Mac Web Ad: Don't Give Up on Vista

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9 months ago • 2567 views

tags: ad, apple, pc, justin long, john hodgman, web, banner

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macrumors: The Apple advertisement features "Mac" and "PC" as played by Justin Long and John Hodgman in a web ad composed of two separate components. The first is a traditional 720x90 pixel horizontal leaderboard at the top of the page as well as a large vertical rectangle on the right side of the page feature the actors. (Several readers have noted a new web-only advertisement from Apple that has appeared on a number of sites, including News.com, Engadget.com, and PCMag.com.)

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Creative, but shameless.

written by RedSky

| 9 months ago | CH

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Vista is running just fine for me, and I can't stand how dumbed-down Macs are (I use XP, Vista, Tiger, and Leopard on a nigh-daily basis, so I'm not just talking out of my ass here), but it's still creative.

written by nibiyabi

| 9 months ago | CH

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well besides a few driver issues that aren't microsofts fault I have to say vista is my new fav OS.

written by Fade

| 9 months ago | CH

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How do you mean dumbed down nibiyabi? I use both quite a lot too- and I don't get that.

If you want to talk dumbed-down, how about a little dog that sniffs around when you try to search (XP), or a firewall that blocks incoming and outgoing at every move (Vista).

I like having a unix terminal built in Vi, perl and all the other command line goodies that I can't get on Windows.

written by dag

| 9 months ago | CH

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I watched this ad live on CNet's Vista home page. Brilliant.

written by CrushBug

| 9 months ago | CH

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yes this ad is great because Leopard has no bugs and nobody is downgrading to Tiger and I don't still use 10.2 for fear of toasting my powerbook.

written by MINK

| 9 months ago | CH

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Another bizarre instance where one video won't let me register votes.

written by Krupo

| 9 months ago | CH

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I like macs and pcs, and work on both, but honestly feel that vista is a better OS than anything mac has out right now. For too long I would wish I had a mac for the cool fresh feel, but with vista I feel like I'm using the coolest os out. Aesthetics mean alot to me and i think vista's look and feel are spot on. For the first time in I don't know how long I like using my computer for the OS alone.(ok after a few tweaks to remove nags and get things set, and yeah sure I need twice as much ram)

Mac software feels tired to me(except for the remote and flip down media playing), while the design of mac products is still amazing. I guess you can run boot camp or parallels with vista if you want the mac ID, which is great, but I love my new carbon fiber sony laptop.

If their is one thing I dislike about macs it is their DRM stance, crap software(itunes), and crap support for windows they provide for their ipods. (oh and their rather stupid ads about macs and pcs)

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