Posted on 08/21/2008 9:20:49 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple has begun airing another new "Get a Mac" ad, "Off The Air," on U.S. network and cable television.
In the ad, "PC" is confronted by "Mac" and a Mac Genius who explain that dumping a Windows PC and switching to a Mac is easier than ever since when you buy a Mac, the Apple Store Mac Genius will transfer your files from your old PC to your new Mac for free.
At this point, Apple makes one of their most brutally honest points ever, as "PC" responds:
Oh, no, no, no, no... My frustrated users don't need to hear about that. See, fear of switching is the foundation of customer loyalty for PCs.
"PC" then rolls down a fake color bar chart over the camera and makes a continuous "beep" noise as he takes the spot "Off The Air."
MacDailyNews Take: Bill Gates "PC" loves badly faked things. Poor simulations are his life.
Apple "Get a Mac" ad: Off The Air
See the ads in various sizes and qualities via Apple.com here.
Most vertical business solutions that run under XP and break under Vista do not have free updates and the “fix” is to rewrite them, which is why business is not adopting Vista.
FYI, even if you don’t want to run Mac OS X, you can run the Mac hardware purely as a Windows machine and still get a better experience. Why?
Because as even PC Magazine attests, Apple writes better Windows drivers for their hardware than *any* other maker does for their own hardware.
Like I said when I replace my pc I’ll go with a mac.
It's true, if you install Windows on the Mac.
As a guitar player, you may be interested in some of the music software available for Macs. All Macs include the GarageBand application as part of the iLife software suite, at no extra charge. Apple sells some other software like Logic Studio and Logic Express.
Some amazing Mac software like Direct Note Access is available from independent software developers.
I’m currently using guitar pro 5 on my laptop along with some other software to slow songs down to learn them. But thanks for the info.
Guitar Pro 5 is available for Mac too. No Windows required.
LOL! Parallels or VMWare. Take your pick.
And use it less and less, the more you learn about MacOS!
This is what gets me about Apple....the OS is pretty much a well supported flavor of FreeBSD. All Apple adds to computing technology is a pretty GUI and fruity aesthetics. Apple only has a single set of peripherals to support....if they do not do an outstanding job writing the drivers for those peripherals with what you pay for that hardware, I’d be angry!!!!
Apple hardware is so overpriced it makes me puke. For over $1K less I can get a machine just as powerful as any nutty looking Mac running something like OpenSuse or that version of Suse Linux Novell supports (I forget the name right now) and have pretty much the look and feel of an Apple machine with outstanding support should I need it (only $60/year too).
Seriously, anyone who blindly supports Apple needs their head examined :)! If you just need a computer for email and web browsing & can afford their outrageous price, by all means, support Al Gore, Steve Jobs, and that filthy hippy Steve Wozniak (who ironically got ripped off by Jobs when he designed Breakout for Atari by Jobs), and buy Apple. If you are a confused metrosexual and need the fruity touch screen that clearly rips off anything Nintendo did for the DS for your phone, please, throw your money away and buy Apple. If you want to scream to someone, “Hey, look at me!!!! I am important!!! I am a non-conformist!!! I like to overpay for stupid crap that looks like rejected props from Woody Allen’s move “Sleeper”, please, buy an Apple product!
If you want to get a nice look on the face of a clueless Apple zealot, ask them about Apple TV, AU/X, that friggin goofy PDA they made in the 90s (Newton...that’s it), and those horrible puck mice. You’ll get the strangest looks as they are not familiar with the litany of Apple failures. Now we have a wafer thin pile of overpriced garbage notebook PC and annoying commercials starring a douche bag and filthy hippy. Great!!! I could care less where their stock is today....it’s merely a reflection of how stupid society is with computer hardware!!! :-)!
Just to spite this stupid company, I am installing both Vista 64 AND some version of Linux on my new AMD based PC this weekend. So what if I can fry an egg on my Quad Core! I’d rather pay for a buggy Microsoft or AMD product than steal a copy of OSX from the filth @ Apple.
Next time I see a damn Mac commerical, I am throwing a bottle thru my TV so that I have an excuse to go out and buy myself one of those 72” Mitsubishi DLPs I saw the other day :-P.
