Name movies or TV shows that have used a Mac

[masterjedi73]

Let's compile a list of any movie or TV show etc. that has used a Mac somehow in the show. I can think of a bunch right off the top of my head, but I think we should limit how many we each put down so that we can give others a chance to put some in as well...I'll limit myself to one per day until I've exhausted all of mine. Make sure you list how it was used too...

Have fun!

I'll start simple and early.

Star Trek IV - Scottie uses the Mac to come up with some formula or something...

[phillymjs]

Seinfeld featured several Macs during its run. Let's see... started off with a compact Mac, probably an SE/30. Moved on to a DuoDock setup, and then to a TAM.

I'll add another show: Good Eats, on the Food Network (great show, if you've never seen it). Alton Brown's Mac laptop gets some airtime once in a while. I've seen him using an original iBook and a TiBook in a couple different episodes from different seasons.

~Philly

[tdhurst]

Ross and Chandler both had powerbook g3s on friends, and Scrubs uses the TiBook.

[mklos]

The Drew Carry (spelling?) Show used a purple iMac for quite sometime.

There were some episodes of Home Improvement where there was the original iMac up in the boys room.

I'm not quite sure about this one...but the "new" Lingo on game show network uses a Mac Keyboard and Mouse so I imagine they use a Mac to run the Lingo board.

The Price is Right has given away Macs before, just last week they gave away a G4 iBook.

[danscott]

Independence Day

Jeff Goldblum uses a powerbook.

I believe that sarah jessica parker uses a powerbook in Sex in the City

There is a kids show that my 3 year old watches that has a Flat Panel iMac in the background.

There are a ton of movies that are using macs in them now.

The local(in Rochester NY) commercial for Roadrunner. All the desktop shots are OS X.

[AdamZ]

They appear on the Bernie Mac ( ha ha ) show quite regularly. I also see them in many many commercials, most notably Time Warner Cable. In fact they copy the Apple commercial with the white backrounds all the time!

[nospleen]

I have seen a few macs on Dawsons Creek. Errrr, I mean, my wife saw a mac on Dawsons Creek. :D
They even had one episode where Dawsons dad wants to buy him a pc laptop. Dawson does not want it because he is a mac guy. He goes on a little diatribe that you are either a mac guy or a pc guy. (again, my wife told me this.);)

[wordmunger]

Off the top of my head:

Jurassic Park (but bad guys use PCs)
The Net
What not to wear
Designing for the Sexes
Doonesbury (Not a TV/Movie, but still...)
Blondie (ditto!)

I'm sure there are a LOT more.

[Cypher3]

I saw a powerbook on "Average Joe" show last week. They had a piece of tape over the apple logo though. I also saw an iBook on last weeks Chapelle show, again the apple logo was covered by tape.

[kanker]

I saw a 15" TiBook on Monk a couple of weeks ago, and I've seen quite a few Flat Panel iMacs on a variety of shows, just can't remember which ones.

[Inspector Lee]

I don't own a teevee but I must get in the mail once every two months the following catalogs which use Macs to accentuate their products:

1) Pottery Barn
2) Crate and Barrel

I've seen Powerbooks, iBooks and iMacs in the catalogs. Also, if you happen to venture into one of these stores they have colored eMacs adorning the desks they are selling - at least at the stores in MI.

[m4rc]

24, Mac's everywhere!

Marc

[TEG]

CSI:
CSI: Miami
Spike TV (Self Promtion ad uses 17" AluBook)
Drew Carey (Had a PM7200, A Cube, and now a bunch of iMac2's. At home started with a PS/2 [I know a PC] then a Blueberry iBook, then and iceBook... don't know what he has now)
ER (Dr. John Carter has a Ti/Alu Book as his personal Computer)
Monster Garage (at least an Apple LCD for Computer Graphics)
Star Trek: Enterprise (All the LCD's are controlled by 16 G4 Cubes)
Monk (You usually see at least one Mac per episode)
Saturday Night Live (Almost all computers used are Macs... Plus the web-cam sketch uses Safari in OSX, used to use Netscape in OS9 until this season.)

TEG

[B@SS_SHOCK]

1) Rove Live! (Australian talk-show thing)
*He uses a Powerbook on his show, before that he had a iBook Tangerine.

2) Sex & The City (Wonder why nobodi mentioned it?)
*Mostly Carrie's old G3 Powerbook. One episode had her G3 fooling up, where some Mac error terms spring up a fair bit.

3) Smallville
*A lab of CRT iMac's

4) Hackers (Can hackers be socially aware New Yorkers? No, I didn't think so!)
*Features Motorola 68040 PowerBook Duo's & a PowerPC PowerBook Duo. However the actors acknowledge that the PowerPC Duo had a RISC P6 chip???? No wonder they f**cked up the official site when it was released....

5) Sooooo many anime's feature Macs. Some old 80's mech ones show old 128k's even.

PS: Please don't stone me to death for watching Smallville, it's only to check out Kristin Kreuk! :D

[ChrisH3677]

I'll hafta have a good think about his coz i have seen a few.

"Daddy Day Care" which i saw a couple of days ago, opens with Eddie Murphy working at a Powerbook (asleep at it actually). It features quite prominently several times.

Also, just about every "Behind the scenes" I see on DVDs is like "Count the Macs".


Maybe Macs feature so often because of the old entertainment industry adage "Never work with children, animals or PCs" :D :D :D

[invaLPsion]

In the West Wing they all use 15 inch aluminum powerbooks with the presidential insignia over the apple.

In Judging Amy I've seen new iMacs, old iMacs, and powerboks everywhere.

[Horrortaxi]

They're basically everywhere--commercials too. Historians would think we all used Macs in this time period based on TV exposure.

