Hmmm... those Mac commercials are getting pretty damn convincing.

[Simetra]

Check out this one.

Makes me wanna go out and buy an IMac.

[sub]No… not really.[/sub]

[Simetra]

Oh yeah. And Counterpoint.

[Zebra]

It always seems really odd to me that the MAC ads mostly concentrate on ‘Lifestyle’ ads. Ads that say ‘cool people use Macs! Don’t you want to be cool?’ My personal favorites were the ‘Think Different’ ads that featured people who never used any kind of computer.

At least some of the newer ads are concentrating on performance.

[CRorex]

My favorite Mac ad is for the IT guy who can’t figure out how to use a PC

[Ruffian]

I hate those commercials. Du-u-u-U-M-B.

I love the mock/counterpoint video: “I am a fucktard.” LOL!

[Wonko_The_Sane]

I read on [H]ard OCP that all of the strags in those apple ads were paid. Makes one wonder. I also enjoy the ad with the IT manager that can’t use a PC. True to life sometimes.

[beagledave]

*Originally posted by Wonko The Sane *
**I read on [H]ard OCP that all of the strags in those apple ads were paid. Makes one wonder. I also enjoy the ad with the IT manager that can’t use a PC. True to life sometimes. **

Not sure if facts matter in this kind of thread… :rolleyes:
but FWIW they have to be paid.

From the macintouch web site… (June 26)

Several readers followed up on yesterday’s link to a WinInfo article calling Steve Jobs “less than honest” for paying the “switchers” in Apple’s new marketing campaign:

[Bill Kolang] “Anyone appearing in a commercial has to be paid, because it’s run by unions, including SAG. They can’t help it - so the Wininfo article isn’t totally accurate, since it alludes that there was arm-twisting going on, which there wasn’t.
  Also, I know one of the women who is on the spots - she really did swtich! She’s a local DJ… Anyhow, the networks require the people in the commercial to sign documents saying their testimonials are true, and I can tell you that in her case, they are.”
[MacInTouch Reader] “The WinInfo article about ‘switchers’ blurs the truth. People in the ads have to be paid by law because of the SAG (screen actors’ guild) requirements to do so. None were in SAG. Each had to sign a contract to join SAG before being allowed to be in the commercial. That’s the way it works, period. Re: the recruitment of the actors: Apple receives thousands of letters regarding just about everything. Based on customer feedback and on the collaboration between Steve Jobs and the creatives at Apple’s ad agency, TBWA/CHIAT/DAY, the switcher’s campaign was born. Then, the agency, with Apple’s approval, found actual, real, switchers to shoot. They are all true stories and the participants had to sign rigorous testimonial affidavits and other documents to prove the point. It is easy to say these people were ‘solicited.’ It happened more like this: They asked around to find switchers and asked them, ‘Do you want to speak about your experience in a commercial?’ Would you call this solicitation? Yes, but not in the way the WinInfo article colors it.”

And FWIW, the IT manager did NOT say that he couldn’t run a PC.

See here…

[Belrix]

The moment somebody says their computer doesn’t crash is the moment I stop listening to them.

I’ve used Unix for 12 years, and the Unix underpinnings of OSX don’t impress me as crash-free - Unix crashes - it’s just harder.

How come all the Mac Magazines are printing articles on “Don’t Panic, it’s called a command-line. Here’s how to use it.”

I’m actually interested in the OS - I’m not much interested in buying overpriced, underpowered hardware that’s designed more for asthetics than performance.

I wonder if they’ll every do an Intel port of OS-X?

[Thaddeus]

I crashed OSX the second day I played with it. Evidently other operations are not to be tolerated when the computer is taking its turn in chess. It wouldn’t have been a big deal to me except that the Mac took like 5 minutes to reboot.

[turner]

“Also, I know one of the women who is on the spots - she really did swtich! She’s a local DJ… Anyhow, the networks require the people in the commercial to sign documents saying their testimonials are true, and I can tell you that in her case, they are.”

Have you seen the commercial with this retard? She talks for a living but she can’t string two words together without a pregnant pause or an “uh”.

These commercials seem to say, “Mac–for those who don’t know what the hell they’re doing”