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HP Accidentally Uses macOS Screenshot in Ad for Windows Laptop
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I would go with your silly designer theory even though it is boring.
It does however reveal a lot about both designers, add company’s QC and the people at HP’s knowledge about computers ;-)
Its a fake ad by a fake account on reddit, it doesnt even link to anything. I can't believe you have a front page article about this
I’ve always used Macs, but on occasion I have had to buy a windows machine. I always fell into the cheap hardware trap. I wouldn’t blame windows for the problems I encountered, including an HP laptop with such a small permanent SSD that it was impossible to update software.So perfection means cheap hardware with a good OS
But it is still Windows-shmindows.
Windows 12 was teased and it looks very familiar 😅
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Tale as old as time. The half-assed creative who made this used a Mac and lazily took a screenshot from their browser on Gmail and didn't look back.
Looking at the ***** copywriting and graphics here, though, was this even intended for the US market? What the hell kind of tagline is "..For all the necessary aspects of your job" anyway? Nothing to get people fired up than fulfilling the necessary aspects of their job!
Looking at the ***** copywriting and graphics here, though, was this even intended for the US market? What the hell kind of tagline is "..For all the necessary aspects of your job" anyway? Nothing to get people fired up than fulfilling the necessary aspects of their job!
All photos are edited ... including of course the ones on Apple website. Meaning ... don't understand the relevance of your question ... or you may have missed the irony and sarcasm of my post. Who knows.
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This was a youtube thumbnail endeavor at some point, typos in the image or title prompting engagement in pursuit of correction.
I think your reeding into sum of these posts to much, it's just a pear of words. Although it's fare to halve a brake and heir yore morning of the cereal misuse of plane language. Isle do my part, of coarse, and right good. Your welcome.
I'll admit I missed the sarcasm in your post. Apologies!
Oh hail yeah!🤩So perfection means cheap hardware with a good OS
I might finally get a real Pro machine (256G RAM, RAID 5, expansion out the whazoo) running OSX. I'd stick it all in a G5 chassis.
My own story is from only about fifteen years ago: I was working at an-employer-which-will-remain-undisclosed-for-obvious-reasons, and while doing inventory of surplus hardware cluttering up the warehouse, someone identified five or six unopened hi-specced Mac Pro towers. They were sitting untouched, because the (presumably graphics) department which had ordered them never came to claim them for some reason or other. The list of identified surplus hardware was much longer than just these Macs, (I don't remember specifics, but it was the usual suspects... various monitors, printers, old 1U and 2U servers, etc.) and it was sent around to everyone in our business unit with the question of whether or not anyone wanted to take ownership of any of the hardware on the list. (Edit: for work use, not personal use.) My supervisor jokingly asked me if I wanted them for my team, because he knew that I was a Mac guy at home.20 years ago, when I was working for HP, I tried to get my manager to buy me a Mac to do some web page development. Maybe now I could actually get that request approved.
Now, I say jokingly, because he knew full well that it would be difficult to get them past security -- but just wait a sec: My team had already been afforded machines that were specced higher than the incredibly inadequate standard user baseline -- but "hi-specced" on a Mac means something dramatically different from "hi-specced" on a standard Windows box. The so-called "hi-specced" Windows computer sitting under my desk at the time was still just another mini-computer with a slightly faster CPU and double the RAM of the standard baseline. That PC couldn't possibly hold a candle to these Mac Pro multi-core-multi-cpu behemoths. Even if I wiped macOS from the machine entirely and installed just Windows, (which I offered to do!) those Mac Pros would still have represented an astonishingly huge upgrade over the crap that they'd already provided. So I actually pushed for them. Hard.
The final word?
"Not a single Apple computer will ever connect to my network, period." - Security
And sadly, this story could have easily played out at any number of companies.
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We don't know if this isn't merely a design study, but if real, it's interesting.
Vista adopted the Mac OS X style of making (some) notification icons monochrome / more glyph-like
7 then made taskbar icons a lot larger and defaulted to removing the app label
11 defaulted to centering the taskbar
12 apparently moves the notification icons entirely out of the taskbar
All that's missing is the menu bar.
Plot twist: mistake was intentional.
More people talk about HP laptops and tomorrow nobody is going to remember this "marketing mistake" because, frankly, who cares.
Genius marketing.
More people talk about HP laptops and tomorrow nobody is going to remember this "marketing mistake" because, frankly, who cares.
Genius marketing.
Windows PC maker HP appears to believe that "the perfect laptop" is one that runs macOS....
Well, they're not wrong.
