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.
I had a scheduled PC laptop replacement at work a couple of weeks ago and it is an HP with Windows XP Professional. My last three Personal Computer purchases at home were HP's. My wife's laptop is a Toshiba with Vista and my HP also has Vista.
I always understood that Mac users invented calming tea! I stay calm by knowing that I have never felt pompous enough to consider owning a Mac.
I must say that my TI-99/4A was my first ever, and still the favorite of my heart.
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Twenty seven years without an Apple product.
Hey wait a minute... I’ve *got* a “pizza box Mac”, a Performa 6360...
Our Mac experience was painful and brief. Wife bought one for her graphics needs...1) paid way more than a comparable PC-based system, 2) monitor committed suicide, 3) ongoing problems with peripherals (scanner, printer), 4) unable to upgrade the OS beyond 8.5 (as I recall) and 5) is now a lovely doorstop.
I have no interest in repeating any of that experience.
As a stockholder I am glad that Apple is not into sinking MS, but is in the business to make money.
Hm, let’s play a little with that statement. Take it back in time, oh, 20 years.
“If Toyota really wants to bring down GM, they should drop the price of a Corolla.”
Yeah... Toyota didn’t, and now GM is the #2 maker in the world.
I believe Macs are much better now, but I have to say that the two people I know personally who’ve bought Mac laptops in the last year have been disappointed.
On guy bought one for his daughter at school. she likes it, but it has had several catistrophic failures. Two dvd drives, a hard drive, and part of the case warped so it wouldn’t close.
The other guy sold his. He never got it to work with his business software.
What does this 30 percent growth rate take Mac to, in terms of market share?
What does this 30 percent growth rate take Mac to, in terms of market share? My apologies, I should have read further, a whopping 8 percent of the market. Go get em Mac.
I am talking to you now on a Windows 98 computer. Only time this machine has been to the shop was to clean out a bug 5 years ago, no problems since them.
In 1988, this was GM's offering in the compact car class:
This was Toyota's:
You *still* see a lot of the Toyotas around. The 2nd generation Cavaliers are all but extinct. Toyota sold less of them and they cost notably more than the Cavalier.
As someone pointed out, Apple is interested in making money, not sinking Microsoft. Microsoft will die in time. There's no need to rush it... which is the same strategy Toyota has, as documented in many books.
Mac OS 8.5 was the first Mac OS to require a PowerPC processor. Machines running OS 7 (introduced in 1991) were generally upgradable to OS 8, until 8.5 came along. You would think that supporting machine made up to SEVEN YEARS EARLIER would be enough.
For comparison, in 1991, Windows was on version 3.0. Minimum hardware requirements were:
8086/8088 processor or better
640K conventional memory
a hard disk with 6-7MB of free space
CGA/EGA/VGA/Hercules/8514/a graphics and an appropriate and compatible monitor
Windows 3.0 was made to run on 286/386 chips, which weren't widely used until 1993 or so.
Windows 95 came out four years later in 1995. The minimum requirements were:
Intel 80386 DX CPU of any speed,
4 MB of system RAM
50 MB of hard drive space
But recommended specs were:
Intel 80486 or compatible microprocessor
least 8 MB of RAM
So we have APPLE supporting legacy systems for SEVEN YEARS and MICROSOFT forcing hardware upgrades after only FOUR YEARS.
BTW, check out the Microsoft OS timeline and you will see that they do that just about EVERY four years. Checking out the Apple OS timeline will show that Apple supports it's computers MUCH longer.
Your Apple “experience” is not indicative of the reality today and please, don't use a “legacy” argument when comparing Apple and Microsoft.
It would seem Mac's hard drive problems carried over to I-pod. Bought my wife and I-Pod two years ago has had constant hard drive problems. Sent it back to Apple under my Apple care warranty, they claimed they could find nothing wrong and sent it back. The unit finally crashed this week. The genius and the genius bar at my local Apple store told me to scrap it and get a nano. Don't care to mess with any more products from Apple.
It would seem Mac's hard drive problems carried over to I-pod. I bought my wife an I-Pod two years ago. The unit has had constant hard drive problems, in particular, crashing for unexplained reasons in the middle of a song. I sent it back to Apple under my Apple care warranty, they claimed they could find nothing wrong and sent it back. The unit finally crashed for good this week. The genius at the genius bar at my local Apple store told me that the hard drive was no good and to scrap it and get a nano.I don't care to mess with any more products from Apple.
Don’t diss the Cavalier. I had a ‘92 and it was an excellent car, including very tough for all the rough ancient, forgotten dirt-road grave-hunting I did with it. Had it for 8 years (used) and finally got the bug when it was 10yo and had some stuff crop up.
Toyota was not better than GM 20 years ago. And I seriously doubt the high end Toyotas were vastly more expensive than the high end Cadillacs of 1988.
BTW, check out the Microsoft OS timeline and you will see that they do that just about EVERY four years. "
Really? Windows XP was released in 2001 and I am still using it 7 YEARS later. Sounds familar.
In the marketspaces where they competed, yes, they WERE better.
Remember, Apple doesn’t really compete on the enterprise server end, either.
Also, the Cadillacs of 1988 were crap. They were just dressed up Chevrolets, with the same crappy interior bits, and they fell apart just as fast.
If you want to get down to it, *9* years ago, Toyota released a car that made ALL the 89 Cadillacs look weak and lame - the LS400.
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