My point was that these commercials are clearly being effective if they are making the fanboys cry so much.

“People making real money are often willing to pay for better quality tools, a nicer working environment, and fewer hassles.”

Which people on crunchgear have proven time and time again Windows and MacOS are the same in that regard.

Is it personal?

GUESS WHAT? Its a PC!

Care to give the reasoning you don’t want to “touch a PC ever again”?

Here’s the thing about that tax return: It doesn’t show the income statement! People making real money are often willing to pay for better quality tools, a nicer working environment, and fewer hassles. The results show up in the bottom line.

With Windows you are given an Automatic Rifle

With Linux you are given the INSTRUCTIONS and PARTS for an orbital satellite laser array, have fun getting it working.

The “I’m a Mac and i’m a PC” ads? Forget misleading, those are flat-out lies…. and guess what? They are ALSO played by actors.

Mac vs PC is like Gun vs Sword. And in Linux I have to craft my own wooden dagger.

What he says is technically true. Of laptops sold at brick and mortar retail outlets for over $2,000, the majority of that specific small segment of the market are Apple laptops, followed close behind by Sony. The bigger question would be, how important a market segment is that in a world where the biggest growth category is sub-$500 netbooks.

Of course to that you get the typical Machead answer seen in the article “well just wait until Apple does____ at some unspecified point in the future. Then you will really be eating crow!”

WRONG

MACs are pretty much entirely PC parts now, the ONLY difference is the motherboard, everyting, even the CPU, is the same off-the-shelf part you would find in a Dell.

The Toshiba Qosmio series are some of the most powerful and high-end gamign laptops you will find today. Even th starter model at $1500 BLOWS THE PANTS off of practically any Mac laptop, and even most desktops. Far higher quality parts (especially the speakers) at a fraction of the price.

“But Apple owns 60 percent of that market.”

Ummm, what? Last I checked Apple has less than 10% of market share over PCs.

“It’s kind of stating the obvious. Yep, PCs are cheaper. And yes, some cars don’t survive crashes as well, they’re cheaper!”

Except that Macs are JUST as likely to crash as a PC. This isn’t 1998 anymore.

All us “Apple haters,” which is to say the 97% of the world population who choose any one of 1,000 other companies as our computer hardware vendor of choice, get worked up because of posts like this, which claim to point out “illogic” but then end up just parroting the same old “it must be better, because it costs more” unreason that is the hallmark of you Macheads.

It is the same lack of reasoning that gave rise to the Bernie Madoffs of the world. It can’t be a scam, because he won’t even talk to you unless you are worth millions, and look how prestigious his client list is. There’s no way that many people with that much money could ever be fooled by the oldest scam in the books!

Stupidity hurts regardless of what platform you are on.

Its a COMMERCIAL, what do you expect?

Second, they are not trying to entertain you, MS is more professional than that, they are trying to make a point, and by how much Apple fanboys seem to hate these commercials, they are clearly winning in that regard.