Another "Annoying Mac commercial" Thread

[Drekce]

I hate the misleading statements that Apple continually makes in their commercials. This new one has the "PC Cheerleaders" and they state that Mac is the #1 laptop on college campuses.

To someone who doesn't put two seconds thought into it it would seem like they are saying that there are more Macs than PCs on college campuses, but that is really not the case (not by far). For instance (completely made up numbers here):

Laptop:

Sony (PC): 10%
Dell (PC): 18%
HP (PC): 15%
IBM/Lenovo(PC): 10%
Other PC (PC): 27%
Apple (Mac): 20%

PC: 80%
Mac: 20%

While they may have the highest percentage of any of the brands of laptops, they are still way behind on the OS market share, which is not what their ad is implying. I'm not knocking the Apple products here, in fact my next laptop will almost certainly be a Macbook, I just can't stand their misleading ads.

 

[ultimatebob]

Where do I get these "Other" brand PC's? I want to buy one of them, since they seem to be the most popular brand!

Misreading statistics is fun!

 

[Crono]

From my experience, there are more Dell laptops used by college kids than Macs, and defnitely more PCs overall than Macs. Obviously, I'm not citing a national statistic, just saying. Is there a subtitle saying where they got the statistic from?
Are they including universities when they say "colleges"?

 

[ObiDon]

yeah, we saw that commercial last night. even my macbook/ipod owning gf thought it was stupid.

 

[AmigaMan]

admit it, you all are jealous! You wanna be like us mac users with our slim laptops and depressed, goth, dress, and starbucks triple latte coffee's in hand. we are just cooler than you

seriously, I hate the commercials now. They're getting to be like the stupid mastercard commercials. although I do like my MacBook Pro, I didn't buy it for the reasons Justin Long says.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Those commercials are always about Vista. While Vista may have its problems XP >> OSX.

 

[Lonyo]

Probably design ones that mandate students buy a Macbook of some sort

 

[alkemyst]

Easy way to really tell what's out there is server reports of what has hit your server. We get less than 3% apple traffic and we are a Top 10 national homebuilder.