Seriously, what is with those Mac ads?

Is it just me, or do these ads only seem to be marketed towards people who were gung ho on buying Mac stuff in the first place? The ads are so blatantly fallacious and chock full of straw man arguments, too...those ads make Mac users look like children, IMO. "Windows 7 sucks because Vista sucks lololol":banghead:

I know the Mac ads are pretty old by now, but honestly. I'd like to see a PC ad that focues on the gaming aspects of the PC and compares it to the Mac's gaming power in a method similar to the Mac ads.

"PC: Hey, I can play Crysis on the highest settings on a 2560 by 1600 resolution, what about you Mac?"

"Mac: WELL GOLLY GEE, I CAN BARELY RUN SPORE! A HYUK HYUK"

"PC: Smug grin"

:lol:

But seriously, it almost seems like Apple is trolling with their videos.

 

Were these ads ever released outside of the USA? There are new ones for windows 7 as you say and i find them so annoying i cant be bothered to watch them.

 

Despite being a Windows XP & Vista user, I still got a chuckle out of Apple's Windows 7 'Trust Me' advert.

 

Well, Microsoft always announced big improvements yet Windows always tended to crash, freeze or slow down enormously.

The irony of this advert would be unclear if the viewer could not easily relate to his own bad experiences with Windows. From this perspective I think the ad may be a little offensive, but still justified as at least a part of it is actually true.

 

People always bring this kind of thing up and its getting abit old now. Im sure Microsoft could put an end to all those problems if it only had to deal with 100 different configurations of machine like apple has to. (100 based on nothing but a random idea of how many intel Mac configurations there are. Either way its a hugely small number).

You also have to think about the fact everything you perceive to be a Windows problem could have to do with the hundreds of drivers installed on your computer written by third parties.

 

Well, that doesn't make that marketing talk sound better afterwards, does it? They knew about the difficulties of creating an omnifunctional system and of course there were lots of errors occuring.
Apple doesn't have to deal with that because they always create their own hardware that fits the OS perfectly. I really begin to wonder why Windows-defenders regard that as such a big offense, Apple just found a way to make their computers more stable than others because of their innovative architecture as a whole.

It convinced me finally, to be honest. I ordered my first Apple computer (new iMac 21,5") on Wednesday after 14 years of using Windows (including 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP) and many dead nerve cells. Dunno if the Mac is better, but after what I've heard and seen it's very likely and I just love to give it a try.

 

How about Microsoft their pathetic commercials about giving people money and letting the choose themselves... And they always ended up with a PC :lol: . Plus M$ claimed it was real although it later turned out to be actors.

 

Well i am on my Macbook pro (my main day to day machine) and the other machines in my house are a windows 2003 server and windows xp & vista and i dont have any of the crash and freezing problems. If you pick good hardware and software and install silly things on your system then you should be fine.

 

I always watch the new Mac vs PC ads as they usually make me chuckle. Sometimes they are a bit silly and childish, but overall they are quite funny. Last year's animated Xmas adverts were quite well done.

 

Some are well done to where i do laugh, while others.... well you have to be a fucking idiot to believe the ad and go with a Mac based on the advertisement.

Here's what I think about them mac ads most of the time....

 

I'd say "stupid & impressionable" is a term that rather fits to those people who prefer to believe again and again that the new Windows finally got rid off all frustrating errors and offers a way improved performance

I don't care about about how much CO2 my computer produces to be honest. Not as long as neither the US nor China are members of the Kyoto protocol am I willing to pay big bucks for maybe one m² a year less of CO2.

 

See, now that would be a Windows commercial ;-) .

 

Sometimes I wish Linux wasn't so open-source, just so it could generate commercials.

 

At the expense of sounding boring I dare say that I prefer windows to other OS for the simple reason that I m so familiar with it. I can't be arsed learning new things when my productivity is already at top speed on a windows PC.

Of course I don't do any sort of audio/visual editing but I even then I can't see how a top end mac could beat a top end PC when running 'professional' applications. Back in the PowerPC days I wanted a mac because the hardware was different, now that it's a repackaged PC I just consider it an elitistic subtotal of the PC market.

it's like driving a hybrid. It lacks manliness.:033:

 

Now there's a rational argument... you're probably kidding, but there are people who think like that.

 

Like Novell did...

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

Although this is more like what linux adverts would be like...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-L-0s-7-Z0

Or this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSu2dzu--TE


I've still not come across anyone that I know who owns a Mac that couldn't do the same stuff they do on a cheaper low end PC or notebook.

Q. Do you have more money then sense or do you like to pretend to look cool?
A. No - Buy a PC and use the remaining money you saved on not buying a mac to do something usefull.
Yes - Take out a loan and buy a Mac

 

Haha.

Native Unix & X Server. It is why I bought my Macbook Pro, and will never go back to Windows for anything other than being a great Mame machine. My iPhone synching to it natively w/o no extra shitting software needed is nice as well.

They're over priced, no question about it, but I actually need the Unix stuff, and the fact is it flat out sucks on Windows.

 

There is nothing that you can do on Mac, Windows or Linux that you cannot do on the other OS's. The only difference is what platform your desired applications/games are available on.

 

There's plenty you can do on one better than the other though.

-Gimp is still not as feature-rich as Photoshop (and likely never will be) and it doesn't run perfectly through Wine.
-Linux has nothing that comes close to Illustrator
-Unless Windows 7 is some type of revolutionary breakthru, there is still no "good" X-server for windows, and any type of Unix-style terminal is going to be tacked on and not native to the OS.
-Supporting windows remotely is a disaster compared to the other two (this is where the native Unix shell comes in).
-Games and online poker are far more abundant on the PC
-Neither Windows nor Mac will give as much control to the user.... and in my experience will give far more headaches.
-Beryl is nothing but Eye Candy but looks far flashier than anything non-Linux
-Getting a "lite" Windows or Mac machine truly takes some rigging. For *nix, it takes reading a guide.

Someone tell me Windows has adopted Unix-style network logins and I'll stop bashing it.

 

Apple kind of shot themselves in the foot here in the UK (i take it they didn't run them elsewhere?) with the 'peep show' adverts.

Go with Jez (Mac) and be fun & creative or go with Mark (PC) and be boring....the thing is Mark owns his own flat, has a pretty decent job & unexpectedly picks up women - Jez on the otherhand lives off mum's money, doesn't hold down a job, leeches off Mark, has a pretty shallow existence, is thick and doesn't have his own flat...