Whenever the Simpsons use a computer it has the Mac look--the interface anyway. When Homer did his "work from home" thing his computer "gonged" when he turned it on.

There was a bit on Chappelle's Show last week that used a whole bunch of iBooks. Then there was the bit last season where he said how much he likes to watch porn on his Mac--high resolution and nonstick keys.

We should do a study--Mac vs. PC in the media. Watch a whole bunch of TV and when you see a computer note whether it was Mac or PC.

[johnnyjibbs]

TV shows - Spooks (UK) had a prominant set of Macs in the office - from iMac flat panels to G4s and cinema displays. They also had some iBooks.

24 - Macs in that
Superman (New Adventures) - Macs running System 7..

Movies - just about every one you can think of. This is because Macs look classy and most movie scripts are probably written on Macs anyway.

A couple off the top of my head..

Austin Powers Goldmember - Austin uses a TiBook
What Women Want - B&W G3, iMacs, G3 PowerBook..
Bridget Jones - G3 iMacs aplenty

The general rule of thumb is: Macs are used as the computers. If there are any PCs they are reserved for the bad guys. In some cases (e.g. 24) you can guess the bad guys and even plot twists by judging who uses a PC and who uses a Mac..

[revenuee]

- Forces of nature
- 40 days and 40 nights (which i succesfully completed as a challenge, so it can be done :p )
- School of Rock
- Mission Impossible and Idependece Day (common there were commercials)
- Kate and Leopold

Macs are everywhere, they are stylish, good looking computers and easily fit into most decors, vs "UGLY BAIGE BOX"

i have always figured it would be easier to throw a Mac into a shot seeing how the movie makers are probably working them as it were, "borrowing" it for a given shot seems logical to me.

[Applespider]

You'll see them use in most catalogues to sell desks/office set-ups/kids room simply because a Mac always enhances the room, there are no cables to detract from the furniture you are selling, and because they have small footprints, they make the desk surface look lots bigger too.

They're in M&S's new catalogue (minus logo)
and John Lewis (with screen showing)

And to stay a bit more OT, in the only segment of the BRIT music awards last week, there was an AlPB shining out from behind the synth during Duran Duran's set

And wasn't there one in 'You've Got Mail'

[jaw04005]

The West Wing - C.J. uses a TIbook in practically ever episode. Toby uses a G3 powerbook or did.
Sports Night
Happy Family - use iCal and an iMac
Two Weeks Notice
Novacane
American Pie
Austin Powers 3
Friends

[apple_iBoy]

I remember seeing an older iMac in the room of the teenaged girl who buys the farm early on in The Ring. Agent Starling is using OS 9 on her home computer in Hannibal. I think I remember a couple powerbooks in the Mission Impossible flicks. Reese Witherspoon had a tangerine iBook in Legally Blonde, and just a couple weeks ago, I noticed a couple iBooks in Lost in Translation. And of course the big guffaw that comes from Tom Hank's investment in Forrest Gump

On TV, I remember seeing Apple products all the time on The Pretender and The X-Files. I remember seeing a powerbook at least once on Alias.

[NP3]

and probably the worst use of a mac in a movie/tv show:



Zoolander


(for those of you who haven't seen it, Owen Wilson throws a tangerine iMac onto the runway at a fashion show from fairly high up)

[oldschool]

I think that of all the scenes with computers that I've ever seen, 99% of those computers are macs.

I remember seeing Macs in movies being used to hack into places, and I would think "i can't hack anything on my mac!".

[markoibook]

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
Willow uses an old Powerbook in the older seasons, but in the newer ones she uses a new iBook!

[klaus]

Stuck on you!

don't know if it's an ibook or a powerbook, maybe you guys can tell me.

http://users.skynet.be/bk318948/stuckonyou.jpg

I know, i took the screenshot with a pc, but i'm at work so :)

cheers

[Savage Henry]

[QUOTE=Horrortaxi]
Whenever the Simpsons use a computer it has the Mac look--the interface anyway. When Homer did his "work from home" thing his computer "gonged" when he turned it on.QUOTE]

As a general rule of another thumb, the Simpsons writing team are generally Mac fans, but this is nothing compared to Mac fan club that makes up the Futurama production staff, especially David X Cohen. Each of the four series have positive Mac references throughout, be it through on screen Apple II images, technology start-up bongs or on the outer space stock exchange with the following two stock prices rolled by on a display, ring any bells:

.... MSW -14 ... OSX +24 ...


[numbers not directly quoted, but you get the picture]

[AnotherMortal]

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
Willow uses an old Powerbook in the older seasons, but in the newer ones she uses a new iBook!

Hehe, I was going to say that if no one had!

On Angel (Another Jos Whedon series) they have a G4 Cube running on its side in Fred's lab next to a 20something inch Apple Flat Panel Display.

And in the BTVS episode where she starts as the guidance counselor, she has an iMac FP on her desk.

[chadgates]

Star Trek IV - where scotty speaks into a mouse of a mac plus
and if i remember my teenage years properly...
Beverly Hills 90210 - Brendan used a power book

[dukemeiser]

Yes Dear had a PowerBook that they actually used to look up something on the internet that was part of the plot.

[virividox]

24
smallville
friends
scrubs
csi

uv got mail
somethings gotta give
a few pixar movies have cameo macs in them

[klaus]

paycheck has apple lcd displays as well, I just remembered (saw it yesterday :D )

[fleaworld]

Jurassic Park - Old machine
Spooks (UK) - Loads, mac heaven
Buffy - Macs for good guys, PC's for villians
Idependence Day - Powerbook G3, why didn't he use the airport to send the virus?
Watchdog - (UK) IMac 17" BBC Consumer rights programme
Tomorrows World - (UK) IMac 17" Technology programme
Good Food Live - (UK) IMac 17" Cooking programme

[javabear90]

Bullet Proof Monk-- the "Bad Girl" has an iBook with the forest screensaver.

