"Get a Mac" adverts
Writing about web page http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
There's a great new series of adverts from Apple just out. They're called "Viruses", "Restarting", "Better", "iLife", "Network" and "WSJ", and they're simplicity itself; each advert starts out with two guys standing next to each other. "Hi, I'm a Mac" says one (the younger, more casually dressed guy). "And I'm a PC" says the other, more conservative figure. Can you guess how the dialog goes from there? Clever, understated humour.
(I want to subscribe to the Awesome Computer Review Weekly Journal.)
John Dale
02 May 2006 09:12
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[Skip to the latest comment]Matthew Jones
Sweet. My favourite is the virus one, where he falls over. So accurate.
02 May 2006, 10:02
Max Dymond
Brilliant! Thanks for those
02 May 2006, 13:23
Eleanor O'Donnell
Thats Warren Cheswick from Ed as the Mac! Excellent.
02 May 2006, 14:20
Nick Howes
I was trying to think what that kid was from! Also "Jeepers Creepers" and "Dodgeball", the latter being a quality movie.
02 May 2006, 15:17
Eleanor O'Donnell
Yep. I win at daytime TV. :)
03 May 2006, 00:20
My vote goes with iLife. The way 'PC' does a deadpan face while listing the "cool" apps bundled with him is genius, I only wish there were more of them.
03 May 2006, 07:15
sd
Actually that is Justin Long who plays "Mac." They are hilarious and so true. Go Apple!!!
11 May 2006, 22:23
Amiga Inc
spoof of these very adverts
link – Lost Heads
link – Amiga Truck
link – Boing Ball
18 May 2006, 16:38
Nick
Mac: "Hello, I'm a mac,"
PC: "And i'm a PC. You know, we use a lot of the same programs,"
MAc: "Yea, like Microsoft Office"
PC: "But we retain a lot of what makes us, us."
Mac: "You should see what this guy does with a spreadsheet,"
PC: "And games."
Mac: "What?"
PC: "You know, how I can play a whole shitload of really great games."
Mac: "Hey! I've got loads of games! Er… Myst!"
PC: "Hey, hey, don't get upset, Myst is great! Really, really special."
Mac: "I speak all sorts of languages and you know, everything just kinda works with a mac."
Pc: "Yea me to. Really. Exactly the same. I can use all the same fancy japanese cameras as you."
Mac: "But you know I'm better at 'life stuff' though don't you. Pictures, movies, music. Stuff like that."
Pc: "You are so gay right now."
Mac: "Becuase making a website is easy for me, but for you…"
Pc: "Dude, I run dreamweaver and flash as well. You're just being a dick."
Mac: "Well, I'm shot hot with photoshop and I've got sharp lines, shiney user interface and superfast processors"
Pc: "Yea… so um.. What processor you running these days?"
Mac: "Well, um…. intel…."
Pc: "Oh yea. Oh, right. But hey at least you're cheaper… Oh, wait. You're not."
05 Jun 2006, 17:14
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