Apple fires 'smug little twit'

The Inquirer ^ | 11/9/2006 | Nick Farell

[Vermonter]

No the other one

By Nick Farrell: Thursday 09 November 2006, 08:51

MAKER OF entertainment gear, Apple has decided to dump its 'Mac Guy' advertisements because the character is a 'smug little twit'. According to Radar Online, the advertising campaign was designed to show a PC guy and a Mac Guy talking about the advantages of their different systems. Of course the Mac Guy was supposed to win the argument.

Alas while viewing audiences felt that while the Mac Guy may have proved his case, most of them wanted to pummel the smug little twit into a coma and jump on his bleeding body until the cops arrived.

In fact most of them liked the PC guy, John Hodgman, better, which was not really the point.

The Mac Guy was Justin Long, whose agent has confirmed that he is no longer hawking Macs for Apple and was getting on with his memorable film career. When the ads came out, Seth Stevenson, ad critic for Slate, complained that Long was just the sort of unshaven, hoodie-wearing, hands-in-pockets hipster we've always imagined when picturing a Mac enthusiast.

[Swordmaker]

1. I went to a cubicle last month to re-image a computer for a new user XP and the previous resident had a thread posted by Swordmaker on the wall. Which included Echo Talon.

My God, Echo, we're famous... we are inspiring cubical denizens around the world!

[Echo Talon]

LOL! Its such fun(I hope that I can be of some entertainment value) ;)

[Barney59]

I would refrain from generalizing. Rush is an Apple enthusiast, so is Bill Gates for that matter...

[ThomasThomas]

The thread was something about Mac VS PC.

And a second about Bill Gates and college.

I think he was money manager. And really liked bananas (lots of pictures). People leave the strangest things when they leave a cubical.

[Echo Talon]

LOL! Was the guy a "Mac" guy?

[Echo Talon]

I think he was money manager. And really liked bananas (lots of pictures).

OH, he was probably a Jim Webb FAN! LOL

[ThomasThomas]

HP running windows 2000 for his work machine. Upgraded to XP. It had his Freeper id but I didn't recognize it so I can't remember. I see license plates that sound like FreeRepublic Ids. while driving, they are everywhere.

[Echo Talon]

Hmmm. OK who was in the cubicle with the banana's fess up already... :)

[Echo Talon]

Take a look at this, to bad you cant do that with a Mac! Scroll down there more than one page...

[Echo Talon]

shoot look at post #229

[Echo Talon]

Core2Dou 4.6GHZ. 11sec. 1M superPI... not to shabby.

[Echo Talon]

Here is the SuperPI MOD if you want to try it out on your own system and compare

[ThomasThomas]

I heard about the up coming quadcores. And those who really want power use a workstation with four processors. Which OSs can run something like this with out going to server OSs and would it take A 16 or a 4 processors license.

What is the plural of OS?

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Those commercials were so accurate.

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Darn. 67 posts into this thread to find that observation.

I thought they were very effective.

Windows is easy to use, and you can put it on any PC, but it's so complex and vulnerable - the administrator level security in Macs really is a better approach.

Sorry to see those end. I liked them.

[Echo Talon]

Which OSs can run something like this with out going to server OSs

WinXP, Vista... either one.

[Echo Talon]

I'm looking forward to Kentsfield(Core2Quad)... I run 3D Programs as a hobby and it would be wonderful.

[Echo Talon]

Here is Anand's Quad review, He used WinXP SP2 Scroll down lots of pages :)
(you can use the index at the bottom to skip around)

[Echo Talon]

We managed to get our QX6700 sample up to 3.2GHz (12 x 266MHz) at the CPU's stock voltage of 1.35V, which isn't bad at all considering we didn't employ any exotic cooling. Bumping the core voltage up to 1.3875V we were able to gain an extra 266MHz and run at 3.46GHz.

:D

[Swordmaker]

shoot look at post #229

Over Clocking is a hobbyist pastime.

The people who buy workstation level computers are more interested in the fastest speed that can reliably do their work, not speed for speed's sake. That is why most workstation level machines opt for Fully buffered Error Correcting Circuitry RAM rather than cheaper, faster RAM. It is a trade off of accuracy for speed.

[Echo Talon]

I'll take the 24/7 Prime Torture Test stable Overclocked machine.