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Justin Long No Longer A Mac
david.emery writes "Wired is reporting that Apple will be replacing Justin Long as its 'Mac' in their 'I'm a Mac/I'm a PC' ad campaign. John Hodgman, the personification of the PC, is reportedly shooting new commercials." From the article: "Even people who hate the campaign find their core idea compelling enough to endlessly satirize the series on YouTube. The one enduring criticism of the ads is that John Hodgman's PC is funnier and more likable than Justin Long's sleazy hipster doofus Mac. (just what was he saying to that hot new camera from Japan?) Hodgman is a riot (just read "The Areas of My Expertise" if you don't believe me), but I'm not sure how the new series of ads goes on from here. Is there a new Mac? Does Hodgman become the Mac?"
Yay, Hodgie! Open systems wins and Apple loses. :-)
right on time!
looks like he wasn't a LONG term employee!
PC is going to be the new Mac after he switches. For reals.
From TFA: O RLY, a huge movie star? Why, he was billed 17th in "Dodgeball"! And who could forget his star turn in "Jeepers Creepers II"! Why, I bet he's even bigger than Bronson Pinchot, and that dude's enormous!
Apparently the author hasn't seen "Accepted." Hilarious movie. I'll forgive him, though, because he used O RLY in a news article.
We're now analyzing an ad campaign's casting moves... must be a slow Saturday Night in geekland.
people like me found the PC dude much more amusing and likeable than the scruffy, elitist asshole Mac guy?
Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
Since they were both chosen as "types" of a machine ... what does this decision have to say about PC's versus a mac?
"Is it true that you squeeze photographs out your ass?"
Not the Americans dubbed in Japanese - these are Japanese actors doing the same shtick. Hi-larious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpYgNz6W6Gs
It was produced by G4.
"No, but I'll do some amazing things with your USB plug..."
Penny Arcade has got to be the single most unfunny thing on the face of the planet.
You should watch John Hodgman on this Daily Show clip, when they were talking about Net Neutrality.
(Sorry, looks like the more complete video was taken down)
Everything I need to know about copyrights I learned from Slashdot.
Justin Long as there will be new ads. I'm Justin love with the current ones, personally.
occultae nullus est respectus musicae - originally a Greek proverb
Maybe they can get the Hot Japanese Camera to play the Mac?
It would only be fitting. If imitation IS the most sincere form of flattery, then PCs should be awfully flattered. Waaaay back in the day, Macs had a selling point of being able to read PC diskettes. Then they started boasting that they could run PC programs. After that, you were able to buy an add-in card with a Pentium CPU, on which to run your Windows apps. Now, they run on Intel hardware, and you can boot into Windows.
As much as I respect Macs for what they are and do, for all of their "We're different" attitude, they just can't seem to stop with the "Me, too!" actions.
Ah, well. Here goes nothing, Maccers, start modding me down....
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
it looks like the only option is the PC
they say it is often more relevant then the comment above, all we know is its called the Sig!
The commercial needs some intimidating stars, to reflect the intimidating arguments Mac and PC users perenially fling at each other. I say we get Alan Rickman to be the Mac, and Christopher Walken to be the PC. Then users can choose the lesser of two evils...
Professional Dilettante
Justin Long has only been using Macs for a few years, from what I hear, just since they became trendy. But John Hodgman is the real deal—a Mac user since '84, and a talented writer in Brooklyn, too. I've seen him around the neighborhood, and all the girls go wild for him in real life. No kidding.
And now, a PSA from David Lynch.
What kind of nerd can't speak Japanese? Justin Long said: "Hajimemashite." ("Nice to meet you.") "Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu." ("Please treat me favorably.") "Arigatou." ("Thank you.") He has a terrible accent, but there's nothing filthy here.
If you kill the Mac, you become the Mac.
Okay, the ad about viruses was a good one, but the first of this series of ads I saw, the PC was complaining about not being able to run anything other than business software, and the Apple could run games and a bunch of other stuff. I was thinking, eh? Mac runs more games than the PC? Hell, a PC running Linux can probably run more games than a Mac (winex, and so on).
He says "Pleased to meet you" (two different phrases, but add up to that) and "Thank you" for the picture, and she says "Hey, hey, doesn't he (the PC) seem kinda geeky?"