[TBR]

I always say 'MAC' when I see one on TV and this is usually at least once a night. Done it so often that friends of mine do it now without even thinking. They're everywhere!

Of special note the iMac's in the newspaper office in smallville are actually empty. Becouse they are see through you can see right through where the back of the CRT should be :) - well in the first series or so anyway.

[revenuee]

and probably the worst use of a mac in a movie/tv show:



Zoolander


(for those of you who haven't seen it, Owen Wilson throws a tangerine iMac onto the runway at a fashion show from fairly high up)


"where are all the files?" .... LOL

[Veldek]

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
Willow uses an old Powerbook in the older seasons, but in the newer ones she uses a new iBook!

I already thought noone would mention it...

In one episode the principal of Sunnydale High walks into his garage with Spike to fight him. In a corner there's a Power Mac G4 standing with a (23"?) display and he starts iTunes to play a song which plays through the fight.

[1macker1]

Barbershop 2 has 2 macs in it(a PB and a iMac). But the 17" PB is in view 50% of the movie, and the apple logo is standing out.

[TEG]

As a general rule of another thumb, the Simpsons writing team are generally Mac fans, but this is nothing compared to Mac fan club that makes up the Futurama production staff, especially David X Cohen. Each of the four series have positive Mac references throughout, be it through on screen Apple II images, technology start-up bongs or on the outer space stock exchange with the following two stock prices rolled by on a display, ring any bells:

.... MSW -14 ... OSX +24 ...


Don't forget the opening of one episode where it states "Bender's Jokes provided by Microsoft Joke" obviously referring to M$ being a Joke.

Other Shows/Movies:

Charmed
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Austin Powers 2&3
Home Improvement
Just Shoot Me
The Real World


TEG

[timsq]

Don't forget 'ole Barbra Walters on 20/20 with her iMac FP.... nice and well placed!

[r6girl]

I always say 'MAC' when I see one on TV and this is usually at least once a night. Done it so often that friends of mine do it now without even thinking. They're everywhere!

Of special note the iMac's in the newspaper office in smallville are actually empty. Becouse they are see through you can see right through where the back of the CRT should be :) - well in the first series or so anyway.

:) i do that too. it drives my husband nuts every time i say "there's a mac" when we're watching tv or at a movie. he thinks i'm a total freak about macs. oh well.

oh, i was going to say stuck on you, and buffy (the imac when she was a counselor at the high school). sex in the city, of course - miranda uses a newer powerbook than carrie. although aidan bought her a clamshell ibook at one point in an earlier season, but in the final season she's back to using the black (wall street?) powerbook. i wonder if she ebayed the ibook? :D

[BlueMars]

You can spot Macs in 'Runaway Jury'. Gene Hackman’s secret control center appears to have numerous Mac displays and the character John Cusak is playing does his dirty work at home on an iMac.

The goofiest line in the movie comes when Cusak refers to critical files he's stored on his “mp3 player”, rather than calling the device by the name everyone knows it as - an iPod.

[varmit]

Any commercial that has a computer in it, other than dell commercials. They are either TiBooks or the new iMac.

[jgrow]

Gals & Guys,

What about Legally Blonde 1 & 2, she uses MAC's.
In Canada, we have a wireless company, Fido, the president is sitting in front of a Mac PB 17".
Spike TV has one of their commericals that show a PB, with the Apple Logo.
Bringing down the House, Steve Martin uses a MAC PB.
Dr. Phil shows him using and communicating with his guests using the iSight on various iMac's.

Just my two cents, or 1.67 cents Canadian

[Le Big Mac]

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days had them all over the chicks mag office.

Doonesbury uses a Mac interface when it simulates a computer screen. But then again, like 90% of print ads use a fake mac interface when simulating a computer screen that's not specific to the ad.

[studebakerhwk13]

Femme Fatale

In addition to cameo appearances on his show, Alton Brown uses his Mac to do voiceovers for Good Eats

[bry223]

School Of Rock, the classroom has 2 iMac's, 1 17' and 1 20' model.

[g30ffr3y]

cold creek manor

[bry223]

There was also a child with a Powerbook in School of Rock

[tomf87]

In You've Got Mail, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan email each other with Macintosh computers. I have no idea what models, though.

[Mord]

the bbc uses macs in 90% of there shows like cbbc (lame ass childrens stuff) they use macs

did anyone see blue peter give away a newton on a competition man i wanted that the presenters were playing with inkwell I cant remember the modle but it was the blue one that looks like an ibook.

citv (cbbc's competitor) use an old style 15" apple studio display.

watchdog had imacs but got pc's :(

that cool chennel 4 interview with Ive

that stupid aol advert

in stargate sg 1 I could have sworn i saw a mac at danial jacksons house


sadly mac's are being phased out of the bbc the only department i know of the uses them is the video editing for fcp and web desighn which my freinds mum demands the use of a mac.


but overall you just cannot beat the indipendence day apperence

"the powerbook thta saved the world."

[UKMacBod]

In the UK, the sitcom 'Absolutely Fabulous' have often had an LCD iMac in the background in their kitchen.

The teenager in the sitcom 'My Family' has a G3 iMac, if memory serves.

[dontmakemehurtu]

:(

[Mord]

n ab fab as they had a g4 cube in the basment and the doughter titanium powerbook never noticed an fp imac

[Grimace]

Office Space used a mac - but it was coupled with what appeared to be DOS. It looked like OS9...then suddenly a command prompt - in the "escape" and "virus" scenes.

[Savage Henry]

In the UK, the sitcom 'Absolutely Fabulous' have often had an LCD iMac in the background in their kitchen.

