Get a Mac: The ARM edition!

[dandeco]

Ever since I got classic GoAnimate capabilities back with "Wrapper: Offline," and have been reading on this forum and other sites about the upcoming transition from Intel to proprietary ARM processors in Macs, I couldn't resist doing another parody of those 2006-2009 "Get a Mac" commercials with the Mac and PC guys talking about the impending transition, and the PC guy is actually happy about some things, getting a thrill out of annoying the Mac guy!

Don't worry; just because it's a GoAnimate/Wrapper video doesn't mean it's one of those inane "Grounded" videos or any baloney like that.

 

[Apple_Robert]

About 2 mins too long. A parody should be short and too the point, like the old commercials were.

I didn’t find this funny. The computer voices were hard to follow at times.

 

[dandeco]

I didn’t find this funny. The computer voices were hard to follow at times.

Which is why I added closed-captioning so you could understand what they are saying better.

 

[Juicy Box]

While I would agree with a lot of points the "PC" makes, I wouldn't say it was funny like the 'I'm a Mac' commercials.

Actually, it reminds me of what the original "PC" guy from the old commercials would think is funny, so I guess it knows its audience.

About 2 mins too long. A parody should be short and too the point, like the old commercials were.

Yeah, the old commercials had one central theme and talked about it for about 20-30 seconds to get its point across. They were aimed at casual PC users that really didn't know of an alternative to the PCs that they were using.

I think that a more funny parody would be having I'm a Mac, I'm a Mac commercials, showing how in some cases, Apple made the Macs worse over the past 8 years. Have Justin Long come back as the old Mac and maybe have the modern Mac played by someone that resembles Tim Cook, like Comedian Ryan Stiles:


There could be a few of the old commercials that show the negative changes to recent Mac designs.

One that comes to mind first is the one called "Accident":

 

[dandeco]

Yeah, here's an older parody I did in 2014 that is shorter, at 90 seconds. It poked fun at how most Macs at the time did not come with optical disc drives, but plenty of PCs still did, and most Macs had non-user serviceable parts, like the RAM. Of course now, with very few PCs on the market having optical disc drives, and most desktop Macs having some kind of user-serviceable parts (even the current Mac Minis have user-replaceable RAM), it's kind of dated, but still entertaining to watch...