"Im a pc" ad's actually REALLY annoying!!!

[marold280]

right. i might be the only one here. but after having to listen to the bloody "im a pc" over and over again, im actually sick of them! i cant stand listening to them ALL say "im a pc" ! anyone else see this? im anti-microsoft anyway, but those adverts are REALLY annoying!

[andreab35]

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I have to agree.
It's not very fun hearing "Im a PC" five thousand times.
We get the point! Lol

[dukebound85]

like the "im a mac" ads are loads better:rolleyes:

[MatLane]

I'm a PC and i am pretty scared is the best one


''''aka my avg has failed and i am about to loose all my important data, o no!''''




Hahaha

[bartelby]

I always expect this guy to pop up:
http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/jpgs/ishejewi.jpg
"I'm a PC and so's my wife"

[chagla]

Hi, I'm a mac. I can't stand on my own merits, so I lie, and exgagerate things about PC to make me feel good. I just look cool but I don't really have any use for me in the real world.

[djellison]

Not as annoying as, and frankly, more entertaining than the Mac adverts.

Doug

[MisterMe]

right. i might be the only one here. but after having to listen to the bloody "im a pc" over and over again, im actually sick of them! ...Boo-hoo! This campaign sells a lot of Macs. It has so successful that Microsoft has seen fit to try to respond with its own rip-off campaign.

[Lurchdubious]

Not as annoying as, and frankly, more entertaining than the Mac adverts.

Doug

Are you serious? I can't freaking stand the new pc ads. I haven't seen a single "I'm a Mac" ad that hasn't at least made me smile. (although I can't stand the iPhone ads that get played every 20 minutes).

[kkat69]

like the "im a mac" ads are loads better:rolleyes:

At least they're quick, to the point, and humorous.


Hi, I'm a mac. I can't stand on my own merits, so I lie, and exgagerate things about PC to make me feel good. I just look cool but I don't really have any use for me in the real world.

Oh we wont even get into this.

Boo-hoo! This campaign sells a lot of Macs. It has so successful that Microsoft has seen fit to try to respond with its own rip-off campaign.

Pretty sure (I could be wrong) the OP is talking about the MS ones not the Apple ones.

[FF_productions]

I think it's annoying because it seems pointless for MS to defend themselves. You control 95% of the market, yet you need to defend yourselves? It's like a "we must get the last laugh" kind of thing. Apple's ads must be working?

I don't care for either, neither make me want to buy a Mac or a PC, it's just them throwing jabs at each other, funny for a second, then I just don't care...kinda like every commercial I see.

[mysterytramp]

Hi, I'm a mac. I can't stand on my own merits, so I lie, and exgagerate things about PC to make me feel good. I just look cool but I don't really have any use for me in the real world.

The saddest thing about the "I'm a PC" ads is that they follow oh-so-closely to this "I'm a Mac" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH5auChwfmA&feature=related) ad from two years ago. So sad, so very sad.

mt

[GSMiller]

The very first "I'm a PC" ad was the best, but the ones with "real" people aren't that good.

[djellison]

Are you serious?

Very.

The PC ads show some nice diversity - whereas the Mac ads show smug, outdated stereotypes. The Mac adverts make me embarassed to be a Mac user. The PC adverts make me think "Yup - I'm one of them"

Doug

[-::ubermann::-]

I can't stand the apple's ads, based on stereotypes and ignorance
when I see them I'm kinda ashamed to be a mac user

[FrankieTDouglas]

I only see the Microsoft ads when Macrumors posts them. Sooo... they really haven't had much of a chance to get under my skin. :)

[MisterMe]

... The PC adverts make me think "Yup - I'm one of them"

DougYou do understand that the characters in the Mac ads are machines, don't you?