FWIW he doesn't sound like he actually speaks japanese, just for the ad. But maybe he does. Yo, Justin, work on your accent! Ganbatte!
Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away.
There are some parody clips on youtube. Some of those clips include a third character: linux.
That looks like "The Rahmens", a very well known comedy duo in Japan. Here is a sample of their best work illustrating how to eat sushi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIb6ZSqal64&feature =PlayList&p=51CAE8F9A6BB401A&index=7
I could imagine someone else being in that position, but not really a different character.
Hodgman, as the PC person, is supposed to be the bumbling-buffoon comic relief.
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
Mac: Whatcha got there?
PC: Games.
Mac: Can I play?
PC: No.
Mac: Aww! No fair.
PC: All right. you can play them in 2 years, if you're lucky.
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Couldn't they replace both of these guys with Giselle Bundchen and another model? That would make these commercials more watchable.
So I guess that means we're saying "so Long" to the PC vs Mac ads?
I can tell you for a fact that a friend of mine was just on the crew of a recent shoot of more of these ads, including Justin Long. They were shot last week in LA. In fact, at least one more is being shot this week.
If you doubt me, keep an eye out for some of the new ads with Santa Claus in them. In one of them, PC guy offers to make Santa's naughty and nice list into a spreadsheet for him.
On the set, everybody loved PC guy. He was the much more likable person, as well as character. And PC guy actually uses a Mac IRL (but I pointed out that he would kinda have to given what Apple was paying him for a national spot).
I found the PC guy to be too obnoxious, I just want to hit him. The Mac guy seems like a fairly average Joe, reasonably likable. I don't get it. Elitist? He's got his hands in his pockets and he's wearing jeans. How is that elitist?! Anyway, the guy in the tie is always the elitist, it's a rule of nature.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
So jeans + sweatshirt = hippie? It's clearly not we jeans-wearing people that have a problem with elitism...
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
I always thought it would be great if a penguin waddled into those commercials and bitch-slap both of them.
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...It's more likely because his agent figured he was "hot stuff" which Apple couldn't live without and so he demanded too much money. Then Apple proceeded to say, 'Alright then. Goodbye', where then Long's agent had a massive 'oh crap' moment and heart attack.
"Everything worth innovating today will go to court tomorrow."
I just got my Macbook Pro this week. And now I wonder what the hell made me wait so long. It's really quite impressive.
My friends are taking bets on whether I end up the evangelical mac convert who can't ever shut up about it, or whether I end up the smug mac user who just grumbles and smirks.
Sig for hire.
"um, well, uh just like the PC with Google's Picasso, Pinnacle Studio/Ulead VideoStudio, and Sony Sound Forge." Except all those third-party apps are not integrated with each other or with Windows, so setting them to import/export from/to one another with a unified file browser isn't possible, not to mention not having access to embed your iTunes Store music purchases as tracks.
In fact, no third-party "iLife for PC" cocktail is as easy, intuitive, or great-looking as iLife on a Mac.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, START
Who wants to see more of Ellen Fleiss?
just what was he saying to that hot new camera from Japan?
hajimemashite -him
hajimemashite -her
yoroshiku onegai shimasu. -him
hajimemashite - How do you do?
yoroshiku onegai shimasu - Nice to meet you.
Later:
arigato - thanks
Can't really hear anything else.
I don't know anyone who actually likes those dumb ads, in fact it usually makes them hate Macs even more.
The usual responses I hear:
"PCs are no fun? Don't Macs get like, no games? What a bunch elitist assholes! Who gives a shit about making picture albums!"
"Macs are safer? Of course they are, you don't get to do anything with it because there's none of the software I use!"
"That Mac guy looks arrogant, not sure why. The PC guy looks friendlier though. Hey, in fact he looks a lot like that guy on that Jon Stewart show. Now THAT'S a funny guy."
Now tell me slashdot, am I living in some bizzaro world or are Apple really shooting themselves in the foot?
(Disclaimer: Not a Mac hater myself. Long time Linux user who's seriously thinking of buying one of those nice Core 2 Duo MacBooks real soon...)
...with the former "Dude, you're gettin' a Dell!" guy.
10 MD
I would hire John Hodgman to do a series of commercials with his new Linux OS.
I don't know what kind of FUD I'd fill it up with yet.
