I thought he told us that he was technically savvy?

The guy made an idiot of himself on national television. The Microsoft employees who approved this commercial without thinking about it are also idiots, but at least their stupid grinning faces aren’t plastered all over the TV.

I wish Microsoft would send me to buy a laptop. But I bet they would never publish that commercial.

The punchline should be “I’m a PC, I’m easily fooled by irrelevant specs into buying precisely the wrong product!” Classic!

McD

Recently I fail to move one friend from HP to Mac. He was trying to buy a Mac Aire, but finally he change is mind to a cheaper PC. He bought a touch screen HP. He is a lawyer. In one week he was in the middle of a battle against Vista, the anti virus software and the firewall, and then he came again to talk about his new Laptop.

I just ask one question:
-”How many minutes per day you thinking about your laptop?”
. Many. -he respond me-
-You know? I do not think about the machine. I think about my work only. – was my simple response.
-Sure?!

Of course, we do not need thinking about the machine, and how to install programs, in the last upgrade. We need time. And Mac brings beauty, performance, elegance and TIME.

We pay more, I say to him to be more productive.

Of course I have Windows inside [in quarantine mode] in my Mac. And Linux too just for fun.

“I can’t wait till my life is so simple that I could get away with using only my Air.”

By simple I mean all you need to do is browse the web, send a few emails from your gmail/pop account and exchange, enterprise, and business use is no longer needed.

I’m a consultant that supports probably 150-200 users in the bay area, I’d say about 1/3 of them use Mac’s. I recieve twice as many calls from individuals who use OSX. How do I do this, how do I do that, how can I share this file with another user, how do I connect to the server, how come I have duplicate contacts on exchange, why’s my iphone calendar always screwing up, what do you mean I have to pay $19.99 for a piece of software that was free when I had a PC Laptop.. etc etc..

Keep buying into the Mac dream kiddies, you’re laptop that “never crashes” is making me a fortune.

It’s obvious what they are selling here.. computers that run MS are about $1000 cheaper than a comparable Mac, and they do what the average consumer who doesn’t define themselves based on their gadgets needs them to do.

Also with the incredible popularity of the netbooks (sub $400), Apple is falling way behind because yes, I believe the general public is sold on that Apple is a “better brand” and “easier to use” (I’m saying sold as in because of the advertisements), it doesn’t mean that Apple will necessarily sell more computers in this economy.

At this point, people just want something that does what they need and at a good, cheap, price-point.

It is amazing to watch a supposedly grown adult sputtering and grasping for reasons to hate an ad. Are you now going to track this guy down and try to harass him into switching to a Mac like everyone did with the first girl in the ads? Or are you just going to try and find out personal information about him to publish to the Internet, because he dared to make a different computer choice than you would?

If you ever get frustrated and wonder why people talk about Macheads as though they were a crazy cult of unhinged lunatics, your article, or most specifically growing series of articles, on the subject of these ads would be a prime example. To everybody but you, these ads are amazingly straightforward. Person has a budget, and they buy a PC. It happens every day, and this ad is completely representative of how it plays out in about 90% of those cases.

Now I know that to the trust-fund technorati, it seems like you would have to be some kind of inbred trailer trash to ever do something as common as putting a dollar value on something as incredibly important to your lifestyle as a computer, but to that 90% of the population who doesn’t bring home mid six figures a year, EVERYTHING has a budget, because every penny they spend is a penny that can’t be spent on something else.

So quit trying to paint these ads as though it is some huge deception. The simple fact is that everyone knows they could buy a Mac, as years of unavoidable Mac ads have been telling us, and fewer than 10% of people (and fewer still every day this depression deepens) actually ever make that choice. If you think all these people are stupid or unsophisticated, or ignorant, or whatever, then fine, that is your opinion. Just quit whining about how unfair and confusing and pointless these ads are, because you just make yourself, and by proxy all Macheads, look out of touch and like a bit of an ass. We can all tell that you, and the whole Apple community, are doing everything you can to attack these ads specifically because you recognize how effective they will be. You aren’t fooling anyone.

You don’t like seeing Macs marginalized as fashion items for elitists, as the ads do. That is understandable. Unfortunately, the Machead response to these ads just reinforces that perception with all the talk of luxury cars, and how unimportant an extra grand is, and the like. When you’re in a hole, stop digging. You are never going to be able to both have your sense of superiority AND win a populist argument. You don’t get to croon about how you have the BMW of computers, AND avoid looking like one of those douchebags strutting around showing off his BMW. Apple and their fans have spend decades now telling PC users how stupid they are for using a PC. It was inevitable that Microsoft would eventually hit on the idea of showing these “stupid” people in a favorable light, thus making the people who call them stupid look bad. Live with it.

Please, if you are going to make up figures, at least make them believable. If you had said something like 8 out of 10 USC film students buy a Mac, then it might have flown, but 8 out of 10 of all college students is a really big number of people. Far bigger than Apple’s entire market share.

come on my neck……..and try it
i don’t care if it is PC or MAC, i use anyway just adobe and firefox
two times 17inch, two times proc power, two extra screen what i can use…………………….all together four screen

and please live me alone with those battery and techinical problems, i fnd my way (i don’t go in the desert)