[millar876]

he thing that cracks me up about the "I'm a PC" adverts, is right at the end, when the slogan comes up, "Microsoft windows, A Life Without Walls" if we don't have Walls we don't need windows. Another case of not thinking things through properly, by the M$ marketing team. Just like "see how windows vista makes it easier and more entertaining to use your PC" I've never laughed so hard as after I installed vista and as for ease of use, I just turn it off.

[ChrisA]

right. i might be the only one here. but after having to listen to the bloody "im a pc" over and over again, im actually sick of them! i cant stand listening to them ALL say "im a pc" ! anyone else see this? im anti-microsoft anyway, but those adverts are REALLY annoying!

I've never seen one of these adds, except now and then when someone links to one of the ads from this site. If you are seeing TV commercials over and over maybe it's time to turn off the TV.

[wheelhot]

Is the ads still running? :eek:

I wonder what's phase 4 from Microsoft ads?

[gilkisson]

What I find more offensive than annoying are the "Mojave Project" ads, where they allegedly demo a "new" operating system called Mojave to a bunch of unsuspecting people, who then rave about how wonderful and fast and fun it was. They then reveal Mojave is really Vista. "Ha ha, we tricked you, you like Vista, you like Vista, nyaa nyaa nyaa."

Dear lord. Microsoft, has it become so bad you are reduced to lying to the world to hawk your wares?

Microsoft's new slogan should be, "Come, let us fool you too". Jeez.

[SnowLeopard2008]

^ Yup. I personally love to see the "new" "innovations" that Windows 7 has. Not to mention the tacky Aero interface. Microsoft has to trick every customer to buying it. In the Mojave project, they probably bought really expensive computers with cutting edge technology in order to make Vista seem useable. If I took a 1K computer, it still would have trouble loading Vista. Not to mention they probably used the best computer hardware out there + the Ultimate version of Vista. This is reminiscent of the days when PC was cheaper and Mac was more expensive. Today is quite the opposite.

[Zwhaler]

I thought they were somewhat clever. Not very innovative, given that they are merely a response to the Get a Mac ads.

[The Flashing Fi]

^ Yup. I personally love to see the "new" "innovations" that Windows 7 has. Not to mention the tacky Aero interface. Microsoft has to trick every customer to buying it. In the Mojave project, they probably bought really expensive computers with cutting edge technology in order to make Vista seem useable. If I took a 1K computer, it still would have trouble loading Vista. Not to mention they probably used the best computer hardware out there + the Ultimate version of Vista. This is reminiscent of the days when PC was cheaper and Mac was more expensive. Today is quite the opposite.

They actually used a normal HP laptop with 2 gigs of RAM, I think a 2.0 or 2.2 Ghz Core 2 Duo processor, and I don't know the screen size. I think the specifications were kinda similar to the Macbook Pro (not the new ones). A mid-range video card, a decent CPU, and 2 gigs of RAM. It's really nothing special.

The laptop at the time might have retailed for about 1000-1200 USD, which is pretty reasonable for a laptop and falls into the range of what most people are willing to spend on laptops. But I'm taking a stab in the dark at the GPU of the laptop. I know it had a dedicated one and that it wasn't anything more powerful than a mid range GPU. They didn't use the laptop for gaming, so even something like a 8400M GS would handle Aero with the same performance.

But you are right about the version of Vista being used, it was Ultimate. For the average user, there's no difference between Ultimate and Premium, asides dreamscene and 2 new games (at the time, just one, which was Texas Hold'em).

And I found the laptop used. It was a 1 year old HP dv2000.

Here's about it:
http://redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=10161

And another article in non-English said the specs of the HP was a Core 2 Duo 2.2 Ghz CPU, and 2 gigs of RAM (as I previously said) running 32-bit Vista Ultimate.

