New Get a Mac ad actually shows a better PC than the Mac

[theflyingpig]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
People with PC's get viruses? and malware?

Since when was a Mac not a PC? A PC = Personal Computer. The Mac is the exactly same thing as any Windows machine. In turn, they are talking about their hardware as well. Microsoft should jump on this and point it out in a commerical.

You clearly have no clue. Macs are much more than just "PC=Personal Computer"s. They represent a personality, lifestyle, and experience that PC users simply cannot comprehend. Fortunately, through ads such as these, Apple is attempting to help this pathetic demographic become something better. Those who are able to understand the fundamental message of the ad will switch, and be welcomed to the Mac community. The others, will continue to wallow in their own filth.

 

[Fayd]

i have a full admin account, nod32 AV (though it's never picked up anything but false positives), and never a virus. i use firefox, with adblock and noscript, and i havent picked up malware since i stopped using IE.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: theflyingpig

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
People with PC's get viruses? and malware?

Since when was a Mac not a PC? A PC = Personal Computer. The Mac is the exactly same thing as any Windows machine. In turn, they are talking about their hardware as well. Microsoft should jump on this and point it out in a commerical.

You clearly have no clue. Macs are much more than just "PC=Personal Computer"s. They represent a personality, lifestyle, and experience that PC users simply cannot comprehend. Fortunately, through ads such as these, Apple is attempting to help this pathetic demographic become something better. Those who are able to understand the fundamental message of the ad will switch, and be welcomed to the Mac community. The others, will continue to wallow in their own filth.

i guess objective analysis just doesnt work in marketing.

 

[0roo0roo]

i like this one better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...eature=player_embedded

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i like this one better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...eature=player_embedded

Don't forget the exploding screen app.

 

[Nik]

Dumb people believe dumb ads.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Originally posted by: PeteRoy
Yes, that woman doesnt strike the viewer as if she knows anything about computers, to people watching the ad she looks like a computer illiterate who doesnt know what she's talking about.

Sounds like MAC knows their users well.

 

[mugs]

Seemed to me like the ad was saying that you can get everything she was asking for (big screen, fast processor) on a Mac, and in addition you get a better user experience (in Apple's opinion). Obviously a direct response to MS's recent ads; this ad leaves out the important (to some) detail that you will pay more for that user experience.

Patrick Warburton is the man. I love his current sitcom, Rules of Engagement.

 

[Kelvrick]

Isn't a mac a pc (personal computer) as well? It says right in the ad all pc's will have the problem, including macs. She just chooses macs anyway. I don't hate macs, I just hate the image the typical user (like that girl) project.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Isn't a mac a pc (personal computer) as well? It says right in the ad all pc's will have the problem, including macs. She just chooses macs anyway. I don't hate macs, I just hate the image the typical user (like that girl) project.

Since the original IBM PC, PC has been used most frequently to refer to IBM, IBM-compatible, and now Windows PCs.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Isn't a mac a pc (personal computer) as well? It says right in the ad all pc's will have the problem, including macs. She just chooses macs anyway. I don't hate macs, I just hate the image the typical user (like that girl) project.

Since the original IBM PC, PC has been used most frequently to refer to IBM, IBM-compatible, and now Windows PCs.

but what about power PC's?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Isn't a mac a pc (personal computer) as well? It says right in the ad all pc's will have the problem, including macs. She just chooses macs anyway. I don't hate macs, I just hate the image the typical user (like that girl) project.

Since the original IBM PC, PC has been used most frequently to refer to IBM, IBM-compatible, and now Windows PCs.

but what about power PC's?

What about it? It's a processor. You could use it to run Mac OS, linux, Windows, various other OSes, and it has been used in a bunch of game consoles. Doesn't change the fact that the meaning of Apple's usage of "PC" in their ads is obvious, and Kelvrick is being obtuse.

 

[oogabooga]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Isn't a mac a pc (personal computer) as well? It says right in the ad all pc's will have the problem, including macs. She just chooses macs anyway. I don't hate macs, I just hate the image the typical user (like that girl) project.

Since the original IBM PC, PC has been used most frequently to refer to IBM, IBM-compatible, and now Windows PCs.

but what about power PC's?

What about it? It's a processor. You could use it to run Mac OS, linux, Windows, various other OSes, and it has been used in a bunch of game consoles. Doesn't change the fact that the meaning of Apple's usage of "PC" in their ads is obvious, and Kelvrick is being obtuse.

If you can't make points on the internet by being obtuse - what good is the internet for? It's all most of us seem to do with it

If a mac is a pc then Microsoft's add campaign has been kinda stupid as well

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: oogabooga

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Isn't a mac a pc (personal computer) as well? It says right in the ad all pc's will have the problem, including macs. She just chooses macs anyway. I don't hate macs, I just hate the image the typical user (like that girl) project.

