That really helps me on my personal laptop.

Honestly I wish the Apple vs. Microsoft battle would end until Microsoft would actually build a consumer computer of their own. We could all go into the debate on which has better specs and which is truly faster but it wouldn’t serve a purpose. I personally prefer Macs. If I ever come across some money I’ll get one.

In my honest opinion, comparing Macs and Windows computers is pointless. Macs are always built to work directly with the OS and are meant to be strong and aesthetically pleasing. Their are plenty of Windows computers that are built the exact same way (but they cost about as much as a Mac.) It’s true that Apple doesn’t offer much choice when it comes to price ranges. But if they released rights to HP and Toshiba for third party Macs, we would see cheaper options available. But Apple won’t do that because they care too much about their good name to put their OS in the hands of a third party.

Also, I don’t understand why Microsoft is attacking Apple. Also every Mac owner I know has Boot Camp or Parallels installed to run Windows for work. Macs sell Windows to. (Albeit not as much as computers built for Windows. (Notice I’m avoiding the term “PC” because Macs are PCs as well.))

I think my rant is over. Like Anonymous above me I’ll probably be called and ignorant fag who is afraid to conflict. (And I bet one person does says I am light-heartedly out of spite with a stupid text smiley face.)

*sigh*

BTW, Small tits or not, I’d still bang her and show her the ways of a Mac.

Just a few of the things I’ve learned from these comments:
1. The only reason to buy a Mac is OSX
2. The only reason to buy a Mac is the build quality
3. OSX sucks compared to Windows
4. Windows sucks compared to Linux
5. Windows sucks compared to OSX
6. Real video editors use Final Cut Pro and AVID… unless they use Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere instead.
7. Fry’s Electronics is either universally agreed upon as the best electronics store in the world, or the worst, but it is most decidedly not anywhere in between.
8. Everybody who uses a Mac loves it to death… except for those who don’t.
9. Everybody who uses a PC loves it to death… except for those who don’t.
10. Apple’s support is better than Toshiba’s support which is better than Apple’s support which is better than Toshiba’s support.
11. Taking one side or the other, hyperbolically, makes you a terrible, blind fanboy incapable of seeing things objectively… but being objective means you’re “an ignorant fag who is afraid of conflict”.
12. Ram is like cupholders… which means you can buy it for 25 cents at a drugstore and hang it off the edge of your dashboard
13. Ram is like car seats, semi-permanently bolted into a vehicle and unable to be added to due to the limited capacity of the vehicle
14. Ram sticks are meant to be sat on or have drinks placed atop of them
15. The salesman is gay
16. You’re gay
17. I’m gay
18. Several people here “suck dicks”… which is apparently a bad thing, given the context with which this is said
19. The point of the ad is to sway people from Apple
20. The point of the ad is to sell Vista
21. The point of the ad is to tell the average consumer that Windows-based PCs are cheaper
22. The point of the ad is to tell professional filmmakers that Windows-based PCs are more powerful
23. Mac fans use horrible grammar
24. PC fans use horrible grammar
25. Most users of the internet at large UES HORRIBAL GRAMMER

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Oh, and 26. Her tits are small.

I thank you.

Why don’t you go back to fiddling with that Taiwanese knock-off piece of shit in your underwear, bitch boy?

Learn who your aristocratic masters are and know your place.

Pro film makers don’t need to dick around with dime store desktops. They just spend the cash they already have and buy what works out of the box. What a concept! ;)

Oh and by the way, fuck your face!

Buy a PC if you’re a whiny, cheap (pirating), controlling bastard that gets off on working on their computers half of the time and playing games instead of actually getting work done.

Buy a Mac if you’re serious about being a working professional in the graphics or film industry.

“The proof is in the pudding”.

Mac users rarely bitch or brag because they’re usually too busy kicking ass and going to the bank. ;)

Bill Gates ate a dick long ago when he first decided to create a knock-off of the single greatest OS ever created. Till this day, he’s still burping cum bubbles.

the film industry is unique in the number of people interested in it versus the number of people who actually make a living off of it.

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

The basic premise of the commercial is that she is a film maker. That’s the core question, and almost none of the comments above have touched on this.

POINT #1. VIRTUALLY EVERYONE WHO IS A FILM MAKER USES FINAL CUT PRO OR AVID. AND SHE CAN’T AFFORD AVID.

Having worked in the film industry for almost 10 years (yes, I am FILM maker, having actually worked with 35MM) I can assure you of this one basic fact. You either cut on Avid or you cut on Final Cut Pro. And FCP is crushing Avid except in the old school post houses and TV studios. Period, end of discussion.

Yes, there are plenty of seats with Avid, and it still has some features that FCP doesn’t, and it is a great product, but come on people, seriously. FCP is killing it. And Avid is going to have pretty anemic performance on the laptop she bought.

And for anyone who wants to pipe in about Premiere or other software, get real. If you want to work, you need to learn FCP.

POINT #2. IF YOU EDIT YOU NEED A BIG SCREEN

Editing video on anything less then 20″ sucks. I know, I’ve had to do it on my 13″ MacBook that is older and doesn’t support the bigger screens.

If she did want to use a laptop and can’t spend more than $2K, she should buy a 13″ macbook, add 2GB of RAM, then buy a 20″ monitor. Yes, for under $2K. Yes, it supports higher resolutions. And yes, then you can see what you are working.

If she’s on a budget and had a brain she’d buy the 24″ iMac with 2.97 gHz processor, 4GB of RAM, 640 GB HD for $1,800.

MS marketing, doing more spin.

“I’m a film maker”. What a joke. She’s got a DV Cam and she’s hoping her YouTube video will go viral.

So where does that leave us?

If you really want to work, you need Final Cut. That means you need a Mac. Sorry chic, you just blew $2K on a door stop.