I looked up the specs for the HP dv2000, and it said the screen size was 14.1" and that for the model with Intel CPUs, it used a Nvidia 7200 (a discrete GPU, but very low end), although the model they used was probably updated and used a low end 8 series GPU (like a 8400M GS).
What I find more offensive than annoying are the "Mojave Project" ads, where they allegedly demo a "new" operating system called Mojave to a bunch of unsuspecting people, who then rave about how wonderful and fast and fun it was. They then reveal Mojave is really Vista. "Ha ha, we tricked you, you like Vista, you like Vista, nyaa nyaa nyaa."

Dear lord. Microsoft, has it become so bad you are reduced to lying to the world to hawk your wares?

Microsoft's new slogan should be, "Come, let us fool you too". Jeez.

I guess you completely missed the point. Many people had very bad first impressions of Windows Vista when it was first released, due to some program compatibility issues, UAC, and the biggest issue, driver problems. People who tried Vista then started to tell all their friends and people on blogs that Vista was horrible. There was a lot of bad press about Vista due to its initial problems.

So MS grabbed some people who had a bad impression of Vista and gave them a demo of it, and the didn't know it was Vista. There's nothing unethical about it. They're not lying in their commercial. They were just trying to make a point that Vista isn't as bad as you've heard, and that you should at least try it before passing judgment.

And the whole reason they misled the people was to get a true opinion of Vista. It's like this. If you go into something thinking it's going to be bad, then that biased opinion is going to impact your opinion. So, the people went into the experiment not knowing what to expect, instead of having a bias into what to expect.

And if you have a huge ethical dilemma over MS's "practice" in executing the "trickery," then I hope you hate Apple over them blatantly misleading the viewers of the commercial. It seems to me that you're trying to find any reason to bash MS, even if it requires some messed up logic.

[Demosthenes X]

^ Yup. I personally love to see the "new" "innovations" that Windows 7 has. Not to mention the tacky Aero interface. Microsoft has to trick every customer to buying it. In the Mojave project, they probably bought really expensive computers with cutting edge technology in order to make Vista seem useable. If I took a 1K computer, it still would have trouble loading Vista. Not to mention they probably used the best computer hardware out there + the Ultimate version of Vista. This is reminiscent of the days when PC was cheaper and Mac was more expensive. Today is quite the opposite.

Give me a break. My father's $700 Toshiba laptop runs Vista without a hiccup. It's not a speed-demon by any stretch, but it is certainly not "unusable".

What I find more offensive than annoying are the "Mojave Project" ads, where they allegedly demo a "new" operating system called Mojave to a bunch of unsuspecting people, who then rave about how wonderful and fast and fun it was. They then reveal Mojave is really Vista. "Ha ha, we tricked you, you like Vista, you like Vista, nyaa nyaa nyaa."

Dear lord. Microsoft, has it become so bad you are reduced to lying to the world to hawk your wares?

Microsoft's new slogan should be, "Come, let us fool you too". Jeez.

:confused: How in the world is that offensive? That test demonstrated that lots of the bad public perception about Vista - much of it generated by Apple's stupid "I'm a Mac" ads - is simply wrong.

I've used Vista, and while I prefer OSX for security and stability reasons, there's nothing at all wrong with Vista from a user-interface perspective. In fact, it's quite a pleasant operating system to use.

Microsoft is not "lying" to the world when they conduct a blind test. If anything, you should be "offended" by Apple for perpetuating the myth that Vista is a pile of crap, because it simply isn't.

[gilkisson]

I guess you completely missed the point. Many people had very bad first impressions of Windows Vista when it was first released, due to some program compatibility issues, UAC, and the biggest issue, driver problems. People who tried Vista then started to tell all their friends and people on blogs that Vista was horrible. There was a lot of bad press about Vista due to its initial problems.

So MS grabbed some people who had a bad impression of Vista and gave them a demo of it, and the didn't know it was Vista. There's nothing unethical about it. They're not lying in their commercial. They were just trying to make a point that Vista isn't as bad as you've heard, and that you should at least try it before passing judgment.

