Mac "Get a Mac" Ad Ping!
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Posted on 08/20/2008 8:20:08 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple has begun airing three new "Get a Mac" ads on U.S. network and cable television.
In "Pizza Box," PC stoops to disguising himself as a pizza to get college students to even look his way.
Apple "Get a Mac" ad: Pizza Box
In "Throne," PC sits atop his throne, but Mac puts a damper on his fun.
Apple "Get a Mac" ad: Throne
In "Calming Teas," Windows PC offers user "calming teas" to deal with the mess that is Windows Vista.
Apple "Get a Mac" ad: Calming Teas
See the ads in various sizes and qualities via Apple.com here.
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Vista must have been coded prior to XP; it’s the only explanation.
I guess I’m one of those brain washed Mac users, but I liked the commercials (especially pizza box. IT’S SO TRUE!)
Saw the pizza box one yesterday, pretty funny.
Thanks for the ping!
Could use a laugh!
I held off for years but...I’m getting my wife a laptop next month for her business. It will be a Vista machine since that is really all you can get really.
I will be loading Linux Ubuntu and Open Office on it.
Personally, I’d rather save the money and get the Mac, even if it’s more expensive! I like the get a counselor ad.
If my resources were unlimited, I would go Apple.
ping me for later.
Cute! I rank Apple right up there with the Wii and PS3.
When I can buy Mac in a box I’ll consider it an o.s.
Until then it’s a system.
>>If my resources were unlimited, I would go Apple.<<
That said, my sisters and her husbands resources ARE unlimited and they are all PC.
Apple has since leapt to gold. The ACSI report for the second quarter of 2008 ranks Apple at 85, indisputably above silver medalist Dell, at 75. Apple scored 11 points above the computer-maker industry average, which slipped 1% during the quarter to 74. Apple's rating is also an all-time high for the computer industry.
Rivals continue to struggle with consumer dissatisfaction over the Microsoft Vista upgrade. But spurred by the popularity of its iPhone and iPod, Apple is winning over more users than ever before in its history.
Between fiscal years 1998 and 2002, Apple computer sales grew at an average annual rate of 1.6%. Between 2003 and 2007, that figure shot up to 23.6%.
30% growth rate year-over-year, six times the industry average, now more than 8% of the US market (up from just over 6% one year ago), with an installed base among US consumers of over 15%, that's not embarrassing. Those are not embarrassing numbers.
A third of new PCs being downgraded to XP, says metrics researcher
Vista may be what Microsoft sells, but XP remains popular
By Gregg Keizer
August 18, 2008 (Computerworld) More than one in every three new PCs is downgraded from Windows Vista to the older Windows XP, either at the factory or by the buyer, a performance and metrics researcher said today.
According to Devil Mountain Software Inc., which operates a community-based testing network, nearly 35% of the 3,000-plus PCs it examined had been downgraded from Vista to XP.
"Either these machines were downgraded by [sellers like] Dell or HP, or they were downgraded by the user after they got the machine," said Craig Barth, chief technology officer at Devil Mountain. "In any case, these machines are no longer running Vista."
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