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Intel Ad for 'World's Best Processor' Features a MacBook Pro

This reminds me of all those celebrities who are Samsung Ambassadors...

...but they tweet from an iPhone

Or, er, someone from their team, an assistant, tweets from an iPhone. Yeah, that's it... 🤣

This is clearly a mistake made by a 3rd-party advertising company. Yep... they're using stock images. Mystery solved.

Though perhaps Intel should spend more time improving their processors rather than constantly running ads against the 4th-largest PC maker in the world... :p

I know, I know... the marketing team is different than the engineering team. But still.
 
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What's the problem? Intel has no problems with MacBooks. They have issue with the M1 processor
 
And yet, despite Intel being the “best”, I am still leaning towards a Ryzen 7 laptop for my Mom as the equivalent speed Intel laptops cost much more.
 
Destroyed by older 15W AMD 4800U. Intel and Apple are both losers since Macs/MacBooks aren't offered with AMD.

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Gonky said:
These are companies, not your friends. Neither Intel nor Apple care about you, they care about making money. Your post is very weird.
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True. But I think people can like what they choose to use, yet still respect other company's accomplishments, without getting childish about it. Some people literally act insulted if you praise a non-Apple product around here.
 
probably an ad that went into production in a studio so far away from anything intel and sat in the editing room and someone found that and posted the vid on reddit because the mods hate theirs and other lives.

we all know Intel hires advertisers and agencies, and intel does not produce and create their ads, correct?
 
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jlocker said:
They don't use at the moment but their is no stopping Apple from releasing a MacBook Pro 16 will a 11th gen Intel and a M something processor at the same time. When you buy a Ford or GM sports car or Truck you can get different motors. Apple could put out one more MacBook Pro 16 with a Intel 11th Gen to satisfy users what want a Intel processor one last time. And by the way I never use a laptop on my lap, I always use it on a desk so heat does not mean anything.
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Very weird logic that one, considering that the advertising is for something that already exists, not for some hypothetical future product that would not be considered a thin and light laptop, nor one that would use the Intel i7-1185 mentioned in the ad!!!!!
 
This is not a mistake, nor stupid.

This is Intel extending an olive branch since they’ve now figured out they want to be a fabrication partner with Apple. Clearly they regret those stupid anti-apple ads.

the biggest loser is Justin Long. Apple will use Intel if they are cheap and reliable. Apple is a business. But Justin gave up an iconic and historic character for money. What a loser.
 
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This is not a mistake, nor stupid.

This is Intel extending an olive branch since they’ve now figured out they want to be a fabrication partner with Apple. Clearly they regret those stupid anti-apple ads.

the biggest loser is Justin Long. Apple will use Intel if they are cheap and reliable. Apple is a business. But Justin gave up an iconic and historic character for money. What a loser.
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Um, he's an actor. For money. No one does commercials for free.
 
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But Justin gave up an iconic and historic character for money. What a loser.
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To be fair... the last "Get a Mac" ad was released 12 years ago. I'm pretty sure Justin has spent all his "Apple money" by now.

Then Intel came calling.

As others have said... Justin is an actor. They go where the money is.

I doubt Justin has been sitting by the phone for the last 12 years waiting for another call from Apple.

:p
 
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When Apple switched to Intel in '05, I thought at the time it looked like a shotgun wedding, "However wonderful this wedding looks now, it's going to be an ugly divorce."
 
Right up there with MKBHD's exposing Gal Gadot's social media for using iPhones to tweet her using Huawei ads.
 
As a confirmed Apple fanboy that will most likely never purchase an Intel based PC during the remainder of my life, I'm actually rooting for Intel. I think they hit a bump and will pull things together. The last CEO was the classic example of why you DON'T let MBA's run a technology company. The new CEO, Mr. Geslinger, is an esteemed gentleman within the engineering community and I think he has the chops to turn things around. They'll be a couple nm behind TSMC for a while, but they'll catch up in the next few years.
 
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I don't like the snide remarks people are making about Intel since the switch to Apple silicon began. Remember, Macintosh was using Intel for 15 years and it actually breathe new life into the platform. Considering how much PowerPC was a dead end, especially from Motorola on the mobile side, it was very a much crisis if Apple didn't have Intel. I'm sure ARM processors from 2005 to 2015 weren't powerful enough run macOS (OS X).

Keep in mind also, Apple continues to sell a vast majority of their Macintosh portfolio on Intel. We need to respect Intel while saying goodbye at the same time. Some of the comments I've read kinda give the impression of this is how you would treat people in real life too. If a friend helped you out for 15 years and helped you get your work done then of course is starting to decline because another friend can do so same things a little bit better, doesn't mean you need to be nasty.

Even Jobs has talked about this kinda nasty 'us vs them' behavior in past in keynotes (Macworld '97). You wanted Microsoft Office, yet you are booing the CEO of the company who makes it.
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The issue here is that it’s Intel who is launching the attacks. On top of that the ads aren’t particularly well done. Many of them repeat talking points that are more appropriate for Microsoft than Intel. Plus, it is incongruous, at best, for Intel to be attacking Apple and then claiming it wants them as a foundry customer in 2025.
 
I remember around the time I bought my 2011 MBP, reviews in Windows magazines called the MBP the best Windows laptop on the market for the price (referring, of course, to boot camp). I actually bought the computer to do Windows/Android software development and ran Windows at the primary OS on it for about 2 years. Though to be fair I was a Mac user long before then.

I think the fact that this thread considers windows on the Mac to be such a joke just a decade later looks far, far worse on Apple than it does on Intel.
 
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