Since the original IBM PC, PC has been used most frequently to refer to IBM, IBM-compatible, and now Windows PCs.

but what about power PC's?

What about it? It's a processor. You could use it to run Mac OS, linux, Windows, various other OSes, and it has been used in a bunch of game consoles. Doesn't change the fact that the meaning of Apple's usage of "PC" in their ads is obvious, and Kelvrick is being obtuse.

If you can't make points on the internet by being obtuse - what good is the internet for? It's all most of us seem to do with it

If a mac is a pc then Microsoft's add campaign has been kinda stupid as well

They're all kinda stupid, but Microsoft's laptop ad had a hot latina girl.

EDIT: I remember when the IBM's came out, they were called that. IBM's and ibm compatibles. Just because they were all considered PC's doesn't mean apple's are somehow special now, especially since they use pentiums now as well. But I guess PC means windows? Seems to me those who are using pc's as a common term for windows based machines are the ones being obtuse.

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: peritusONE

Originally posted by: magomago
Damn she quickly changed her opinion....

That's a woman for you.

:laugh:

*remembers there are active female posters ATOT, runs and hides*

 

[zCypher]

There are a lot of techie geeks out there, which is their own thing, but I haven't met one yet that is condescending towards Mac users, or snobby or thinking their computer is way better than a Mac etc..

I HAVE however met a lot of "Mac" people that are obsessed with their Mac just "because" and are obsessed with "how much better than PCs" their Macs are.... not saying that's wholly representative of Mac users everywhere but from my own personal experience, that's what I've seen!

Macs are useless to me. If you want a stable OS with less available software why wouldn't you save your money and get Linux? Now that Macs use the same hardware as the competition, I don't see why anyone would pay so much more just to have OS X when you can have XP, Vista, Windows 7, any one of the hundreds or more FREE variations of Linux - really good ones out now like Ubuntu (can't say it's not user friendly) etc... Just don't understand it, for the price.

That's not to say Macs aren't good at certain things... but... all in all, I don't see how they are worth it. Even if you're part of some "community" to make yourself feel special. Not worth it.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: Alone
It's implying that while PC might have all this fancy shit, it still runs Windows which is terribly unreliable and vulnerable to intrusion.

Not like mac is that secure, a couple years ago they tested XP vs linux vs mac and mac security failed in minutes :laugh:
Windows took much longer, then linux lasted the longest (of course). I think it was a PC magazine article.

Just, no one cares about mac to even bother writing malicious code for them. It wouldn't do near as much damage, so what's the point?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: nutxo

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: Baked
Thousands of viruses and tons of problems? What the fuck is that ginger talking about? I never have those problems with my own computers.

Neither do I, with limited user accounts, common sense and security:thumbsup:

Apple is so virus free that the next version of OS X might include anti-malware software!

I think its got a lot more to do with the reasoning behind writing malicious programs.

Why fish with a bobber and a worm when you can fish with a net.

why fish with a net when you can fish with dynamite

 

[sdifox]

Basically all MS needs to do is put out a short text only add

Question: Why does the Mac get less virus attacks?

display that for 20 seconds and the last 10 show this

Answer: Because hackers don't consider it worth attacking.

 

[onlyCOpunk]

It's amusing how up in arms everyone gets over a silly advertisement...

It's an advertisement, it's meant to sell a product. There are much more stupid ads on television then this.

 

[DrawninwarD]

Originally posted by: videogames101
Full admin account here, no security software, and haven't had a virus in years.


Common sense.

/thread

Same.

I hate Apple's ads.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: onlyCOpunk
It's amusing how up in arms everyone gets over a silly advertisement...

It's an advertisement, it's meant to sell a product. There are much more stupid ads on television then this.

And we will discuss every single one of them.
In detail.
At length.
Until lock or ban.

 

[brxndxn]

If you're PC illiterate enough to have a single virus, you probby have a ton of them. Your only privacy is that the people stealing all of your information have too much information of other stupid people - so you have safety in numbers.

It's not so fucking hard to run antivirus, keep it up to date.. Run a full system check once a month.. just for the hell of it. Then, run Ad-aware or Spybot - or BOTH.. ONCE A WEEK.

AND.. Never trust anything on the Internet! If a page randomly pops up and says you have viruses, don't trust it. BTW, run something other than Internet Exploder.

And, if you absolutely gotta browse the kind of porn that only criminals want to see, then put your browser in privacy mode!

There.. running a PC in a nutshell.. even a caveman can do it.

If you do all that and notice that one day a new icon pops up or your computer does things it didn't do before, then talk to your local computer geek and ask him to look at it!

That's it! Problem free computing...

 

[will889]

Originally posted by: peritusONE

Originally posted by: magomago
Damn she quickly changed her opinion....

That's a woman for you.

lmao

 

[RESmonkey]

Originally posted by: Baked
Thousands of viruses and tons of problems? What the fuck is that ginger talking about? I never have those problems with my own computers.

LMAO