And the whole reason they misled the people was to get a true opinion of Vista. It's like this. If you go into something thinking it's going to be bad, then that biased opinion is going to impact your opinion. So, the people went into the experiment not knowing what to expect, instead of having a bias into what to expect.

And if you have a huge ethical dilemma over MS's "practice" in executing the "trickery," then I hope you hate Apple over them blatantly misleading the viewers of the commercial. It seems to me that you're trying to find any reason to bash MS, even if it requires some messed up logic.

Oh, I understood the point, all right. It is called "damage control", plain and simple. For whatever reasons (or rationalizations) you can come up with, Vista is a problem child.

I have 300+ desktop PCs to support. Currently, they all run XP Pro. And they will stay that way for the foreseeable future, too. I installed a few copies, ran evals in several different departments and business areas. I had enough problems getting Vista on our domain, with our software load, with our databases and networks, that I canned the project. There is no business need, no driving technology, no benefit to be gained, from installing Vista. The cost of the software, combined with the added hardware costs, made the idea ridiculous and the decision to skip Vista very easy.

"I want you to try my product, but I'm not going to tell you the name until later" isn't a method by which I will buy software. When my neighbors tried that approach with Amway, I told them to take a hike as well. Same thing.

So they cobbled up a version of Vista that didn't crash or bog the system. In other words, they have made a version of Vista that does what XP does already. Then what would I get for the additional $300?

You want me to purchase your software, be upfront with me. Tell me what it is, what it does, and how it will benefit the bottom line. If you cannot, well, there's the door.

[gilkisson]

How in the world is that offensive? That test demonstrated that lots of the bad public perception about Vista - much of it generated by Apple's stupid "I'm a Mac" ads - is simply wrong.

Sorry, no. Vista has problems. I tested it, I tried it. I failed it. The failure of Vista to be of any use to me, in my business, was not the fault of Apple. It was the fault of Microsoft.


I've used Vista, and while I prefer OSX for security and stability reasons, there's nothing at all wrong with Vista from a user-interface perspective. In fact, it's quite a pleasant operating system to use.

Microsoft is not "lying" to the world when they conduct a blind test. If anything, you should be "offended" by Apple for perpetuating the myth that Vista is a pile of crap, because it simply isn't.

It isn't Apple "perpetuating a myth". It is Vista failing to prove itself.

It's not just my company. Simple research (http://www.google.com/search?q=companies+reject+vista&btnG=Search) shows business across the world have failed Vista and will not install it.

[Cyberius]

It's not just my company. Simple research (http://www.google.com/search?q=companies+reject+vista&btnG=Search) shows business across the world have failed Vista and will not install it.

If you could go back in time to mid 2003 you would find many similar articles about Windows XP. Meanwhile, Vista is growing by about .5 - 1% marketshare every month.

[BigHungry04]

If you could go back in time to mid 2003 you would find many similar articles about Windows XP. Meanwhile, Vista is growing by about .5 - 1% marketshare every month.

No one remembers XP not working when it first came out. I remember it well. It wouldn't work with my printer, or my game pad. I just stuck with XP and after a few months HP came out with drivers for my printer, and Logitech came out with drivers for my game pad. When I installed Vista on my laptop in 2007, it wouldn't work with my printer, but that was because HP once again didn't have drivers for my printer for Vista. I like Vista, I have no problems with it. Everyone expects it to work just as well as XP, well it does. It works as well as XP did when it first came out. Give it a few years and it will be just as stable.

[The Flashing Fi]

Sorry, no. Vista has problems. I tested it, I tried it. I failed it. The failure of Vista to be of any use to me, in my business, was not the fault of Apple. It was the fault of Microsoft.



It isn't Apple "perpetuating a myth". It is Vista failing to prove itself.

It's not just my company. Simple research (http://www.google.com/search?q=companies+reject+vista&btnG=Search) shows business across the world have failed Vista and will not install it.

