Those Apple computer adverts on TV

[dennisw]

       

http://www.apple.com/switch/

Are these new Apple advertisements the most idiotic on TV these days? They seem to pitched to people who are intelligent but are hapless boobs when it comes to computers.

 

 

 

[dennisw]

Half of them are artistes and writers?

[lsee]

I'm more offended by the Gateway commercials, which feature a scantily clad woman supposedly parodying a sexy music video. Naturally this commercial came on while my kids were watching a perfectly acceptable family show during the family hour. The advertisers don't seem to care who they offend.

[July 4th]

Have you seen the one where they talk about the blue screen of death? I've been running W2k for three years, and I have yet to see it...

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I think the ads are cute, but that DJ chick is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too skinny.

[Mr. K]

I agree- the pitch seems to be: "hey we can do the same stuff Windows does, so buy us instead"

.. uh... WHY..?

What are they teaching these gen-Xers in marketing school nowadays... nothing?? How about we start with "find a need, and fill it" which is followed by "CREATE a need if you have to... then fill it",

These ads seem to say "were just like them- but were NOT them, so buy us"

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

I've noticed the one woman who says that the company she works for has all PC's at work, but she's got a Mac at home. Yeah, that's a great sales tactic. If you're serious about your computing (like businesses are) use PC's, but an apple is good enough for the home user...

[LasVegasMac]

Apple advertisements the most idiotic

Nuff said.

LVM

[Senator Pardek]

Are those mugshots?

[FUMETTI]

I am shocked that nobody mentioned the Dell Computer ad, with the most obnoxious, suckup brat kid this side of Eddie Haskell (in fact, he seems to be modeled after the "Leave it to Beaver" loser). He makes me immediately hit the "mute" button even before his obnoxious "dude, you're getting a Dell" line.

[SpaceBar]

A few months back, I was browsing around a computer store and sat and fiddled with the new Macs. I'm a PC guy (linux, winblows) from way back, but recognised immediately that they had redeamed themselves from that ergonomic nightmare called the iMac (version 1). Apple displays are crisp and clear, the hardware seems rugged and well made, and from what I've heard are quite maintenance free for the end user who only wants a usable machine and doesn't care about the intricate workings under the hood. I think they have a good product and a viable alternative to a Microsoft box.

[Fracas]

I quarrel with 'intelligent', LOL. Obnoxious is the word I would use. I have not had the 'blue screen of death' once since I installed XP about 5 months ago.

IMO, the Dell ads grate, and the Gateway cow is preferable to Ted.

[Paleo Conservative]

Have you seen the one where they talk about the blue screen of death? I've been running W2k for three years, and I have yet to see it...

I would agree. Win2K is much more stable than Win9X or even Win NT 4. Also Win2K supports modern devices like USB and Firewire. The only thing I like better about XP (on my new laptop) is the independence between screen resolution and onscreen size of fonts, toolbars, icons, etc.

[SamAdams76]

Dear Apple:

Thanks for designing a computer that even a dork like me can use. I was using this horrid little Microsoft machine before and I just never could figure out how to use it. It was so complicated.

The Apple machine is so great. I can easily store all my Britney Spears MP3s on it and also all the pictures I have of my favorite wrestlers and body builders. I could never do those cool things on my Microsoft PC, or at least, I never could figure out a way.

I am just so happy with my Apple, as you can see by my picture. See my picture? I am so happy. Happy about my Apple. Besides, I am glad I don't use the Microsoft PC any more because I read somewhere that Bill Gates, who runs Microsoft, is a very bad man. I also read that Steve Jobs, who runs Apple, is a very good man. At least that is what I read. So I am so happy that I now have my Apple.

[willieroe]

Where are the "people of color" in the Apple commercials? Oh, I forgot, these people are supposed to be "hapless boobs", to use your words. (Hey, at least they aren't four white males pictured....)

[Mr. K]

me too. I have been running Win 2000 Pro on an old P.O.S. brand computer clone and it has made it run like a new machine- and has never crashed ONCE.

I am a computer software engineer- I work in Linux, NT, Unix, Sun OS, etc. etc. etc.. and I dont care what I use- as long as I get paid. (and I get paid very well)

[Kaslin]

I like Steve, the Dell Dude. He's cool

[kylaka]

I've been running NT 4.0 as a server since 1995, and the machine was only shut down twice for a clock/bios battery change. It runs 24/7/365. It has never crashed, ever. It's a 486 box too. (I really should upgrade, but it is plenty fast as a server, and nobody complains)

I run XPp on the desktop and it does very well. Occasionally it stumbles but recovers very well. It has only come to a screeching halt one time when I was pushing it to the limit multitasking.

[jimtorr]

"I've been running W2k for three years, and I have yet to see it..."

I work in an office with nine machines, just one year old, seven running NT 4.0 and two running W2k Pro, one of them mine. I've seen the blue screen of death five times (IT keeps count) in the past year.. I've had the floppy drive replaced, the CD drive replaced, the HD has had to be rebuilt three times and the original HD was killed entirely, and it had to be replaced. The other W2k machine had to have the HD rebuilt this past week.

I can't blame it on a bad batch of PC's, they were purchased at different times from different manufacturers. Mine is Dell, the other is Micron.

These machines are configuration controlled, I can't load any applications that are not on the approved list. Norton anti-virus is updated remotely for our CA office, and the IT folks in CA check all PC's weekly for unauthorized software and disk problems.

[chaosagent]

The hardware may look "rugged and well-made". But it's not.

Up until recently I contracted tech support for a large university in TX. We had over 1500 PC's and just 100 Apples. Yet we had over 3 times the repairs on the Apples as the PC's.

Monitors were the worst. They would fail right and left. Even brand-new out of the box. And since we were an authorized Apple Service Center, we had to fix the brand-new ones. We couldn't send them back.

The repair manual for the large Apple monitors specified the needed disassembly tools as "a sharp finger nail file and a dozen wooden popsicle stick. And no, I'm not kidding.

Instead of just being able to pop the case off the monitor, you had to pry a gap open with the finger nail file and then wedge a popsicle stick in the gap. You would continue this, working your way around the case, until about 3/4 way around, the case would suddenly pop off and go flying across the room. Kinda like breaking down a tire.

Ever wonder why the G4 Cube disappeared so fast? Out of 40 we had 6 basically smoke and melt. Why anyone would think you could package a whole computer in a 1 foot cube and depend on convection cooling.

And then there's my personal favorite - The Apple Color Laserwriter. The only color printer on the market that required regular OIL changes. And you didn't dare bump, move, or shake the printer in any way, or the silicone oil would slosh out all over the table. And was almost impossible to clean up.

And if you ever turned it off, it would take about 20 minutes to cycle and come back online.

Is it any wonder we are in the process of phasing out all Apples at the University.