The teenager in the sitcom 'My Family' has a G3 iMac, if memory serves.

They also had te Cube for one series, which must be a rare spot for any anorak Mac Spotters

[janey]

the drew carey show has featured Macs since god knows when :)
iMacs/iBooks/G4 Cubes/PowerBooks/iPods/Macworld/Macaddict, name anythign Apple/Mac related and it's probably been on the Drew Carey Show.
Alias also has lots of Mac stuff too. I think the CIA (in the TV show) uses either Xserves or Dell rack mount servers though, not sure.
But Legally Blonde 2 only featured a pink iPod, with lots of Gateway notebooks :(

Apple gets tons of free advertising in all sorts of movies and TV shows. Unfortunately for Microsoft, they have to pay them to put their products in there :)

[jared_kipe]

Stargate SG1 used Final Cut on the last one I saw.

[Mord]

They also had te Cube for one series, which must be a rare spot for any anorak Mac Spotters


i already said that

[theipodgod16]

the drew carey show has featured Macs since god knows when :)
iMacs/iBooks/G4 Cubes/PowerBooks/iPods/Macworld/Macaddict, name anythign Apple/Mac related and it's probably been on the Drew Carey Show.
Alias also has lots of Mac stuff too. I think the CIA (in the TV show) uses either Xserves or Dell rack mount servers though, not sure.
But Legally Blonde 2 only featured a pink iPod, with lots of Gateway notebooks :(

Apple gets tons of free advertising in all sorts of movies and TV shows. Unfortunately for Microsoft, they have to pay them to put their products in there :)

there's a brand new gap commercial for stress free khakis, where the guy is seen holding and listening to an ipod (white headphones tip it off) at least twice. Not really a computer, but still..

[ebuddy889]

Let's compile a list of any movie or TV show etc. that has used a Mac somehow in the show. I can think of a bunch right off the top of my head, but I think we should limit how many we each put down so that we can give others a chance to put some in as well...I'll limit myself to one per day until I've exhausted all of mine. Make sure you list how it was used too...

Have fun!

I'll start simple and early.

Star Trek IV - Scottie uses the Mac to come up with some formula or something...Remeber the sit com Night Court? Judge Harry Stone had an SE or a Plus over in the corner in his office.

[TEG]

Remeber the sit com Night Court? Judge Harry Stone had an SE or a Plus over in the corner in his office.

Yes, and his clerk was called Mac, but his real name was Macintosh. He said it was because he was "The Apple of the Family."

Also, Canada's Telus Phone service DSL uses Drew Carey styled Macs in commercials (ie the Apple is replaced by a circle)

My two Local ABC affiliates use Mac OS in some of their promos, usually using IE, but some times using Safari. (KOMO & KATU)

The CBS Affliate in Flint, MI used Safari to advertize their website.

TEG

[operastarlet]

felicity had some macs. Noel had an Imac, and felcity had a clamshell ibook. the character ruby also got a mac, though I don't know if it was ever shown, there was lots of talk of macs though when she was thinking of buying a computer.

[Mord]

there are macs everywhere in 24 the daughter has a clamshell in the first serise and the office is covered in studio displays

[win_convert]

I am pretty sure that Rove [live] actually use sony viao's because they give them away all the time and make a big deal out of it all the time. Unless they have changed since I last saw rove last year, silver doesn't always mean apple.

[wowser]

There's an advert on UK tv at the mo. A guy is sending messages on his MSN messenhger on his PC, whilst his girlfriend sends emails back to him on a mac (u can only tell it's OS X) . The volkswagon advert does this time lapse thing where the guy upgrades to a G5 over time

[Danrose1977]

Meg Ryan used an old powerbook in "You've got mail" I'm probably wrong, but I think it was a powerbook G3.... but thats just speculation.

[7on]

Duplex, Ben Stiller uses a Prismo (I think) and Barrymore uses a Ti. Her work is also sporting iMacs. What is funny though, when the prismo accidently falls into the fireplace, it looks like there might be PC ports on the back...

There should be a show that focuses on Macs. Like a couple of mac fans and their exploits in a Windows world. I'd watch that.

[brdoco]

In Foxtrot, Jason's computer isn't a mac.. but it is (literally) in the shape of an Apple, called an iFruit.

Bill Amend uses macs to do the strip, too: http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/12/17/amend/

[claytonbench]

Boston Public and my all time favorite show SEINFELD

[jade]

girlfriends on UPN, they all use Tibooks, Albooks and other apple laptops.

I saw a commercial for a satellite cable internet provider that had i belive a Tibook to demonstrate their wifi everywhere service.

Here is a french website that has it pretty well covered.

Apple au cinema et a la television (http://www.taho.info/mac/vu/index.html)

[asif3]

I noticed a white iBook on 'Home & Away' today (it's an australian soap they show here in the UK.)

Also, in Absolutely Fabulous (UK) , I've seen:

*flower power iMac [in the office]
*iBooks [edina's web designer has one]
*studio displays [office & home]

lol, I also have the habit of saying 'Oh, is that a Mac?' when I see one on TV. It winds everybody up :)

asif

p.s. you should see me when the ipod ads come on! :D

[heyadol]

5) Sooooo many anime's feature Macs. Some old 80's mech ones show old 128k's even.

Speaking of anime, in Neon Genesis Evangelion somewhere around episode 17 they not only use a Powerbook to monitor Unit 01, but I've been told that a NGE branded Powerbook was actually available for resale as a special promotion from Gainax and Apple. I saw a picture somewhere but it was years ago...
The background in Gunbuster during the "Aim for the Top! Science Classroom" is an old mac (the show was late 80's/early 90's so whatever was current then).

