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hvfsl
Feb 26, 2003, 06:32 PM
In a print ad touting digital music solutions, a recent Gateway ad features an urban hipster jamming to tunes on his notebook--a PowerBook G4 Titanium notebook to be specific. Gateway said the inclusion of the Mac notebook was a production error and said the ad ran in just one publication in December before being pulled.
[Feb. 19, 2003]

The above is from cnet. I have noticed a lot of this over the years with our PC companies, it seems the advertsing departments doesnt even know the products they sell.


MacFan25
Feb 26, 2003, 06:38 PM
Ha, thats pretty funny! :D

It seems like they could at least tell it wasn't a Gateway before they put the ad in. :rolleyes:
beez7777
Feb 26, 2003, 07:18 PM
i think this was it:
G4scott
Feb 26, 2003, 07:33 PM
Haha! That's funny...

Stupid Gateway...
Stelliform
Feb 26, 2003, 07:33 PM
Originally posted by MacFan25
Ha, thats pretty funny! :D

It seems like they could at least tell it wasn't a Gateway before they put the ad in. :rolleyes:

:) The ad company probaby are Mac Users. They probably got a kick out of slipping it in :)
scem0
Feb 26, 2003, 09:37 PM
that was the one they were using when they were copying it.:o ;)
Shrek
Feb 26, 2003, 10:09 PM
I think Apple should buy out Gateway. Ha! :D
bousozoku
Feb 27, 2003, 07:01 PM
Most likely Gateway hadn't given them the laptop computer to photograph so they had to put in something as a placeholder. They just forgot to change it. :D

It's as bad as those screens in OfficeDepot and other office stores' flyers where they have Internet Exploder for Mac running on a Windows machine.

However, remember, no one uses Macs. :D