Any ideas?
...ok, that's harsh, but the reality is that, as his publicist put it, "Justin is movie star." Hmm... seems like he got way more exposure doing the mac ads. Movie star my ass.
they cut off the end where it's revealed the Wii girl has a penis!! But seriously they could have found a hotter girl, the bitch has a man face.
Why do you hate Microsoft?
"Flying-rhenquest"
-Heh, that's the coolest name for a computer I've ever heard! :)
A horse can't be sick, you know, even if he wants to.
The message seems to be that you can get more out of your digital camera, your digital video camera etc with a Mac, while there is less hassle with unnecessary concepts like viruses and drivers.
This series of ads is not about preaching the the choir. It's about converting those who don't feel emotionally attached to their computer. Apple tries to convince potential buyers to get a 1000$ Mac rather than a 500$ PC. It's that simple.
And it's working. Apple market share has been rising quickly since the introduction of the Intel line.
(Drivers are needed for a computer to work, but the end user should not need to know about them, like they don't know about memory management implementation details)
Stop the brainwash
Does nobody think, especially after the original comment about turning into a pc, and with the lepard launch date just before vista that the pc could become a mac in the adverts and run osx and shaft vista by being much cheaper and arguably better in some ways.
Actually Mac computers are women and should be played by a sexy actress, here's why:
- they're sexy and have nice round Windows with lots of makeup.
- they bring all kinds of gadgets with them at all times.
- they actually use their 2 hemispheres.
- they can run hot
- they don't play FIFA soccer.
- they're expensive at the store
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... And with Intel, they're now just PCs in drag?
(Disclaimer: I'm typing this on a ladyboy MacBook Pro. Which for games purposes, is currently running Windows XP. Eww!)
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And it's his agent who's the douchebag, but then again, that's her job. Seeing as how she's an agent. It's like calling someone's lawyer and asshole. Yes, AND?
Check how many projects he's involved in:
http://imdb.com/name/nm0519043/
Maybe he just decided that he can sit around and masturbate with money-based lubricant rather than be on call for more Mac ads where he has to look like a jerk.
Please stop stalking me, bro.
John had a very funny bit on the daily show, where he was explaining the internet (after the "series of tubes" event). He started out with envelopes, representing packets, and said "for example, say I'm a computer..." Jon Stewart interrupted him and said "what kind of computer would you be?" After a bunch of evasive answers ("oh some kind of microcomputer"), with Jon unrelenting, he finally dropped his shoulders, sighed, and said "I'm a PC..." Hilarious.
:)
(I was kind of waiting for a reference to the commercials on the Daily Show, and they delivered
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
I was thinking the same thing - maybe h could show how cool the Mac is by smoking a joint.
no comment
..and Amiga wants it's stereotype back.
(All that's missing is some statement about getting "the best of both worlds"...)
Everyone thinks ME-tan is cute, even though she's completely inept and freezes and so on.
Not what I want in an OS, but she is funny to watch ^_^
Have you even heard about the switch to Intel? My Macs can boot Windows (Boot Camp) just fine - and I can play Windows games all I want.
I thought the ad campaign was brilliant. The depiction of the mac and the pc were perfect. I don't think that Justin Log (Mac) was ever "sleazy", I thought it fit perfectly with EVERY mac user I know. The mac users I know (over two dozen) are all the "hip" style types. They have the perfect trendy outfit and have their own style or twist to what ever they do. They are the "artsy" types.
The same can be said (IMO) for the depiction of the PC. As a PC user and an occassional mac user I couldn't agree more with the ads. THAT is what is SO funny about them. It's TRUE. Most of my work and play is on a PC. It has more problems more often then the mac AND I still continue to use it. Why? because there are more out there. That IS where most of the economy of software development is. I don't mean for Mac users to get bent about that comment but it's a simple fact. FAR more windows based PCs are in use for "work related" things then macs. It's that simple. ALL of my mac user friends are Graphic Designers, PR people, or in some Printing Publishing industry. Yes, All of them.
I think the campaign was brilliant, I will be sorry to see Justin leave as the Mac but my hope is that they will continue and find someone equally appropriate to depict the mac. They (PC and Mac) are very funny.
As for YouTube satirizations? How is that ever a bad thing?
Even Negative publicity is good PR...