And for markoibook, the lab where they built Buffy's nemesis in Season 4 had a cluster of G4s. I Don't ever remember seeing a mac at a guvmint facility but i've never been to a lab...

[zodiac]

Dennis Quaid is using a mac on cold creek manor. Parts of that film were shot in the town i live in too. :) That small town where there is a scene with one of the main characters(i forget his name) cop and her sister is shot in front of the local hardware store where i live.

[TBR]

Just watched that new Series 'Wonderfalls' and there's two iBooks in the second episode, and older style and the new.

[billyboy]

I saw a 17" powerbook in some garden design show in the UK.

The current series with Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan about the media, he has an iMac on his desk.

Whats that film where the girl forecasts an accident that then happens and the carload of friends she is watching it with are killed off one at a time? One lad has a Mac in a box when he moves into his flat.

[g30ffr3y]

the movie runaway jury has a g3 imac, a bunch of tibooks, cinema displays, and a 1g or 2g ipod which they kindly refer to as "the mp3 player" [it was used to back up the data from the imac]

[jasylonian]

one of the all-time chick flicks disguised as something men would want to watch: Coyote Ugly. If I remember correctly, Piper Perabo was sporting a clamshell so she could make tunes.

[thejazzman10]

Movies-FREAKY FRIDAY- there are macs everywhere there
TV-ive seen macs in ALOT of commercials, you just have to look.
in home depot, there was a display of an iBook on a wooden floor, pro apple mouse and all!

[Slipperyskates]

Boston Public uses them a lot.

They're everywhere in "School of Rock"

[rickvanr]

Ross and Chandler both had powerbook g3s on friends, and Scrubs uses the TiBook.

JD does have a Tibook, you even have shots of him using OS X... but don't forget all of the iMac's at the nursing station, and Dr. Kelso has an iMac in his office.

[DVDSP]

In You've Got Mail, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan email each other with Macintosh computers. I have no idea what models, though.

Actually, Meg Ryan has a Powerbook but Tom Hanks uses some PC notebook. It makes sense since she has a tiny store and he has the big mega store that is trying to take over everything.

We saw Taking Lives last night and Ehtan Hawke uses a Mac, they never show the computer (that I saw) but you see the Cinema Display a couple of times and they even have a close up shot of it and they are using iMovie to review some video footage.

[dontmakemehurtu]

:(

[g30ffr3y]

the ben stiller movie duplex uses a g3 powerbook... im not sure which [wallstreet, pismo, lombard] whats the difference??? the lombard has the bronze keys correct??? the apple was upside down when ben opened it... thats weird...

theres also a tibook that drew barrymore uses and a 23" cinema display...

[wdlove]

I saw a 20" Cinema Display on "Without A Trace" last evening.

"Law & Order" uses them a lot.

[jackieonasses]

all pixar movies....toy story etc....

[Sparky's]

wdlove I can't believe everyone missed "Law & Order",
also "Law & Order SVU"
and I believe a PB showed up on Comedy Centrals "The Daily Show"

[wowser]

This has probably already been mentioned, but in Futurama, when they go to the Robot Planet that Bender finds himself head of, the horns they play make the iMac 'startup sound'

[homeshire]

The Saint --
Val Kilmer works with an older laptop, old enough that i'm not sure what it is.

[RHutch]

wdlove I can't believe everyone missed "Law & Order",
also "Law & Order SVU"

I also read through all of the posts waiting to get to one mentioning Law & Order. (I watch all 3 of the series every week.)

Also, on a less popular WB show, Grounded For Life, there is a tangerine iMac in Lily's bedroom.

I know I see Macs all the time, but right now I can't think of other shows or movies where I've seen them. I also yell out "Mac" when I see them, which I think annoys my wife and my brothers.

[musicpyrite]

I have seen a few macs on Dawsons Creek. Errrr, I mean, my wife saw a mac on Dawsons Creek. :D
They even had one episode where Dawsons dad wants to buy him a pc laptop. Dawson does not want it because he is a mac guy. He goes on a little diatribe that you are either a mac guy or a pc guy. (again, my wife told me this.);)

I saw the episode. Errr I mean my gf told me. :D
Dawson's dad slammed Dawson when he said I want a Mac.

[musicpyrite]

They also use a 20" or 23" display on the movie Paycheck.

School of Rock: A 6th grader had a PowerBook, and in one of the classrooms, there were 2 or 3 FPD iMacs.

Freaky Friday: A teacher in the teacher's lounge had a 15" PowerBook.

[wowser]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Interfection: The pop up ads on Frylock's computer are the OS 9 style ones (and close from the top left)

[Marlon_JBT]

the ben stiller movie duplex uses a g3 powerbook... im not sure which [wallstreet, pismo, lombard] whats the difference??? the lombard has the bronze keys correct??? the apple was upside down when ben opened it... thats weird...

theres also a tibook that drew barrymore uses and a 23" cinema display...

That's not weird, it's normal. They were all like that. Dunno why.

Other appearances:

The Brothers Garcia - Nickelodeon (At least a display)
Clockstoppers - TONS of iBooks

[TimDaddy]

Not exactly a t.v. show, but I was impressed. At the Toyota plant where I work, we have old PC's running Windows 2000 sitting around everywhere. Today, we got to see a video during our daily five minute meeting. They often use this time for pro-company propoganda! Today's video was about how "American" the new Solara is. In one scene, they showed the designers in California working on the styling. G4's everywhere, OS X, Apple Keyboards and mice, and Apple displays! I'm glad to see that some of our shrinking bounus is being well spent! :)

[Stormyguy]

The volkswagon advert does this time lapse thing where the guy upgrades to a G5 over time

That VW ad is cool :)

[wowser]

That VW ad is cool :)

yeah - i think when the ad first came out he finished with a new iMac, but how has a separate screen, like for a g5

[apple_iBoy]

The husband character in "One Hour Photo" uses a Power Mac with cinema display.

