the array of ads, they cover all the aspects - they cover work and play and pretty

ok that was just my little opinion on the end

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

Sorry, but really, I can't watch any more!

bonniepirateanne · Date: Jul 11, 2006

now i know this one is going to make y'all happy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA3NyRr4Eng

bonniepirateanne · Date: Jul 11, 2006

ok, i know these infuriate most of you.. (this one IS one of the mac ads, click at your own risk).. but come on guys the girl pulls a photo out of her butt (and i did share the anti-mac one before hehe)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZbXG7xr6PU&mode=related&search=

Aodan · Teiam Member

bonniepirateanne wrote:

now i know this one is going to make y'all happy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA3NyRr4Eng

hahahahahahaha Thanks Katie :) I feel better now :)

bonniepirateanne wrote:

but come on guys the girl pulls a photo out of her butt

hehehe

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Heh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4oP_ITqMc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8lW8ndh5BU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjpn3L3bSJQ

bonniepirateanne · Date: Jul 27, 2006

hahahahahahahaha !

those are all hilarious.. i love the macbook one.. he has a bigger harddrive.. and runs faster hehe!

-- Edited by bonniepirateanne at 19:10, 2006-07-27

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

sha76jam wrote:

Sorry, but really, I can't watch any more!

BrianS · Still Number One

The agony continues, three new ads

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
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