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Apple fires 'smug little twit'
The Inquirer ^ | 11/9/2006 | Nick Farell

Posted on 11/09/2006 5:37:46 PM PST by 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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: apple; appleguy; arrogantpuke; mac; macguy; pcguy; twit
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To: ThomasThomas; Echo Talon
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!

221 posted on 11/10/2006 9:37:36 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

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


222 posted on 11/10/2006 9:38:45 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: CedarDave

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


223 posted on 11/10/2006 9:40:44 PM PST by Barney59 ("Another day on the planet")
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To: Echo Talon
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.
224 posted on 11/10/2006 9:46:18 PM PST by ThomasThomas (I don't hear voice's that other people hear.)
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To: ThomasThomas

LOL! Was the guy a "Mac" guy?


225 posted on 11/10/2006 9:47:15 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: ThomasThomas
I think he was money manager. And really liked bananas (lots of pictures).

OH, he was probably a Jim Webb FAN! LOL

226 posted on 11/10/2006 9:47:53 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
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.
227 posted on 11/10/2006 9:56:33 PM PST by ThomasThomas (I don't hear voice's that other people hear.)
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To: ThomasThomas

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


228 posted on 11/10/2006 9:58:35 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
Take a look at this, to bad you cant do that with a Mac! Scroll down there more than one page...
229 posted on 11/10/2006 9:59:52 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Swordmaker

shoot look at post #229


230 posted on 11/10/2006 10:00:47 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Swordmaker

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


231 posted on 11/10/2006 10:04:47 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Swordmaker
Here is the SuperPI MOD if you want to try it out on your own system and compare
232 posted on 11/10/2006 10:16:03 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
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?
233 posted on 11/10/2006 10:21:53 PM PST by ThomasThomas (I don't hear voice's that other people hear.)
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To: AmishDude

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.


234 posted on 11/10/2006 10:25:57 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (Election 2006: For Republicans, the results were comprehensive.)
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To: ThomasThomas
Which OSs can run something like this with out going to server OSs

WinXP, Vista... either one.

235 posted on 11/10/2006 10:26:44 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: ThomasThomas

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


236 posted on 11/10/2006 10:29:14 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: ThomasThomas
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)
237 posted on 11/10/2006 10:35:11 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: ThomasThomas
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

238 posted on 11/10/2006 10:39:52 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
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.

239 posted on 11/10/2006 11:16:23 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

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


240 posted on 11/10/2006 11:18:26 PM PST by Echo Talon
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