[kbonnel]

I just always get a kick when I see a PB in a movie/show, and the apple logo is taped over :D

[About2SwitchOvr]

I just always get a kick when I see a PB in a movie/show, and the apple logo is taped over :D


The main guy sported the 23" Cinema display (couldn't remember the brains behind the monitor) but he did some real nice Video editiing in it...
I guess ever since I got this iMac 20", I've been noticing them more...
Cool idea for a thread :-)

[mactastic]

Well I've seen the guy from the Netflix ads using a TiBook. I've also seen Steve from This Old House using a TiBook as well.

[question fear]

"Something's Gotta Give" diane keaton writes a play/IMs with Jack Nicholson on a tibook.
Also theres a powerbook used as the symbol for SPIKE tv whenever they show star trek.

[parrothead]

There are several Macs in Stuck on You. I have seen Macs in several Friends episodes. The computers in Youve Got Mail are not all macs. Tom Hanks uses an IBM and Meg Ryan uses a Powerbook.

[TimDaddy]

Tom Hanks uses an IBM and Meg Ryan uses a Powerbook.

The mean, rich, white corporate man uses a PC. The caring, idealistic, victimized woman uses a mac. Did they do that on purpose?

[billwest9999]

"Something's gotta give" with Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton and Keanu Reeves. Good movie, by the way.

[PowerMacMan]

EXTREME MAKEOVER (HOME EDITION)

Ty (Spelling?) uses a PowerBook for house plans :)

[aus_dave]

I just always get a kick when I see a PB in a movie/show, and the apple logo is taped over :D
That happens a lot in Law and Order - I've never seen so many PostIt notes on displays, there's always one right in the middle at the bottom :D.

I saw 'Raising Helen' the other day (chick flick, wife chose it :rolleyes: ), in one scene in a modelling agency there were about 6 studio displays to be seen.

[DGFan]

I went to see Stepford Wives last weekend. Nicole Kidman's character was using a 17" PB in one scene. It's pretty easy to spot Powerbooks with the big glowing Apple logo
:)

[TBR]

Was wathing Holyoaks yesturday (UK Teen Soap) and one of the characters was listening to an iPod although you only saw the distinctive headphones. Part of the plot was that he was buying expensive gadgets.

[radhak]

What percentage of these did the Mac get destroyed/smashed up/ otherwise eliminated spectacularly? HULK, for one, had that Lab scene where he first grows out his clothes and some lovely 17” iMac become collateral damage. Independence Day had one such scene, though I cannot place it accurately now.

Personally, I think hollywood uses Mac as an elitist gesture, just like they cast Jennifer Aniston as a superstore clerk : who wants to go the movies and see normal people or stuff that normal people buy/use? And in this goal, the Mac with its small market footprint suits them a lot; and the fact that Apple products pretty-up the scene is just bonus.

Of course, being a computer professional, most of the times a computer occupies center stage in a movie or a scene (as opposed to looking pretty in the background), I cringe more often than not. Most of the programs are made to have unrealistic interface (like a large ‘e’ the size of the whole screen revolving lazily to announce new email – ‘Disclosure’ and many others) or downright make-a-fool-of-the-audience script.

The virus scenario of Independence Day was so lame: our champ sends out a virus to infect the machine of extra-terrestrials without knowing what sort of machines they had (simplistic situation – what if he sent out a windows virus and they had unix?) :D

Jurassic Park had the young girl using a computer to secure-lock the doors against some wily velociraptors; but first she says, “It's a UNIX system! I know this!” and it was a Mac!

[7on]

Personally I think Hollywood uses Macs because the prop designers use them, and it's simpler to use computers they already own than going out to buy a new computer. Take for instance Ben Stiller's Wallstreet in Duplex. It had OSX on it and non-default icons in the dock. Of course when it's in the fire and then gets run over it's a different notebook but still.

[TBR]

I'd love to think that there are some big mac fan prop designers using gurilla tactic to infiltrate as many movies as possible and swap those pc's with some beautiful mac's.

[jazzmfk]

Here's a few that I don't think have been mentioned yet:

There's a United Way commercial featuring kicker Martin Grammatica (NFL) and a classroom full of kids. He checks out what some kid was working on, and an animation shows him missing a field goal (or something like that). The classroom is actually a Mac lab (the most lime iMacs I've ever seen in one place!), but every logo is taped over or has a post it or something.

I saw an HBO special last week on do-it-yourself porn. (No, really, I was, um, interested in the cinematography and the, um, lighting. Really). Well, anyway, two of the filmmakers/actors were discussing the editing process (see! I told you it was educational!) with their 17" Powerbook up close and personal (no pun intended...)

In "The Firm", they have some ancient Macs - remember the scene where he's copying some info to a floppy and it takes forever and a day (I miss that sound sometimes. Not for long, but sometimes...)

Also on the History channel a few weeks ago, they were interviewing some college professor about translating some forgotten language. It was great to see some screen shots of the 20" Cinema displays (I think there were some MDD's running this quite impressive set up).

and yes, I'm one of those people who checks to see what computer is being used in every movie or show I watch. I'm proud of my choice of computer - I just want our minority to be properly represented on screen!

Say it loud! I'm Mac and I'm proud!

[jknight8907]

Obvious because its a computer show but...

The Screen Savers, everyone does or has used a mac on there at some point.

[wdlove]

That happens a lot in Law and Order - I've never seen so many PostIt notes on displays, there's always one right in the middle at the bottom :D.


It was on "Law & Order" that Detective Briscoe notice the use of "Marine Aquarium."

[LANcaster]

In the new Garfield movie Jon has a G4 and a cinema display, see http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0356634/Ss/0356634/G-133.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0356634 .
It's a shame the movie sucks.