I'm not going to tell you that you're wrong in your experience with Vista. I have no idea what you tried it with, what you installed it on, ect. I put Vista RC1 on my desktop and it was great. I put Vista RTV February 2 2007 and there were a lot of driver bugs with Nvidia. That's been fixed now and SP1 improved Vista a lot.

Many of Vista's problems are grossly exaggerated. Call it MS's "problem child," but businesses are really not a way to judge the success of Windows Vista. Businesses have generally been very slow to adopt the latest version of Windows. They wait until they absolutely have no choice. Many businesses 2-3 years after XP was released were still running Windows 2000, where they new all their software would work and where they knew all their computers could run it without problems.

Because of this, I suspect that many businesses will likely switch to Windows 7, based right off of Windows Vista. Windows XP computers won't be available then, and when businesses need to switch, they won't have a choice (and they won't have drivers either).

[gilkisson]

If you could go back in time to mid 2003 you would find many similar articles about Windows XP. Meanwhile, Vista is growing by about .5 - 1% marketshare every month.

Agreed. Because MS has made it very difficult (not impossible) to get XP, at least at retail. The marketshare growth you mention is coming from XP.

Again, I ask it: What driving reason is there, business or technology, to convert to Vista? What function can be done only on Vista, which cannot be done by staying on XP?

I submit there is but one: XP has already been paid for, whereas MS has not collected from everyone for Vista yet. Only reason I can see.

[gilkisson]

I'm not going to tell you that you're wrong in your experience with Vista. I have no idea what you tried it with, what you installed it on, ect. I put Vista RC1 on my desktop and it was great. I put Vista RTV February 2 2007 and there were a lot of driver bugs with Nvidia. That's been fixed now and SP1 improved Vista a lot.

Many of Vista's problems are grossly exaggerated. Call it MS's "problem child," but businesses are really not a way to judge the success of Windows Vista. Businesses have generally been very slow to adopt the latest version of Windows. They wait until they absolutely have no choice. Many businesses 2-3 years after XP was released were still running Windows 2000, where they new all their software would work and where they knew all their computers could run it without problems.

Because of this, I suspect that many businesses will likely switch to Windows 7, based right off of Windows Vista. Windows XP computers won't be available then, and when businesses need to switch, they won't have a choice (and they won't have drivers either).

Alas, you are probably correct. I do know that I won't support a company-wide switch to Vista without a good reason. "Good reason" being defined as that which helps the company improve the bottom line. I see no reason to convert, either a gain in technology or improved performance to the business.

The myriad of problems I had have probably been fixed, I admit. But I'm not in the mood, nor do I have the budget, to spend thousands just to end up with no improved capabilities. If MS wants me to buy Vista, they need to SELL Vista. And as Vista, not under a pseudonym.

[abijnk]

I guess what I find annoying about these ads is that I still haven't figured out what they are trying to sell me. :o

"I'm a PC," ok, cool. So I should go buy an HP and install Fedora on it? Sweet, thanks for the heads up!

Kinda reminds me of this skit from Lewis Black:
"You don’t even know what they’re selling, until the very end. Three rabbits are on a log, and one of them goes home and hangs himself- buy a bike!"

[belvdr]

I guess what I find annoying about these ads is that I still haven't figured out what they are trying to sell me. :o

That seems like a lot of the ads these days. You watch it, and think "What is this?" and then it's an advert for jeans or cologne. Weird stuff.

[Lancetx]

The PC adverts make me think "Yup - I'm one of them"


And they make me think "Yup - I was one of the PC sheep for years myself, but I finally wised up and I'm not any longer"

[belvdr]

And they make me think "Yup - I was one of the PC sheep for years myself, but I finally wised up and I'm not any longer"

Not me. I use whatever is best for the task at hand.

[Lancetx]

Not me. I use whatever is best for the task at hand.

As do I, when I have the choice. This coming from someone that has no choice but to use a PC for 8 hours a day.

[belvdr]

As do I. This coming from someone that has no choice but to use a PC for 8 hours a day.

