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Interview With "Switcher Girl" Ellen Feiss

Posted by kdawson on from the half-of-my-paper-was-gone dept.

Ed over in Accounting writes in with a Macinstein interview with Ellen Feiss, an Internet cult figure of a bygone era. Back in 2002, in the heyday of Apple's "Switcher" ads, the 14-year-old Feiss garnered a bit more than 15 minutes of fame. Her Switcher ad became an instant classic — partly because of the widespread belief that she was stoned while filming it, which she says was not the case. In the interview Feiss, who is now a college student with one movie behind her, talks about pseudo Internet fame, drugs, and acting. She says she's still using the same G4 she had when the ad ran. Nostalgia bonus: the ad is embedded at the end of the interview.

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  1. Apple ads by suv4x4 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's been 5 years or so. And still most of the Apple ads represent one or at most two objects (frequently human actors it seems), which are speaking about how much PC-s suck, and occasionally, ONLY occasionally, also mentioning how Mac software never has problems (lie) or how on Mac you can process photos and videos, and on the PC you can't (lie).

    And you suddenly know why most people just don't buy Macs. Mac marketing makes impression of being really really desparate.

    Maybe they should try some of their iPod concepts for advertising the Mac? This could work better. Show people having fun with a Mac, show Mac being used.

    Stop with the "PC sucks" nonsense.

  2. Re:Go PowerBook G4! by dreamer-of-rules · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A couple months ago, I upgraded from a 3.5 yr 1.0GHz TiBook to a 2.33GHz C2D MacBook Pro. The speed goes way beyond being able to play H.264 videos without stuttering.

    I gave my brothers a demo, with all of these running simultaneously..
    * iTunes playing music
    * VLC playing a video
    * DVD playing (a ripped folder)
    * iPhoto open with 5,000 photos
    * VPN/VNC to several work systems
    * Parallels running Windows XP
    * ...and that Windows XP running XCOM:UFO Defence
    * A second Parallels window installing Windows 98

    I hit Expose to show all windows-- there was no stutter.

    The CPU load was only at 75% :-D

    / love the MagSafe adapter more than I expected.. it just works

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