[Vermonter]

Read it all the way through

[Vermonter]

Please ping the usual suspects

[highball]

Interesting.

What's all this venom that anti-Mac people have over the second mouse button? I've seen several people list that as the primary reason not to get one.

[rlmorel]

I read it all the way through. I use a mac, and will be the first to say I dislike the ad campaign.

But the bile and stereotypic drivel this guy writes, and apparently is paid for writing, is dumber than the Apple ads.

I read it all the way through, as you suggested. Was there a particular passage you thought had something that made it worthwhile?

[smith288]

Those ads are pretty funny but I do agree, the ad campaign isnt exactly fair.

The Mac is supposedly hip but i believe I saw that a poll thought the guy was a pretentious asshat and people felt somewhat sorry for the PC and identified themselves with him.

Not exactly the goal in mind when making the ad.

[NonValueAdded]

LOL, he nails it!

[peteram]

It is definitely a classic example of marketing to a target demographic. It's clear that they are going after the younger set (probably figuring that the middle-age set are too set in their ways to ever change from PC to Mac)

[miliantnutcase]

Wow he nailed it!
Except my PC doesn't ever crash unless I overclock it too far.

[Jet Jaguar]

CharlieBrooker

February 5, 2007 01:23 AM

Hello. Charlie Brooker here.

I wrote this piffle. Then it was subbed. And whoever subbed it decided to add a bit describing Doom as “the first shoot-em-up game”.

Words fail me.

They also changed every abbreviation -– so “they’re” becomes “they are” and “it’s” becomes “it is”, and so on -- presumably in an attempt to inject a bit more plodding, impersonal joylessness to the whole thing.

Bet they did it on a Mac, too.

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First comment following article. Funny stuff.

[Turbopilot]

I don't care who y'are, that's funny right there.

(Is it inappropriate to use a "Larry the Cable Guy" reference when discussing classic British dry wit? Oh well. In any case, it's brilliant writing.)

[Swordmaker]

Mac FUD Satire... PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[BunnySlippers]

PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people.

Commie ...

[tubebender]

I'm using a mouse with at least 2 buttons and a scroll wheel. The third button makes the cursor disappear and I haven't been able to figure that out in 2 years.

Those ads were written for a certain demographic and it's not the geriatrics I run around with...

[Clemenza]

Mac is to computers what the Mini or Prius is to cars.

Steve Jobs is an a-shole and a Syrian to boot. ;-)

[big'ol_freeper]

Interesting, but ultimately wrong. I own both PC's and Mac's. Mac's are exponentially better machines than PC's (I know nothing of Vista though...probably never will). Anyone who can't sit down and compare these machines side-by-side and come to that conclusion is just a kool-aid drinker in the personal computer wars, or just plain..well I won't go there. Not to say there are not Mac kool-aid drinkers too, but they happen to be correct without actually comparing the products.

[HairOfTheDog]

LOL - This is hilarious :~D

[TheBattman]

This week: Charlie watched some episodes of Larry Sanders (on his PC). He played the customised Fawlty Towers map for Counterstrike (on his PC). He listened to the Windows startup jingle every 10 minutes as his PC repeatedly rebooted itself.

Buhahahahaha......now that is a riot...