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Gisele Bündchen, 2 Other 'Get A Mac' Ads Spotted

I suspect that the girls represent the...hardware? I don't know. Looking at this picture...
http://static.flickr.com/95/232927985_79cd0a0b5a.jpg?v=0

Each bring a girl. The Mac gets a good looking girl, the PC gets an ugly guy dressed as a girl. The PC guy looks like he's trying to show off pretending he doesn't have an ugly girl (guy). Mac = pretty, PC = ugly is the message.


I'm trying to think of what they represent, I can only think of the hardware.
 
OziMac said:
Yeah, I like this interpretation - maybe Gisele is OS X and the the dude is XP or Vista. :)
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No. It has to do with the underlying software that is under the pretty point and click GUI. Something like "Yes you can put a dress on something big and ugly but the result is not as nice as when you put the dress on something better designed like BSD. Vista might look like a mac on the surface but the "ook" is about as thin as the fabric in that dress.
 
ChrisA said:
No. It has to do with the underlying software that is under the pretty point and click GUI. Something like "Yes you can put a dress on something big and ugly but the result is not as nice as when you put the dress on something better designed like BSD. Vista might look like a mac on the surface but the "ook" is about as thin as the fabric in that dress.
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The same thing in principle, but I can't see how details like that are going to wash over an uneducated audience in 30 seconds. But let's wait and see. :)
 
ChrisA said:
No. It has to do with the underlying software that is under the pretty point and click GUI. Something like "Yes you can put a dress on something big and ugly but the result is not as nice as when you put the dress on something better designed like BSD. Vista might look like a mac on the surface but the "ook" is about as thin as the fabric in that dress.
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nice interpretation...
 
AML707 said:
My God is she sexy! Too bad there isn't girls like that where I live....
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It's good to be Brazilian...Gisele is just a single portrait of how beautiful girls can be in my home place...actually we have at least 4 Brazilian girls in the top 10 spots for nicest/sexiest models of the world... :rolleyes:
 
ChrisA said:
No. It has to do with the underlying software that is under the pretty point and click GUI. Something like "Yes you can put a dress on something big and ugly but the result is not as nice as when you put the dress on something better designed like BSD. Vista might look like a mac on the surface but the "ook" is about as thin as the fabric in that dress.
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not bad as an interpretation, but too complex for an ad (the BSD part). i think it really is about the OS X beauty "stolen" by vista. I imagine something like the mac guy having a girlfriend and the PC guy being jealous. a moment later he reappears with the girlfriend he "made" for himself, because he couldn't have the one the mac guy has.

as a sidenote: in french, "operating system" translates into "système d'exploitation". now go discuss about the implications of that! ;)
 
  1. Being a Mac fanatic that just bough a 20" iMac. - $1699
  2. Going to the apple store because you realized you were missing that killer utility.- $99
  3. Getting puked on by a PC on a MacRumors forumthread. / Showing your affection for the Mac on a MacRumors forumthread. - Priceless
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By the way... Isn't Gisele that 30-million-girl? Personally I'd say that they could have gone for a cheaper 'model'. Hell!, I would go for a cheaper model myself :D.
 
The Gisele ad is like this:

Mac and PC are talking about how they just made some home movies. PC says let's see yours, and so Gisele comes out and introduces herself as a Mac home movie. PC tries to leave it at that, but Mac prods him into showing his. A large guy in a dress comes out and introduces himself as a PC home movie.


The suit ad is like this:

They say hello, both in suits. PC asks Mac "What's with the big boy clothes?" and Mac responds "I just got back from a meeting." "What?!" Mac says he's been running Microsoft Office for years, so he's good for business stuff too. PC starts to have a panic attack and says he needs to sit down. He sits down as Mac tries to say there's enough work for both of them. PC reclines and doesn't feel any better.


The counseling ad...I don't really remember.
 
The Apple store in Tampa's International Plaza is where I bought my Macbook.

I hope someone puts these ads on Youtube, I would really like to see them but it's a long drive to the store.
 
Frisco said:
Yummy!
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Of course I wanted that image as my desktop. Google helped me out when I entered the phrase "mac supermodels".

For your pleasure:
More Pixels than you can handle.

I didn't know that these girls *are* Gisele and Allesandra. But it's not like I care or something. It are the MacBooks that make this picture hot! :eek:
 
This is transphobic, and is quite disappointing coming from Apple.

If I were transgender, I would be sick and tired of being made a laughing stock in the media, or being described continually as "ugly" or "fake."
 
Juan Lars said:
This is transphobic, and is quite disappointing coming from Apple.

If I were transgender, I would be sick and tired of being made a laughing stock in the media, or being described continually as "ugly" or "fake."
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I find your post to be humorophobic and Appleophobic, and I am highly offended.:eek: Incensed even!:mad:
 
dsnort said:
I find your post to be humorophobic and Appleophobic, and I am highly offended.:eek: Incensed even!:mad:
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Funny, isn't it, that "humor" of this sort is targeted at minority groups.

Sorry if, as a gay man, I don't want my transgendered brothers and sisters lampooned on television - when they aren't taken seriously to begin.

But your post proves that ridicule is easier than actual discussion.
 
Juan Lars said:
Funny, isn't it, that "humor" of this sort is targeted at minority groups.

Sorry if, as a gay man, I don't want my transgendered brothers and sisters lampooned on television - when they aren't taken seriously to begin.

But your post proves that ridicule is easier than actual discussion.
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And your post proves something the comedian Lewis Black said. "When you lose the ability to laugh at yourself, you're done".

I wasn't making fun of transgenders, (which the guy in the ad is not, it's a dude in a wig and dress), I was making fun of you. And not because you're gay, but because you are one of the many people today so entrenched in the victimology of one aspect of your life as to feel a compulsive need to subject every experience to judgement based on some supposed moral superiority conferred by your "victim" status.

But this is becomming a discussion for another forum. Be well, live well.
 
dsnort said:
I wasn't making fun of transgenders, (which the guy in the ad is not, it's a dude in a wig and dress),
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Sadly though this is how the media depicts Transgender people in America. That is when they're not being portrayed as pyschos or serial killers.

Wasn't the best approach for Apple to take to get their point across.
 
Foxglove9 said:
Sadly though this is how the media depicts Transgender people in America. That is when they're not being portrayed as pyschos or serial killers.

Wasn't the best approach for Apple to take to get their point across.
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Sadly, the "new approach" you mention is just that: Political correctness often overrides the fact that people should be able to laugh at themselves.

I'm sorry; the above poster is right...if you can't even laugh at yourself, then just give up and go home. This advert hurts nobody.
 
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