[asif786]

This is sort of related - I've seen chandler from friends reading macworld on a number of occasions (in the show).

also, the daily mail offices are filled with flat panel imacs.

[brdoco]

vh-1's I love the 90's...

During the interviews, the background is the afterdark flying toasters screensavers. macs are in the artwork of the shows opener thing, as well as the mac startup sound.

[alexstein]

I just spotted that little Anthony in the Sopranos(5th Season) uses an iBook and an iPod.

[question fear]

also in sucky movies, without a paddle featured an imac in matthew lillard's house.

ok, so it wasnt totally sucky, seth green and lillard redeemed a bit.
but you get the idea.

[CubaTBird]

ITALIAN JOB USED PC'S..... AND DELL, they really showed the dell logo's in that movie in great valor if you noticed.

[TDM21]

Obvious because its a computer show but...

The Screen Savers, everyone does or has used a mac on there at some point.

It is especially interesting when they start to convert one of the cast members over to mac. They talk about how they used Windows and found just as much usability in mac.

Although I think Patrick and Kevin are using Dell laptops on the show now. I'm not for sure since I haven't seen an episode in about a month.

[homerjward]

this may have been mentioned before cause i didnt have time to read the whole thread but once on saturday night live this guy went into a store with grandma to buy her underwear and as soon as they got there he said he was going to the apple store and she made him stay

[PwrMac19]

#1 I know in a rerun of Boy Meets World that I watched the other day because I was bored had an orange imac just sitting on a shelf sideways for looks...not to be used, but for looks (no keyboard mouse or nothing).

#2 In the movie Timeline I noticed a couple 23" apple displays and I think they were run on a cube (not sure).

#3 In a one of Nelly's music videos on MTV, he is using ipod headphones but you can never see the ipod!!

(#4 This isnt on tv but at the restaurant, O'Charleys in North Carolina, we have a budweiser poster with a girl holding an ipod and laughing!!!)

[Fredstar]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but on the O.C. they are everywhere, loads of G4 imacs in the school and Powerbooks

[wowser]

I was just watching the trailer for Sharkboy vs Lavagirl 3D and saw some lovely eMacs in the classroom - 3D emacs at that, I suppose!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/sharkboyandlavagirl.html

[neildmitchell]

Will and Grace
Queer as Folk
AbFab
Queer Eye for the Straigh Guy
Sex and the City
Friends
Simpsons
Drew Carrie
Short Circuit
Star Trek IV
Something's Gotta Give
Seed of Chucky
Dodgeball
Garfield
Independence Day
Men in Black
Apprentice (iPod)
Welcome to the Doll House
Dark Territory (Newton)
Meet the Barkers
OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (I dont think it was placed)

you can always tell who the hero/villain is based on what OS they use. The bad guys always use Windows, and the good guys always use Apple. :)

[biohazard6969]

Ross and Chandler both had powerbook g3s on friends, and Scrubs uses the TiBook.
chandler also reads macworld sometimes (or macaddict/machome) not quite sure which one

[bootedbear]

America's Test Kitchen, a cooking show on PBS, prominently features an iMac G4 on the counter in the background. And when they are shilling their website, it's displayed on a 20" Cinema Display.

They lose points though for coding their website in ASP and running it on an NT server.

[verozov]

kind of surprised no one mentioned this, but on collateral they had a G5 iMac in the district attorney's office...

[Nermal]

In this (http://www.fishnclips.com/the_videos/goodshirt_sophie.mov) music video, they steal a lime G3 iMac.

[chaosbunny]

I've read the posts rather quickly, but I think no one has mentioned these:

The beach: In the last scene Leo walks into an internet cafe that has the old iMacs and uses one to check his emails.

About a boy: Hugh Grant has a Cube and a (I think) 17" Cinema display.

[wowser]

Although the SEinfeld one has been mentioned, it's cool when Michael Richards talks about it in the commentary.

[mikemodena]

Alright.. heh this one my aunt had on one day for my cousin and I happened to watch it..

Zoe 101 on Nickelodeon with that Jamie Lynn Spears girl. She uses an ibook with her school logo over the apple.

[macbaseball]

There are tons of Macs in Fever Pitch. Like in the office there are 23 inch displays all over the place and she gets hit in the face while typing on her 15 inch Powerbook.

[eva01]

GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) anime series has a G3 and a Powerbook in it

[nagromme]

On some shows, the good guys use Macs and the bad guys use PCs.

On Buffy and Angel, the good guys end up using iBooks/iMacs and the bad guys use PowerMacs :)

On Buffy, Willow had about every generation PowerBook from a 3400 (or similar) to a Lombard/Pismo WITH the rare blue-and white LCD Studio Display (and maybe a blue-and-white tower too). At school she used generic PCs.... but they always ran Mac OS :) Angel is glad they still used floppy drives...

Willow ended up with an Airport-equipped 14" iBook that they all shared, and Buffy and her boss both had 20" iMac G4s. At home, her boss had a PowerMac of some kind.

The Evil Trio used PowerMac G4s and heaps of huge Cinema Displays.

And on Angel, I've seen G4 Cubes and Cinema Displays at W&H.

On the software side, both classic Mac OS and OS X were used, and the browser of choice seemed to be IE5.

Most importantly, iTunes played a pivotal role in the final season of Buffy :)

And of course, the Buffybot was Mac-compatible. Its creator used Macs, and an iBook was used to control it.

Sadly, Macs on Buffy tend to meet bad ends. Hope they had backups.

Now you know....

[iRachel]

They use macs on Alias a lot - with a big red dot over the apple logo. You would think, that, for CIA agents, they would come up with something that looked a little more sophisticated/high-tech, but whatever. unfortunately, they also use dells a lot. Also, Town Haul (TLC) - the whole design team uses macs, and same with extreme makeover home edition.

