In many movies that contain computers, the computer shown is almost always a Macintosh computer, rather than a PC. Does Apple have a deal with Hollywood to make people think everyone has iMacs? For examples of movies with Macs, try watching any movie where someone uses email or a chat program. I think American Pie has it, although I haven’t seen it in a while. Bringing Down the House has a Mac in it, too.
I know Macs are used in Hollywood for CGI more than any other personal computer. Graphics people swear by them.
I know macs are widely used in movie production.
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Well, people in the movies always have the best apartments, the best cars, and the best weather (wait for it), so it make sense that (almost there) they would have (here it is!) the best computers.
I beleive there are some Macs in 24, and I think we all remember the most infamous Mac ever, used by Jeff Goldblum in Independence Day.
Yeah, the one that could interface with a completely alien system and upload a virus that could run on their processor and OS with no problem whatsoever. Yeah, right.
Yeah, I know. I mean, NOW it’d be no problem, since OSX is Unix-based, so they could get in with their knowledge of intergalatic Open Source, but back then, it was kind of unlikely.
It was a G5 beta, QED. 
Apple does indeed do a lot of product placement deals in movies. In fact, they even brag about it.
I don’t think PC hardware companies do a lot of product placement because unless there’s a good logo shot, it’s pretty difficult to differentiate a Dell from a Gateway.
'cause they’s purdy. Really, that’s all there is to it.
Probably the best explanation I could have come up with on my own had I actually thought about it, friedo. Thanks for the tip.
For the longest time it always bugged me (and I wondered why Apple didn’t figure it out long ago), that when mac laptops were used on TV the apple logo was upside down. (I mean I understand physically why it’s the wrong way, I just wondered why apple didn’t manufacture it the other way, so the logo is rightside up to the person staring at the back of your laptop.)
They’ve had them right-side up for a while now. (So they’re upside-down when you have the thing closed. You can’t win.)
I had always thought they should be that way, who cares what it looks like when it’s closed (and generally you’re the only person who sees it), they should be more concerned with how it looks when the notebook is open, when LOTS of people can see it (be it just a few people in an office, or millions of people watching primetime TV.)
This is another case of only noticing what you want to see and disregarding the rest.
I’ve actually seen very few Macs that I can recall- though I recall clearly the black-cased Acer PC that whats’ername used in Eraser, since I had one just like it.
I also recall all PCs in Hacker and the first Mission Impossible, The 'Net and Goldeneye.
Are you referring to this Hackers movie? I recall Macs being used in the school that the teenage hackers attended. Crash Override/Zero Cool hacked the Mac-powered sprinkler system to shower the classrooms and hallways in the middle of the school day.
Quite possible. It’s been many a moon since I saw it, I only recall a clear-cased laptop that they referred to as something like a “486”.
Yeah, but was it an Intel 486-DX or a 486 SX?
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Mission: Impossible mentioned something about the new Apple computer with the articfical intelligence chipset. The team geeks asks “Can I keep it?”
IIRC, “the Net” used Macs. That’s about the one thing I remember about that movie because it struck me as odd (being a pc person and all).