Intel's Anti-Mac Ad Campaign Highlights M1 Shortcomings

[falainber]

It's not just Apple, Intel is feeling the pressure form AMD as well. Intel is in desperation mode right now.

These ads prop up PC ecosystem and AMD is a part of it.

 

[cmaier]

“If you are trying to peel the remnants of an Intel Inside sticker off your computer’s wrist wrest, you aren’t using a Mac”

 

[MacsAre1]

The one about Rocket League/rocket launch is absurd in its inaccuracy. The one about the touch screens is 100% on point, however.

That said, the company who claimed Moore's law is dead because they didn't want to innovate anymore is walking a fine line trying to criticize a processor that has leapfrogged them in terms of process size. Not to mention that since the M1 is the same chip on Mac and iPad you will see many more apps that run on both platforms, making the iPad compete even more with Windows tablets.

 

[Alan Wynn]

These ads are 100% correct factually.

Sort of. They would be more accurate with Go Windows. There will be Windows on Arm systems that also have touch screens and run this software.

 

[duffman9000]

Intel sounds like a jealous EX. It was really you Intel. It was.

 

[Jimmdean]

The fact that Rocket League is not on Apple systems right now has everything to do with Epic Games and nothing to do with actual technology.

 

[cmaier]

“If you’re enjoying slowly roasting your scrotal region while converting a document to pdf on your laptop computer, you are not using a Mac”

 

[steve09090]

"If you can flip through Photoshop Thumbnails with your actual thumb, your not on a Mac"

You are probably on an iPad with an "A" version chip

 

[ActionGaz]

“Only a PC offers tablet mode, touch screen and stylus capabilities in a single device”

Strange, I thought an iPad had all that, too.

 

[falainber]

Sort of. They would be more accurate with Go Windows. There will be Windows on Arm systems that also have touch screens and run this software.

True but this won't change a fact that Macs don't have touch screens (until Apple develops those).

 

[Benjamin Nabulsi]

2021 and they still trying to sell the idea of USB A and fingerprint smudge touching the screen.
If anything, I would pay for an app the shutoff my screen whenever i touch my screen by mistake!

For a company like intel being scared that much, it tells you how stuck they are in their old ways.

 

[cmaier]

“Only a PC offers the ability to buy laptops with those convenient little feet that always break off. You know the ones we mean.”

 

[darthaddie]

The fact that a chip maker with over 40 years of experience is forced to justify its existence over a brand new “lifestyle” chip maker says volumes. We all know dinosaurs were powerful and they “once” ruled the planet. 😆

 

[steve09090]

Apple: "It's not me, it's you."

These ads are 100% correct factually.

Really only 50% correct. You can definitely flip through thumbnails with your thumb. Either on a trackpad, or on an iPad or using an iPad.

And they are only 50% correct because Rocket League won't be available for Mac or Linux. Meanwhile over in the App Store...

 

[Hastings101]

Damn that's salty stuff. Someone is bitter about the break up

 

[falainber]

“Only a PC offers tablet mode, touch screen and stylus capabilities in a single device”

Strange, I thought an iPad had all that, too.

iPad offers tablet mode? What other modes does it offer?

 

[Porco]

To paraphrase the old saying,

'Sometimes it is better to remain silent and be perceived to be struggling to keep up, than to make desperate ad campaigns and remove all doubt'

 

[falainber]

To paraphrase the old saying,

'Sometimes it is better to remain silent and be perceived to be struggling to keep up, than to make desperate ad campaigns and remove all doubt'

Intel is making record revenues and profits. What’s your definition of "struggling"?

 

[Michael Scrip]

My next desktop will be built with AMD Ryzen inside.

My next laptop will be an M1 Macbook.

Intel who?

😛

 

[ebrainer1]

The grapes are just incredibly sour here. Get over it, Intel.

 

[falainber]

My next desktop will be built with AMD Ryzen inside.

My next laptop will be an M1 Macbook.

Intel who?

😛

You are going to single handedly destroy Intel.

 

[steve09090]

iPad offers tablet mode? What other modes does it offer?

Clearly you can get every app avail on the iPad and use a keyboard / trackpad. Doesn't make this wrong as many people don't need an actual laptop.

 

[steve333]

Compatibility is an issue, which is why Apple went Intel in the first place. They never learn.

 

[Shirasaki]

What Intel is doing feels exactly like a series of certain events happening around USA right now. Definitely the vibe. Why they launch ad campaign like this? This is not just tone deaf, this is doubling down on something they realise wont last long and will cause long lasting damage.

“The rise and fall of Intel” I guess? Is accepting defeat that hard?

 

[falainber]

What Intel is doing feels exactly like a series of certain events happening around USA right now. Definitely the vibe. Why they launch ad campaign like this? This is not just tone deaf, this is doubling down on something they realise wont last long and will cause long lasting damage.

Which events are you talking about? Snowstorms?