HAHAHA! Nice.
It doesn’t make anymore sense to me. Wouldn’t a MacBook need as many cables (i.e., 0) as a non-Macintosh laptop? Or are they comparing a MacBook to a desktop PC?
They were commenting that Macbooks have magnetically attached power cables, so if you trip on it, the whole laptop won’t come crashing to the floor.
Is that a laptop or a desktop? because that one hits home for me. I tripped over a powercord and pretty much distroyed a laptop. Fortunatly it was an old, slow, piece of crap and the owner thanked me for finally giving him the ammunition he needed to talk his wife into the price of an upgrade…and it still kinda worked, so we were able to pull all the data off.
I’ve never seen Justin Long in anything else. Does he always look like he has a three-day growth of moustache? The half-assed lip hair annoys me.
LOL! That was hilarious! It reminds me of a Flash animation I saw a while ago that parodied the Macsturbation mindset. The Mac user was bragging to his roomate about how Macs never crash, and of course the bomb screen appears. Then he boasts that he has “every computer game ever made.” He opens the game folder, and there’s like two games in it.
Overall, those Apple commercials really grate on me. That guy is the perfect embodiment of why I tend to hate Mac users: the smug, condescending attitude; the tendency to exaggerate the problems that Windows users have, while forgetting that he has most of those same problems; the absolute inabilty to admit that Windows has gotten better over the years. (I mean, loading drivers? With XP, I’ve only ever needed to load drivers for one thing: my fingerprint reader. Cameras, flash drives, and even my mp3 player just plug in and are recognized right away.) Are those guys comparing their computers to Windows 3.1 or something?
No it doesn’t.
Galaxy Quest!!!
Was John Hodgman the original PC? I swear there was a different, older guy playing the part of PC in the very first ads.
Well put, my sentiments exactly.
As well as Dodgeball, Waiting, and Accepted, and small smaller roles as well.
Yuh huh.
-FrL-
All right, probably too many parodies already, but here’s one making fun of both Macs and PCs.
Personally, I kind of like the Get a Mac ads. They’re more silly than anything.
I don’t recall hearing “Microsoft” mentioned in any of the Mac ads.
A Macintosh is a personal computer, correct? That is what PC stands for.
Might be interesting to have the PC guy try to introduce the Mac guy to a non-mac “peripheral” only to discover that Mac can’t talk to it…
In Mac vs PC discussions, “PC” means “A computer that runs a Microsoft operating system.” So to mention PC’s is to mention Microsoft.
Anyway, they do mention Windows Vista specifically in one of them. (I think.)
-FrL-
There was a web video by one of the guys from Red v Blue on that very topic. Too funny and I can’t find it to share it. The premise is a guy talking about how cool the Mac is and how much better it is than a PC. The closing line was something like, “I am a gamer, well… I used to be.” 
ETA: found it!
I’m glad you asked this, because I was about to. The commercials never explain what a Mac is, and are therefore meaningless to me. Is a Mac not a computer of some kind? If it is, what’s so magical about it that it’s not subject to freezing, crashing, etc.?
You seriously don’t know what a Mac is?
Oh, you do know!
Well for starters, it’s not dependent on Microsoft Windows for its operating system.