HP Accidentally Uses macOS Screenshot in Ad for Windows Laptop

[Mrjoedot]

FedEx ever did.

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good find

 

[macduke]

Probably did this on purpose to go viral.

It's kinda working. Here we are.

 

[atomic.flip]

Probably did this on purpose to go viral.

It's kinda working. Here we are.

Literally my thoughts as well. Image is just fuzzy enough to cast doubt on any copyright issues.

But most likely what happened is the graphic artist working for the ad agency was using a Mac (with Adobe Creative Cloud running, you can see the icon on the menu bar, and they have some updates to install… shame on them)

They probably took a screen shot of their desktop rather than risk pulling some image of an actual windows desktop from somewhere else online which would be subject to copyright and could cost HP a dollar or two in royalties if they were caught.

Plenty of publishing houses and image repositories run a nice side gig extorting larger brands for misuse of the most absurdly mundane “images”.

 

[ian87w]

Love it. Still, cannot beat the Samsung marketing team posting their tweets from an iPhone.

 

[TQT]

Of course,...accidentally.

 

[com.B]

FedEx ever did.

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That’s Linux with XFCE, not Mac OS.

 

[Wildkraut]

Maybe they were just doing a remote desktop session. 😏

 

[swingerofbirch]

Well, Apple accidentally made Compaq's former VP of Corporate Materials its CEO, so these things happen.

Let's see which fixes their mistake faster.

 

[laptech]

Somebody who works for the company that designed the ad clearly has a problem with their boss(es) or HP because no way would an ad like that get through HP's screening process. Some people are getting fired me thinks.

 

[RimasM]

Accidentally​

 

[Danfango]

Agreed. The HP Z line - which you could probably say are a step above again from 'business' class - are very good Windows machines, and I'd be quite happy to be issued one for work over say a Surface Pro.

To be fair I’d rather have an etch-a-sketch than a surface.

 

[Realityck]

So this is confirmed to be real and posted by an official HP account?

I wonder if this isn’t a prank also. Not like someone would do something that dumb or could they.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Then HP ”accidentally“ gets exposure splashed across the internet for a humdrum ad that very few would otherwise even have noticed. Whatever 👍

 

[n-evo]

That ad is marketing for Apple whether they show macOS or not. Looks like a 2009 PowerBook.

A 2009 PowerBook. Right.

 

[Stanick]

Could be running a virtual/remote machine

 

[chucker23n1]

A 2009 PowerBook. Right.

I used one with my 1994 iPod.

 

[dampfnudel]

Guessing it's not from HP, but a marketing agency they hired. Could be the agency decided they wanted to show a working PC, so they Photoshopped the display with what they thought was a generic Gmail screenshot, but didn't pay attention to where the screenshot came from.

Yeah, a marketing agency that may never do ads for HP again.

 

[ninecows]

Well… it’s only nearly perfect. The logo on the lid still says HP instead of an apple

 

[Wildkraut]

Agreed. The HP Z line - which you could probably say are a step above again from 'business' class - are very good Windows machines, and I'd be quite happy to be issued one for work over say a Surface Pro.

Yep, rocking here a ZBook Fury G8 17" with XEON cpu and NVIDIA RTX A5000/16GB graphics.

 

[TechSpank]

So this is confirmed to be real and posted by an official HP account?

Yeah that's my first thought too - this is a horrible ad and doesn't look like anything a professional would create. The copy is weak, has a typo, and the image is poorly done. It doesn't even mention the name of the product. This looks like some silly little mockup a student or someone made for class.

 

[no_idea]

God bless them

 

[Nuno Lopes]

No. This is not the work of some silly designer using macOS with no access to a Windows machine that decided to take a screenshot of his own screen and snap it in the HP ... "The work needed to be done for yesterday". That is almost impossible to be the case.

HP must be using Hackintoshes and who knows …. maybe HP is trying to show or exposed accidentally that is so good that their hardware illegally runs macOS …. This is way more plausible.

Your brains just got hacked by Macrumors … your trusted source. Careful.

 

[darngooddesign]

Well they did say "perfect laptop"...

Even HP knows that the perfect laptop runs MacOS. 🤣

#honestyisthebestpolicy

 

[chucker23n1]

No. This is not the work of some silly designer using macOS only that decided to take a screenshot of his own screen and snap it in the image. That is almost impossible to be the case.

Wait… you think a shot like that is an unedited photograph?

 

[boyarka]

Well, why not? Spoof or just a blunder... that set aside; of course a LOT of people would love OSX on desktops/laptops other than Apple's own. That is literally the reason behind the very existance of "hackintosh" community.
Not everyone wants overpiced prosumer hardware ... people want options, options Apple refuses to provide.