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Three new "Get a Mac" ads released today...
Apple ^ | 05/12/2009 | Apple's Ad Agency

Posted on 05/12/2009 8:57:34 PM PDT by Swordmaker

Apple has released three new "Get a Mac" ads starring Justin Long and as "Mac" and John Hodgman as "PC."

My Favorite takes a stab at the Microsoft PC Search ads: Elimination.

PC shows that PCs have good customer service just like Macs in Customer Care.

Finally, PC has his own talk radio show PC Choice Chat".


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Humor
KEYWORDS: apple; bestcomputer; coolkidsaredoingit; justinlong; maccult; macintosh; spamiswindows; spammer
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1 posted on 05/12/2009 8:57:34 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 50mm; 6SJ7; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; Aliska; aristotleman; ...
New "Get a Mac" ads released tonite... PING!


Get a Mac Ad Ping!

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

2 posted on 05/12/2009 8:58:36 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

Here's your Mac!

3 posted on 05/12/2009 9:10:21 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Swordmaker
Finally, PC has his own talk radio show PC Choice Chat".

Clearly a liberal poke at conservative talk radio hosts. Wonder if those Apple morons realize that Limbaugh uses Apple Macs exclusively.

4 posted on 05/12/2009 9:15:34 PM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: Swordmaker

Elimination is good. Thanks for the ping.


5 posted on 05/12/2009 9:19:58 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: anymouse

It’s also a poke at Air America and other *left* wing radio hosts, who are actually more likely to flush callers in that fashion.


6 posted on 05/12/2009 9:23:44 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Swordmaker

I’d buy a Mac, but I’m not gay.


7 posted on 05/12/2009 9:27:37 PM PDT by Ron Jeremy (sonic)
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To: anymouse
Wonder if those Apple morons realize that Limbaugh uses Apple Macs exclusively.

They do. So do we non-moron Mac users.

8 posted on 05/12/2009 9:28:42 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: MrEdd

Yes, and it also has a very simple point and click interface with no viruses. :D


9 posted on 05/12/2009 9:28:55 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Swordmaker

Same old trite stuff. I hear their next ad will make it seem like PCs give you herpes. Watch out PC world! /s

But I guess Justin Long has to be kept in steady work somehow.


10 posted on 05/12/2009 9:30:32 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (Enemy of the state since 1978!)
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I hear their next ad will make it seem like PCs give you herpes. Watch out PC world! /s

I think that the PC world already has multiple instances of the equivalents of herpes for PCs... no need to make it "seem" like PCs give it...

11 posted on 05/12/2009 9:33:42 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Ron Jeremy

I’d buy a PC, but I fix PCs for a living. I don’t want to have to work on mine before I can do productive work.

Thanks for playing.


12 posted on 05/12/2009 9:36:44 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: VanDeKoik

PCs can give other PCs the equivalent of herpes.


13 posted on 05/12/2009 9:37:32 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Swordmaker
linuxman2

I'm one of the third choice people. Be afraid.

14 posted on 05/12/2009 9:41:51 PM PDT by Nateman (See one of the funniest threads on Free Republic by clicking on the picture.)
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To: Swordmaker

Maybe Barry will hand them out free to stimulate us.


15 posted on 05/12/2009 10:06:23 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Nateman

I’ve tried going all linux. The computer I am typing on now is the latest Ubuntu...

The big problem that I am having so far as that people send me powerpoints that don’t open properly. Unfortunetly, that means I have to get on one of my XP computers sometimes.


16 posted on 05/12/2009 10:19:56 PM PDT by Ron Jeremy (sonic)
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To: Swordmaker

Macs are awesome I can run Excel, Word, check my email, and download porn all at the same time.


17 posted on 05/12/2009 10:43:09 PM PDT by exist
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To: Ron Jeremy
I use Ubuntu myself. I've been able to at least get the images to work in powerpoint.I've found with Linux some hacker somewhere has solved the problem most of the time.


The best way to think of Linux is like owning a car. Most people just want it to run, some like to open up the hood and tinker with things. While it has become much easier to use Linux nowadays it still is mostly for the those who like computers just because it is a computer.

18 posted on 05/12/2009 10:54:27 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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To: Swordmaker

I got a big surprise yesterday, at my pastor’s office. I was volunteering for some work there at the church and afterwards, I was chatting with the pastor and he said he got a new computer..., he said an “Apple” ...

I said, “What?!” LOL...

It turns out that a member of the church asked him to come along with him and look around for a new computer. The pastor thought he was just going along and helping the member find a computer for himself (and not the pastor...). It turns out, that the last stop (about three stores) was the Apple Store in Tulsa, and he had the pastor look at it and tell him what he thought. He was being nice and said it looked great, so the member bought it, and then gave it to him... hoo boy! :-)

Anyway, I noted that someone said (here on this thread) that they might buy one, except they weren’t gay... LOL...

Well, my pastor is an former Marine, a former police officer, a second-amendment rights supporter (gun rights), and he affirms he’s an “extreme right winger” (per Obama nuts) and he definitely preaches, at the pulpit, against homosexuality — but — he loves his new Mac. :-)

It’s an iMac, the top-of-the-line one and the biggest screen. So, now, I get to help the pastor learn some “tricks of the trade” on the Macintosh and get him familiar with the programs. He’s been using a Windows machines for years and so he’s adjusting to the Mac now.

So..., y’all — get a Mac!!


19 posted on 05/13/2009 4:00:46 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Ron Jeremy
Back in the Dark Ages when I was in ROTC in college, they taught us about the "line of demarcation." When you plan a battle, you start the plan with the assumption that your forces will be in certain positions at a certain time. For any given unit, the position it is supposed to be in at the start of the action is called its "line of demarcation." There is no plan to get to that point, you assume that your forces can all be there at the start.

So if your forces find themselves engaged with the enemy while they are moving to the line of demarcation, and have to fight to get there, your plan already is out of kilter, and is likely to be a complete lash up.

When I decide to use my computer my plan does not include running an antivirus program or debugging some conflict, and if I do have to do that I am out of sorts and not getting what I want from my experience. The virus problem on Windows is such that it takes a lot of the fun out of using it. Even if I didn't have a virus on my machine there was enough going on to make me wonder if I did. With the Macs there is so much less concern about viruses that it constitutes an entirely different experience.

It's possible that Windows 7 will get you out of that miasma; I certainly hope so. Until then, well, I just think that antivirus software is a band aid and not a solution. Viruses are a threat that was assumed away in the early PC era, and the legacy of that bad assumption is a Sword of Damocles over the head of any PC user. Unix was made with the threat of malicious software in mind, and is inherently much more robust. OS X was developed from a Unix basis and, Leopard gets UNIX 03 certification (in the Leopard version and running on an Intel processor) it is entitled to the Unix trademark. I actually do encounter problems from time to time on my Mac, but at least I don't worry that it is a virus - the solution has always proven to be what I didn't know, which in all but one instance has seemed obvious in retrospect. Linux tends to the same characteristics - except that OS X is better suited to the user who doesn't want to be a computer guru. And that Apple provides customer service on a personal basis if you can get to an Apple Store. For some of us, trying to save money by settling for an inferior OS and dodgy customer service seems like false economy.


20 posted on 05/13/2009 4:22:40 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
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