Yep, same here. :)

[Lancetx]

Yep, same here. :)

That's the thing, most Mac owners are like you and I in that they also use Windows PCs on a daily basis as well. Many like myself also have Windows installed on their Macs via Boot Camp or virtualization like Parallels.

I'd venture that the overwhelming majority of those that primarily use a PC at home have rarely if ever used a Mac, much less done so on a daily basis. So they really can't make a valid comparison between the two based on hands on experience. I was that way for several years myself prior to buying my first Mac. The only exposure I ever really had to Macs before that was at the store.

[sangosimo]

^ Yup. I personally love to see the "new" "innovations" that Windows 7 has. Not to mention the tacky Aero interface. Microsoft has to trick every customer to buying it. In the Mojave project, they probably bought really expensive computers with cutting edge technology in order to make Vista seem useable. If I took a 1K computer, it still would have trouble loading Vista. Not to mention they probably used the best computer hardware out there + the Ultimate version of Vista. This is reminiscent of the days when PC was cheaper and Mac was more expensive. Today is quite the opposite.

the computer in my sig cost 1k ( I bought it with 8800gt). Are you telling me that my rig will struggle with vista? There are far too many mac users that know nothing about computers. I wonder how many macrumors users have built a rig before.

[liptonlover]

I don't find them annoying, I just think they're regular, boring, commercials. I can't believe anyone could find them funnier than the mac ads, unless they mean as in laughing AT the pc ones.

[kdawg]

I don't know if anyone else caught it but in one of those PC adds the last person to speak is a tattoo artist who says, "I am a PC and I make people bleed"

LOL I thought to myself, how true... I couldn't believe the add was even approved... but someone caught it cause it had a very short life.

[iObama]

I'm still baffled over the fact that they spent $300 million, and all they could come up with is Jerry Seinfeld and these "I'm a PC" ads.

I also think it's funny that when the PC says "and I've been made into a stereotype," he's wearing the suit that that are saying is stereotypical.

[The Flashing Fi]

Alas, you are probably correct. I do know that I won't support a company-wide switch to Vista without a good reason. "Good reason" being defined as that which helps the company improve the bottom line. I see no reason to convert, either a gain in technology or improved performance to the business.


And that's a great decision. Don't spend money unless you need to. That's generally the basis of any well run business. ;)

[gilkisson]

And that's a great decision. Don't spend money unless you need to. That's generally the basis of any well run business. ;)

Well, thanks... we try:o

Kinda makes one wonder, what *is* driving Vista's sales? If it doesn't do anything wow gee-whiz different/better/special, what's driving it? Hype, perhaps? Hype and Mojave?

[djellison]

"The “I’m a Mac and I’m a PC” commercials, the dancing silhouettes, and the catchy unknown music in iPod ads cost $486 million in 2008. Wow."

http://industry.bnet.com/technology/1000574/apples-advertising-budget-revealed/

Wow indeed. Makes the Seinfeld ads look cheap.

And yes - the guy in the 'I'm a PC' ads is wearing a suit to look stereotypical - BECAUSE THAT'S THE STEREOTYPE THE APPLE MARKETING DEPT HAVE SET UP.

[3247]

Kinda makes one wonder, what *is* driving Vista's sales? If it doesn't do anything wow gee-whiz different/better/special, what's driving it? Hype, perhaps? Hype and Mojave?The fact that you can't get a new PC without Vista? Even if you buy a PC with a dual XP/Vista licence and run XP, it still counts as Vista.

[siz]

If you click on a link on http://www.windows.com/ it links you to the I'M A PC STORE! http://www.zazzle.com/imapc Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

PC STORE FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Microsoft is getting desperate,
Another great reason to buy a Mac.

[MisterMe]

"The “I’m a Mac and I’m a PC” commercials, the dancing silhouettes, and the catchy unknown music in iPod ads cost $486 million in 2008. ...The fact that you don't know the music does not mean that the music is unknown. To the contrary, the music is very well-known and sells a butt-load of iPods.

