New Apple Campaign Target PC Flaws

sodul writes"Apple just started a new campaign to emphasize the advantages of Mac versus a regular tasteless PC. The ads represent a young cool looking man (Mac) and a white collar in his 40's (not cool, PC). In one of the ads the PC repeat itself several times because it had to reboot. In an other one (and maybe the most aggressive of all) PC is sick because of a virus, while Mac is healthy. You can watch the new spots on Apple's site "

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This comment target lack of proof-reading.

[Mortice]

"In one of the ads the PC repeat itself several times because it had to reboot."

"In an other one ... PC is sick because of a virus, while Mac is healthy."

Is the submitter actually a robot manufactured by Apple to demonstrate what happens when you make a language engine out of MS Office's grammar checker?

*sigh*

[Descalzo]

The thing that struck me about the ad I saw last night was the way the PC and Mac users were dressed up. I feel like I am not cool enough to own any Apple products. The story of my life, sadly.

Ever notice how Macheads never comb their hair? It must be like buying a Volkswagen.

Re:Dumb. PC==Mac. Mac==PC

[Ohreally_factor]

I'm starting to seriously question your credentials, man.

The two cases where a mac user uses the term PC are:

1) Disparagingly, as in a comparison to Macs

2) Defensively, when claiming that Macs are PCs, since PC stands for Personal Computer.

It's in Chapter 1 of How to Be an Irritating Fanboy, page 17.

Macs don't freeze?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think when the PC guy freezes, they shoul hit the Mac guy with a big spinning beachball!

Re:Doesn't work

[jcr]

Another reason why this might well not work is that if you go on the site it doesn't even seem to work in Linux

I'm sure you can play .mov files if you just spend a day or so reasearching what's available that passes ideological requirements, and then download it, build it, debug it, configure it for your GPU...

Well, that's life with Linux.

-jcr

Re:The sick with a virus ad...

[finkployd]

Yup, any day now. What with this commercial egging them on, and CERT's "sky is falling" report that says they expect Mac viruses and spyware to sharply rise. It will happen, just you all see. Maybe not right now, but soon. Well, eventually. You will know when it does. I know we have been saying this for a while but seriously, just give it time. It has nothing to do with system security, or response to vulnerabilities, or anything like that, it is simply a function of how popular something is. OS X will soon become a cesspool of viruses and spyware, it HAS to happen if they get more popular, popularity is the ONLY reason windows has this problem.

Finkployd

Great

[suv4x4]

Way to convince me, Apple

Re:The Linux Guy

[Golias]

Your sig would actually has 4 different values:
00
01
10
11

So, it should read as such:
There are 1 types of people in this world, those who can count in binary and those who can't.

You just established yourself as one of the ones who can't.

10 = zero in the "ones" plus one the "twos" column. In base-10, you would write that as "2".

1 in binary is the same as it is in base-10 or hex. It's 1. You can't have "one types."

You also made an enormously stupid fencepost error.

You don't assign one item as "0" when counting how many things you have. Even if you do say something like "the apples in this basket are numbered 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4", you still have FIVE apples in your basket.

Also, where do you get 11 from??? 11 is more than 10. He said 10 types of people. Counting them would be done thus:

1.
10.

Done.