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Good Guys Use Macs

Posted by pudge on from the duh dept.

Annamite writes "Wired news reports about the Mac as 'a good guy' conspiracy, while the traitor was busy hauling a Dell laptop. Can product placement be even better than this. What is next? OS war on screen? You can betcha anything comes out of AOL/TimeWarner would be of AOL/Netscape, but can Bill Gates buy the rest of the movies industry?" I've seen every episode of 24 so far, and did notice certain Macs and PCs being used, but didn't pay attention to who used which one. I probably would have been killed by the traitor.

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  1. Good? by Perdo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Apple Computer outspends all other PC companies in product placement and is perhaps more active in the area than any other technology company outside of Microsoft,"

    ...and that makes them good???

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  2. as an intern by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was told by one of the executive team that there one person who does their product placement and has done it for years. They will not allow the 'bad' characters to use macs - or they pull support from the producers. If only good guys use macs, then apple gives them all sorts of support. Whoever this guy is is damn good at their job because you see (or maybe you notice) soo many more macs on TV and in movies than anything else.

  3. Re:Shows that feature Macs by KH · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Seinfeld always featured a Mac in Jerry's apartment throughout the series, I think.

    It was nice to see generations of Macs in the last episode--from SE (SE/30?) to LC or duo to 20th Anniversary Mac to iMac (?)

    Does anyone have a concrete list of Macs in Seinfeld?

  4. 24 by Hank+Scorpio · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, ya know ... I just noticed last night during the season finale of "24" ... the bad girl traitor character used a Mac powerbook. And not only that, but it looked like she was running Linux on it! I distinctly saw a GNOME-ish window manager and desktop on her screen. With the glowing apple prominently showing on the back of the screen.

    So... I don't think this rule is really a general rule. I suspect that Apples are common in TV/Movies because the people who create those shows are creative-types that probably prefer Apples.

    HS