[appleindeed]

yes, they are lame and annoying making windows even more uncool.

[djellison]

The fact that you don't know the music ....

Not my words - they're from the story I linked to. Next time you want to jump down someone's throat - check it's justified first.

[n8mac]

Hi, I'm a mac. I can't stand on my own merits, so I lie, and exgagerate things about PC to make me feel good. I just look cool but I don't really have any use for me in the real world.

Hi, I'm a PC. I don't have anything good to say about myself so I will just take $300 million and use it to let everyone know that they already use me which is a total waste because they are already using me and they know it. In my ad campaign I will tear down the very walls that make my OS safe and private so that everyone can attack me via the internet. I will lie in order to get people to admit that I am good although the good that I am is just eye candy that I put on top of something that already worked that I poked fun at Apple in the past for using when going to OS X just so I can milk everyone out of another $300. Then I will take that $300 and put it towards the ad campaign for Windows 7 which will really be just XP with the looks of Vista without DOS. Then I will take the profits off of mom and pop who bought Windows 7 and use it to pay off some small country that has less capita than me so that they only use Windows. When making Windows 7 I will attempt to outdo my previous best and make an OS so impossible to navigate, so insecure, so automated that will make illegal operation errors found in Windows 98 look like jaywalking in Mayberry, that I will prove to the world that the only reason I have had an existence over the past three decades is because developers keep writing programs for me and I will use their hard work to hold everyone hostage and claim the right to the bestest OS ever to infinity and beyond.

The end

[drichards]

I'd never label myself as pc. Politial correctness is ridiculous.

[MacBoobsPro]

The thing that cracks me up about the "I'm a PC" adverts, is right at the end, when the slogan comes up, "Microsoft windows, A Life Without Walls" if we don't have Walls we don't need windows.

This made me laugh. :D

[pilotError]

Are these ads still running?

I haven't seen one in a while.

[drichards]

Are these ads still running?

I haven't seen one in a while.

Computers, tampons, dick pills, and beer - staples of advertising, day in and day out.

[three]

I'm tempted to go to one of their recording booths, and record me saying I'm a Mac and holding up a MacBook.

[Solemony]

I have always hated those...Wish I could just ripped them out of my TV...

..I actually have a PC friend who's the exact opposite of me. Everything I love about mac is being hated by him and everything he loves about PC I hated so much that I want to punch his brain out...*arggh*. Every now and then I would see his laptop crashes unexpectedly or freezes out of the blue..WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT THOSE LAME LAPTOPS.....*>.>*

[Red-red]

A previous poster hit the nail on the head with these and exactly what i think when I watch this.

99.5% of PC users have only ever used a PC, they don't know of anything else. So of course they are PC's, why Microsoft feel the need to preach to an audience that already use PC's I don't know, the adverts don't even tell you anything about PC's, what's good about them, why these people use PC's instead of .... instead of what? ( that's the reaction of the majority of people )

I've yet to find a Mac user who hasn't or doesn't use windows. I use XP when I have to. Plenty use it at work etc but we choose to use OSX because we prefer it. Rather than just using it because that's all we know so these I'm a PC adverts will do nothing to switch mac users to a PC.... and that's the only conceivable target I can think these ad's were made for baring making Microsoft feel better about themselves.

The I'm a mac adverts work because they stretch out and define what a mac is to PC users who don't know what a mac is and what it does. They may be stereotypical but it works to define the brand while giving people information on the difference and benefits to switching to a mac.

The microsoft ad's confirm to me that Bill gates uses a mac, that some guy with a headband uses a PC, some guy who wears jeans and that fatality uses a PC to game on....:confused:
They should have focused on the benefits of PC's, what PC's can do, how easy they can do it, the features of the OS over the likes of OSX or XP.......I can see why they came up with what they did.