[wordmunger]

Just finished watching Meet the Fockers... Macs all over the place in that one. But the father uses a PC.

[wowser]

You mean DeNiro? Maybe it's to contrast his lifestyle against the hippy Hoffman's. :)

[neildmitchell]

brandcameo - Film (http://www.brandchannel.com/brandcameo_films.asp)

browse 2002-2005 movies by year or brand

Apple
Top films appeared in: 27
Films: Austin Powers in Goldmember, Bringing Down the House, Cradle 2 the Grave, Daredevil, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Dodgeball, Elf, Hide and Seek, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Hulk, Jackass: The Movie, Mean Girls, Meet the Fockers, Men in Black II, Monster-in-Law, Mr. Deeds, Ocean’s Twelve, Sahara, School of Rock, Something’s Gotta Give, SwimFan, The Forgotten, The Interpreter, The Pacifier, The Recruit, The Ring, The Ring Two

[DJY]

They use macs on Alias a lot - with a big red dot over the apple logo. You would think, that, for CIA agents, they would come up with something that looked a little more sophisticated/high-tech, but whatever.

I'm surprised it took till Page 6 for this one to come out! I did notice that page 1 mentioned Alias once... but season 4 every episode has Mac's! There are lots of PBs, Sidney also had an iMac in her bedroom, plus I recall seeing an iPod or two as well.

Australian Idol also used to show a PB every week - when the music guy was working with the Idols on their songs for the live show each week.

Since I switched last year I seem to be noticing more and more of them - we are everywhere!

[acedickson]

Until 2 posts up I had one movie for you guys: The Hulk (2003)

TV:

One Tree Hill - Fox
The character "Peyton", played by Hilarie Burton, has a 20" ACD (plastic). Ivaguely remember an iBook and a PB at different times during the show too. The Apple logo has been covered everytime.

Call For Help 2.0 - G4TechTV Canada
iMac G5 and PB's used by cast

[dsharits]

In one of the Left Behind movies (can't remember which one), the Antichrist uses a Pismo.

[GilGrissom]

Ofcourse they use Macs on CSI! :cool:

Meet the Fockers too.

[jruc4871]

HBO's Entourage.

G5 iMacs all over Ari's office.

[greatdevourer]

OK, 2 that I've just seen. I think there was an iMac G5 in The Island, but probably not, considering just how M$ised it was in the way of advertising (would have been nice, except they kept on zooming in on brandnames so that you knew precisly who and what was helping fund the movie)

And there are many a Mac in Silent Witness (crime drama)

[Mord]

whats with the threadromanceing?

[dcv]

I saw 8 Simple Rules the other day (shown on UK freeview channel ABC1) - the teenage son has an iMac with iSight.

Most UK home makeover shows/style shows feature either PowerBooks or Sony Vaios if they show a laptop.

Many magazine adverts show an iBook or PowerBook

Also a couple of UK tv adverts showing at the moment feature a PowerBook/iBook, including Virgin trains.


(this is indeed an old thread but what the hell!)

[PaRaGoNViCtiM]

The L Word: Everyone on there uses a Mac! I know nobody here probably watches this show, so you're not gonna know who these people are but...
Bette: G4 iBook
Bette at work: iMac G4, PowerMac G5 with 23 inch Cinema Displays
Alice: G4 15" Powerbook
Helena: G4 17" Powerbook
Mark: 2 G5 PowerMacs with 2 23 inch Cinema Displays
Jenny: G3 Powerbook Pismo
Every cast member has an iPod, iPods are constantly given as gifts. Macs are thrown in your face in almost every single scene. I have never seen a show display more Macs!!!

The Movie Duplex:
Ben Stiller uses a Pismo (Which gets run over by a car)

This list could go on forever!!

[Lacero]

I thought this thread got wastelanded by our beloved Mr. Anderson?

[Jacksteruk309]

The movie 'HACKERS', it has Angelina Jolie in it.

Anyway, the guy has what I think might be an Apple Lisa, and they use the earlier Powerbooks too, and theres a few laptops that look like toys you would buy out of the corner shop.

Oh, and the guy has an Newton lying on his desk, but I dont think he ever actually uses it in the movie

Oh, and in that program on Channel 4, Supernanny, Jo Frost uses an iBook to show the parents where there going wrong, and I'm sure they use a Powerbook to show people the houses theyve visited in one of those property shows on BBC.

And Miss Congeniality 2: Armed (with a Powerbook) and Fabulous

[mduser63]

I watched National Treasure the other day. It was full of PC laptops (HPs it looked like), but EVERY time they showed what was on the computer screens, it was Mac OS X. Interesting discrepancy.

[MacRy]

I may as well join in with this.

Joey the spinoff froom Friends series has a PowerBook in it used by his nephew Michael but it has a huge sticker over the Apple logo.

[zflauaus]

There's a scene in Constantine where the girl closes the Powerbook.
Legally Blonde 1 has the original iBook in it.
That's it for now.

[Lacero]

There's a PowerMac G5 in the movie Blade:Trinity for anyone who's seen it or posted the finding before.

[DeSnousa]

There's a PowerMac G5 in the movie Blade:Trinity for anyone who's seen it or posted the finding before.

Don't forget Abigail creating a playlist on her powerbook then listening to it on the iPod.

There's plenty of Macs on Australian tv commercials, there a face creme add, cup of soup ad more.

[asif786]

slightly different, but British Airways' latest billboards have shown:

i) a white apple pro mouse (wired)
ii) the side of a pb g4

the mouse one is really obvious..there's nothing apart from like 'ba.com' and a huge picture of the mouse with the logo showing.