"...ok, that's harsh, but the reality is that, as his publicist put it, "Justin is movie star." Hmm... seems like he got way more exposure doing the mac ads. Movie star my ass."
Yes, it is a bit harsh, and Long himself has stated that he did in fact receive far more recognition from the ads. This is part of the statement from Long's publicist: "Every ad you see Justin in is for that previous time period only...There's no long-term deal with him...Justin's a movie star, not a commercial guy."
However, the statement directly contradicts what Long himself said. He was quoted by Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times: "If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth. Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials." Seems to me that his publicist should consult with her client first before saying things that could prove embarrassing for him. Or maybe her statement was scripted by Karl Rove.
I can see why Justin Long is being replaced as a Mac... especially after his interview with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.
When you get paid for ads to promote a product, you promote it both on and off the screen.
I was shocked to hear him tell Jay, "I really do not know the difference between Mac and PC... They are all the same to me... I am just an actor...".
Having said that, I am a fan of Justin's movies, but he needs a lesson in product promotion.
Good god there's a lot of Mac-hate here for some reason. I'm not a Mac user. I don't own a Mac right now. I'm a Linux guy with a Thinkpad. But I can't for the life of me see what all of this is based on. People are routinely calling Apple users cult members, elitist, arrogant, immature, unprofessional... Here you are calling Apple a terrible company... Why? I don't get it.
;-)
They make reasonably nice computers. Their commercials are amusing and simply make claims that are functional, like a Mac will talk to your digital camera when a Windows PC won't without first installing a driver (often true not just of Macs but, for example, Linux as well).
It's only in response to Apple that we get these weird posts with religious overtones and claims like Apple continually making "efforts to irritate outsiders" to its "tiny church."
Very strange. Methinks the Slashdotters do protest too much. If you all feel so insecure about not having Macs, then for gods sake, just go and buy them. And then, if you really want to be cool, put Linux on them.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
It is easier, or more comforting, for Windows nerds who do not perceive anything significantly better about the Mac's UI to chalk up Mac users' strong preference to their being irrational cultists than it is to admit that they (the Mac users) perhaps have a more acute sense of design aesthetics.
If we concede that the Mac is a computer with a high-end user interface, what it is that makes its UI "high-end" is a matter of taste and perception. There do exist ways that you can scientifically measure and test the usability of software -- i.e. that by Fitts's Law you can prove that the Mac menu bar is more usable than the Windows-style menu bar within each window -- but that's not why Mac users are Mac users. No one goes out and subjects themselves to serious usability testing to determine which OS they should use. Real Mac users prefer the Mac because they just prefer it. You can explain the reasons why you prefer the Mac, but can you explain why you care about those reasons? You either feel it or you don't.
Hence the difficult situation faced by small-minded Windows users who do not get the appeal of the Mac; to admit that Mac users' strong preferences are reasonable would be to admit that they (the Windows-using squares) are unable to perceive something that real Mac users can. That to concede that Mac users are reasonable wouldn't just imply that Mac OS X is in at least certain ways much better than Windows, but that Mac users in certain ways have a more refined sense of taste than Windows users, which in turn cuts way too close to implying that in certain ways Mac users are smarter, which is where things turn ugly because those certain ways are, to Mac users, the ways that really matter, and any chance at reasonable discourse evaporates because both sides feel deeply insulted by the other.
http://daringfireball.net/2006/06/and_oranges
Well seeing as how they are trying to make you buy the whole package ("I don't have viruses", "Look at what I was able to do with my built-in software" etc.) that would kind of defeat the purpose of their ads.
A "news" story about commercials! Lame.
Don't worry about the mule, just load the wagon.
people like me found the PC dude much more amusing and likeable than the scruffy, elitist asshole Mac guy?
What are you guys like, exactly?
Why would you call Mac an asshole? He's done nothing but stand there and be likeable.
You can't take the sky from me...
I don't know anyone who actually likes those dumb ads, in fact it usually makes them hate Macs even more.
How come everyone you know hates macs?
And, philosophically speaking, if they hate macs, what mac ad wouldn't fuel their hatred?
"PCs are no fun? Don't Macs get like, no games? What a bunch elitist assholes! Who gives a shit about making picture albums!"
