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Former 'I'm a Mac' Actor Justin Long Throws Shade at M1 Apple Silicon in New Intel Ad Campaign

1rottenapple said:
I know right. He’s working. Jeeeez. I guarantee he has an iPhone and a MacBook. He’s just working to provide for himself. Everyone here would do work for their family even if it entails participating in a commercial against the apple.
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Had this been Apple who created an ad using one of their competitor’s actors to side with them then people here would trash Apple AND trash the actor. Don’t lie.
 
intel mining the latest dollars trying to sell the few X86 computers there will be builded in the next years…

what specs/systems they will compare to when Windows ARM* start eating X86 market? what OS will they support in their adds?

*of course knowing the huge compatibility backpack Windows has on its back… the transition can take few years longer than Apple.

But ARM has come! Intel face it and move on!
 
NLLV said:
No the ad talks about fan noise, heat etc. The lack of these are all features of the M1 chip.
The character in the ad is a metaphor, but intel failed to see that.

Intel took Justin Long who was symbolic for the "cool" and "hip" mac and just made him Justin. The first lines of the ad are "I am justin" so he does not suddenly represent the brand, but himself.

Is Justin Long himself the "mac guy?" No, he was the mac himself. The ad is weak and I do not think it is very impactful. Matter of fact, the like to dislike ratio and comments section on that video are symbolic for how much it failed.
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LOL. You might be slightly overthinking this.
 
If I had to guess, this is Intel trying to keep the brand in front of people long enough that they can develop their own ARM solution, or at least compete with AMD on specs.

Time will tell. Future is interesting.
 
FSMBP said:
Ugh...that seems desperate on both Justin & Intel's part.

EDIT: I get that he's just making a living; so are the folks at Intel.

My point with Justin's flip-flopping is that seems desperate (like when the Verizon spokesperson moved to Sprint; it is hard to tell if the move is genuine in those scenarios.). I have nothing against Justin Long - may he have a long and flourishing career!!!
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You must believe that Justin loved Macs when he did commercials against PCs. I am not sure he knew what Macs were.
 
I mean he's not wrong. It would be nice to just flip the lid on a MacBook and have it be an iPad. I personally wish I could bootcamp my iPad to double as a Mac. Or whatever word you'd use for that feature. But I'd pay money for it to have one device that does both.

It almost seems inevitable that they will enable the two product categories to be able to dual boot.
Maybe you'll be able to turn any iPad into a Mac, and vise versa? That way you can truly choose the hardware that best suits your needs.
 
FSMBP said:
Ugh...that seems desperate on both Justin & Intel's part.

EDIT: I get that he's just making a living; so are the folks at Intel.

My point with Justin's flip-flopping is that seems desperate (like when the Verizon spokesperson moved to Sprint; it is hard to tell if the move is genuine in those scenarios.). I have nothing against Justin Long - may he have a long and flourishing career!!!
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Justins flip flopping, can you elaborate?
 
thomas040 said:
I mean he's not wrong. It would be nice to just flip the lid on a MacBook and have it be an iPad. I personally wish I could bootcamp my iPad to double as a Mac. Or whatever word you'd use for that feature. But I'd pay money for it to have one device that does both.

It almost seems inevitable that they will enable the two product categories to be able to dual boot.
Maybe you'll be able to turn any iPad into a Mac, and vise versa? That way you can truly choose the hardware that best suits your needs.
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I suppose you could use sidecar to sort of do that? You'd be at home running your ipad as a monitor for your mac and working from it. I've done it. Just haven't dived too deeply into it.
 
This speaks more to Long's acting career than it does to technology... Dude hasn't been in a decent movie since Dodgeball, can't begrudge him a paycheck.
 
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Seems Intel is desperate, and some PC laptops requiring dongles these days if they lack Type-C port in order to use one type-c devices as type-a is now fast becoming the minority these days.
 
Windows will keep Intel afloat, though not soaring. Unless Microsoft releases Windows for Parallels and makes compiling their third-party developers’ code for Apple Silicon as easy as it is in Xcode.
 
Intel's, just like Justin's, boat has sailed. You're both the past, the world has moved on.

(fyi, I have no problem with him making the commercial, he's paid to do it, but ugh, it is cringe at best).
 
Funny thing is, I never saw any of the Mac commercials until after I had already switched to the Mac. So in reality the commercials were nothing more than fodder for those who already owned one. I don't know of anyone who switched to a Mac because of them.

The same is going to be true for these. Of course, I haven't even seen one yet... probably because I haven't switched back to a PC.
 
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While the future of Mx looks bright, I LOL at people predicting Intel's demise. Intel isn't going anywhere.
 
Haha! I'm sure the first thing he did after getting paid for this is spending it at the Apple Store.
I would have taken the gig too if I was an actor.
 
Intel just released their “latest cutting edge” chip 14nm... intel is so behind it’s crazy. Amd and mac arm are the real deal. I cannot believe how behind intel is....
 
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