This whole PC vs. Apple debate is pretty much like “McCain vs. Obama” for me.....sure, I’d prefer McCain to win, but I still wind up with a turd at the end of the day....and installing Linux works, but I cannot earn a living since a few tools I use are not supported in Linux at a price I can afford. However, under no circumstances will I spend more than I need to to buy a flashy computer that is the exact same as any machine out there....in fact, worse in many ways!!!!
I really miss the days when the Commodore Amiga ruled the world and Atari didn’t mean “another half-assed game for 3rd generation consoles”. I wonder what a 6502 could do clocked at 10GHz using modern silicon processes ;-)!
oh I can tweak plenty in vista
I do like OsX because I am very family witn *nix bsd ect. unfortunately I dont want to pay the Apple premimuim for the experience. From some of my readings a few years ago you can even use debain packages in Osx it probably has matured alot since then. just type in apt-get and get what ever free package you want.
I like OSX myself...but I simply have grown intolerant to the ignorance that surrounds your average Apple zealot!
This recent commercial sealed the deal for me! There is NOTHING innovative about their products aside from the overinflated price you pay for the pretty electronics!!!!
As far as using Unix/Linux/BSD packages, the GUIs those OSes use these days (namely Gnome and KDE) are as good as OSX in my humble opinion....I’m one of those angry older people that still prefer command prompts and VI, so a monochrome terminal suits me just fine. But if I want something pretty and has software I can use with 97% of the world, I’ll stick to Windows or Linux. Anything Apple sells is unsupported as far as I can see....you can’t even get good games for it :-)!!!
Not been paying attention, have you? Most of the new top games are either simultaneous release for Win and Mac or the Mac is at most ~6 months behind.
Also, please tell me where you can get an all-in-one like the iMac for $199. I’d be anxious to hear!
FYI - anything you can use with Linux you can use with Mac OS X if you have source to compile from. The reverse is not true. Therefore, Linux is LESS compatible.
Oh, and my many victims on ~PR~09/~IA~09 and the related servers would disagree with you over there being no games for the Mac.
http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/8.2.0.203:2302/
#1 all time scorer on the server. I’m in the top 10 on a number of other servers. It is to the point that people will join a game, notice that I’m on the other team, say “Oh ****, it’s Spectre,” and quit.
And most of that score was run up on an old G4 Mac Mini.
So, managed to “tweak” all that DRM in Vista out of the system yet?
Watch what Vista does when you connect big LCD displays via DVI that don’t have HDCP, the lame DRM for video. Guess what? Microsoft won’t let Vista display pixel one on that display. So you get to go buy a new display.
Isn’t that nice?
“Not been paying attention, have you? Most of the new top games are either simultaneous release for Win and Mac or the Mac is at most ~6 months behind.”
Great! Six months behind! Just what I want to do if I waste time with games...wait 6 months!!! How much would I have to pay for a Mac that runs Crysis and full frame rate?
“Also, please tell me where you can get an all-in-one like the iMac for $199. I’d be anxious to hear!”
Great...an obsolete G4 PowerPC based machine....outstanding. I’d rather dump $200 on a Vectrex.
I was able to get a 2.0GHz Dual Core AMD w. 1GB RAM and a 200GB hard drive running Vista for $199. Granted it doesn’t have monitor like that pile of garbage G4, but it blows away that G4 in terms of performance. Moreover, I don’t have to overpay for the hardware and can readily get any application I desire to run on that platform.
“FYI - anything you can use with Linux you can use with Mac OS X if you have source to compile from. The reverse is not true. Therefore, Linux is LESS compatible.”
OK...you have no idea what you are talking about (typical for a Mac user). Please elaborate on this nonsensical statement you just made! If I have the source for an application, I can compile it to ANY machine provided the libraries are supported. Being a Linux user since 1995, I can assure you that virtually all GNU or open sourced applications will compile just fine under Linux on an x86 architecture. What you are saying is just plain nonsense. Please learn a few things before making such idiotic claims.
Are you through?
Got it off your chest?
Good.
“Oh, and my many victims on ~PR~09/~IA~09 and the related servers would disagree with you over there being no games for the Mac.”
Fantastic. Good for you.
Halo is how old now? The sequel was outstanding on the Xbox and Bungie, despite being Mac zealots, are a VERY talented lot of game designers. But you’re bragging about Halo scores?
At least try Warhawk on the PS3 man.... :-P
PS Yeah, I’m being mean on “purpose”....please don’t get *that* offended my friend :-)!
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