"Macs are safer? Of course they are, you don't get to do anything with it because there's none of the software I use!"
Don't they realise that they're making asses of themselves?
By bashing the product advertised with old, mindless clichés, they show that they clearly have an irrational hatred of this company, it's product, it's advertisements, that has nothing to do with these things themselves. Especially since the content of the ad explains that these clichés are not true. There's a specific ad about games, and another about macs running all the business software you need. What kind of person blindly ignores that and spews hatred of a company's hired actor?
"That Mac guy looks arrogant, not sure why.
Maybe it makes these PC using, mac hating people feel bad about themselves to see the mac user shown as a young, attractive guy, and the PC user as a older, fat and nerdy guy?
Since the point of the ad is to show that macs are better, and they clearly have an emotional interest in their indentity being defined by their computer of choice (hence the hate), I could see how he would seem arrogant to them.
You can't take the sky from me...
Yeah, I can see your point - I am just a recent convert to the Mac and I still have PCs all over my house. But then again I really prefer it if I could keep games away from my serious business/work system. The way Windows slows down after a while (especially with installing and removing games).. I would love that button IBM put on some systems - instant system "reset". Have BootCamp instantly overwrite the Windows-partition with a "clean" ISO (ready-to-use). The games that are on the Mac like World of Warcraft etc work beautifully - and much better than on my PCs. I am talking about stability and multi-tasking here.
I use such diverse systems as AMD64 X2, P4, Core Duo, G5 and G3s - so we are not talking Apples and oranges hardware/performance wise.
yea, they need some other pop-like figure to replace him.. it happens to all hipsters after a while.. i mean, Quiet Riot was once the shit, but obviously people think they're lame today minus a few exceptions.. gotta keep it fresh and hip.. i think i'll stick to being a Geek, and keep my PC..
*plays the Apogee theme song music*
There's something in the news/TV/content business called an "evergreen"... something that's just as newsworthy tomorrow as it was yesterday and is today. We've finally hit the slownewsday(tm pending) that brings those things out of the woodwork.
Yup, and so when you see Colbert running a Tek Jansen sequence, or showing some green screen contributions, or even having a whole show dedicated to a theme (what's happening to the young generation?!), it's because it's a slow news day -- or they can't pull a complete show together for some reason -- and they're just throwing in evergreen filler.
One simple rule for its versus it's
"I have a disease, and the only cure for it, is more cowbell..." then start playing Windows error sounds.
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
I look at my Mac and Justin Long isn't what comes to mind. He's a dork.
Maybe Catherine Zeta-Jones. Mature, sexy, fun. Looks really nice. Makes me want to fool around with her.
On the other hand, John Hodgman makes a terrific PC. Well, except my PCs aren't very funny. :(
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
"PCs are no fun? Don't Macs get like, no games? What a bunch elitist assholes! Who gives a shit about making picture albums!"
Uh, anyone over the age of 25? People who have money to buy a Mac because they don't spend it all on pizza and pot?
With the first link, the chain is forged.
More 'cushin for the 'pushin. You cant see 'em, but her tits are probably huge. That blonde chick needs a sammich pretty bad. Plus, because she's smarter, the BBW'd be able to get a job and you wouldn't have to pay for her clothes and shit.
Most of them end up with Linux being the one that gets bashed on.
That's appropriate - most Linux machines won't even boot without a considerable amount of bash(1)-ing.
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Isn't this the entire point of the Mac image? "Pay a little more, the quality is supposed to be higher"? Third Parties (All the ones who are probably furious at MS for ditching them?) cost far less than iPods for certain space ranges. For comparable space the Nano is overpriced.
Apple is currently doing well as the company that seriously "embraced & extended" a xNIX kernel with a unified front end, and unified marketing. Linux needs some unity to begin to be a serious force. There's an article that MS did well with "multiple product editions to meet different needs". I'd like to see a cohesive suite of perhaps 5 Linux versions marketed as a unit by companies with the money muscle to survive a bruise or two. (Sun?)
I am inching my way toward my first Linux system, for which I completely credit SlashDot. I don't have too many fancy peripherals, so I stand a good chance.
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I thought these commercials were amusing -- not very informative, but amusing. These ads had zero influence on my conversion from Windows to Mac...the ability to boot into Windows for those few applications (Quicken, Visual Studio, etc) did. I guess for the masses (aka - avg computer john and jane) these might work, but for the rest of us they're just fluff.
I think there out to be a commercial with those two yammering on and on about which one costs least, then slowly people start walking by in more and more numbers, all wearing ubuntu hats and tshirts... then the camera pans over to a penguin handing out free disks, giggling to itself.
Karma: Bad is the liberal way of saying this guy won't drink the kool aid here on slash dot. I wear my Karma with pride
In Raising Genius he plays son to Milton in a back story to Office Space and the Mac ads.
I found Justin Long's character to be a douchebag - which seems to perfectly personify the typical Mac user. Maybe they found an even bigger douchebag will be make him even more realistic.
For the non-Japanese-speakers, the bit he says when she first walks up is just "Hello, nice to meet you" or near enough, and the bit at the end that she says is "Hey ! Hey ! Who's that guy ? Isn't he kinda geeky/uncool ?", to which Hodgman responds "Bonjourno", proving her point.
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Justin Long is a "sleazy hipster"??? But ... but ... the guys who started Apple were "sleazy hipsters". And Apple products remain much longer on cool (and higher in quality as they always were).
Who else would complain but PC owners concerned about the fact that they're driving Fnords?
"You must try to forget all you have learned. You must begin to dream." -- Sherwood Anderson
John "PC" Hodgman switches to Mac.
I use both Macs and PCs. Recently I decided to discontinune using Windows and switch to Linux and Mac OS X. I dislike Microsoft so at first I liked the ads. It kind of goes with the terratory that in an ad, you potray your product to be better than the competition. But here is the way I see it. The PC guy is frumpy, kind of a nerd, has trouble expressing himself, and is an older looking fellow. The Mac guy looks younger, more physically fit, and has lots of snappy comebacks and one liners. I have trouble relating to either of them. I am 52 years old, so I have trouble relating to the younger Mac guy. It seems to me that the ad is targeted at younger people in their teens or twenties. What might have more impact would be two people of similar age and build. The PC guy can be uptight and worried about viruses, and focused on Microsoft products and details, The Mac guy can be focused on how the Mac can be used for lots of fun purposes as well as serious business uses. The Macs are expensive and have to be more than toys. Anyway, I feel its hard for me to identify with the Mac guy because he is so much younger and has an attitude. Some young people with atitudes make me uncomfortable. The smugness bothers me. It looks to me like the Mac guy is a "fanboy". He acts as if the Mac is better, "Because", and doesn't have to back up his position with facts. More substance would help the ad make more of an impact. I also think the ads miss the mark. A PC running Linux is a wonderful thing. A PC running Windows is a waste of the hardware. I think the ad might be more to the point if they renamed the PC guy, a Windows Guy. That would be more to the point. I think that is my most important criticism. It isn't so much that Macs are better than PCs. It is more like Windows is a lousy operating system and any other operating system running on PC hardware would be an improvement. Also, the new Intel based Powerbooks are PCs. Given that, the ad is off target. Also, what I liked about PowerPC based Macs was that they were RISC (reduced instruction set) machines, and as such tended to be more efficient (each clock executed one instruction). The PCs, build with Intel or compatible processors are CISC machines where an instruction would take as many clock cycles are were required, therefore less efficient. Considering that, a certain degree of pride in the PowerPC Macs was justified (IMHO). With the advent of Intel based Macs, the ad would have to have two avitars. A PC guy and a PC guy. That would reduce the power of the message. More correctly they would need a Windows PC guy and a Mac OS X PC guy.
I think Hodgman will end up playing both parts.
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Am I the only one who thinks Justin Long seems like a nice kid who plays a good straightman (which is what he's really supposed to be) to Hodgeman?
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According to Justin Long's website, this story is bogus.
Justin Long today on his web site refuted stories that he is no longer playing the Mac in Apple's popular "Get A Mac" ads where he appears as the "Mac". Read post by Justin Long at: http://www.justinlong.net/ubbthreads7/ubbthreads.p hp?ubb=showflat&Number=9155&PHPSESSID=a621fe48e73f 2b9090797af984959606
She's easy on the eyes and easy to use!
Nuf said.
The moved Justin Long's thread to the main 'Portal Page'. Here is the corrected URL: http://www.justinlong.net/