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Intel's Latest PC vs. Mac Ad Involves a 'Social Experiment' With Apple Fans
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No matter how cool it looks, the minute I see Winblows, I want nothing to do with it. It's remarkable that some of the applets in Windows 10 have nearly the same interface from Windows 95. Some parts of Windows 10 have the new interface, and some put you in a time machine that goes back 25 years.
Windows 10 on the left, Windows 95 on the right.
Windows 10 on the left, Windows 95 on the right.
That two screen laptop is a monstrosity. Two different screen techs, two different screen finishes (glossy/matte), there's no way the colors are the same between the two views. Then, the hell that is the off-center keyboard, tiny trackpad, and the fact that it's running windows.
Seriously, this is about as cringy as that stupid chevy commercial when they were trying to make it seem like that car was totally as amazing as a Mercedes, bmw, audi, or other expensive luxury car -- because it had a leather steering wheel!
Seriously, this is about as cringy as that stupid chevy commercial when they were trying to make it seem like that car was totally as amazing as a Mercedes, bmw, audi, or other expensive luxury car -- because it had a leather steering wheel!
The great thing about Macs, you can go to terminal and download source projects from GitHub and make them on the CLI. Windows either has a executable or you're out of luck.
The problem is apple willfully don’t provide two things in any product.
1: games
2: upgradability.
I love the Max os and iOS.
but iPad are trash( good luck transferring GoPro data to edit anything.
and games are a joke, forcing anyone who have an interest in gaming to invest in windows instead. No normal person buys two computers for one separate task.
and the impossibility to upgrade RAM, M.2/ssd memory and the consistency of dongles for everything.
this forces people like me to buy a PC and perhaps down the line a cheap as mac mini
Mac pro is outrageously expensive for anyone not a professional
Most of our customers seem to struggle with it either taking ages to load up, not scanning on the card reader correctly, or just not working at all. Never seem to have any issues with Apple Pay at all.
Pick one mentality works by the logic of money don’t grow on trees.
Ether you buy a mac for only work an no fun. Or you buy a PC that you can do work and fun.
apple should absolutely provide GPU support to the next M2 max and pay game studios to provide their titles on the mac. Provide the superiority of the mac platform with that piles of cash.
First rule of warfare. You don’t allow the enemy the time to become a legitimate threat. You do all you can today, not when it’s to lateThen why is Intel trying so hard to appeal to Mac users and their 7% market share?
Smells like desperation.
Look... I'm a Windows guy. Always have been. My primary computer is a beefy custom-built Intel desktop.
But my next desktop will be built with AMD Ryzen inside. Sorry Intel.
And my next laptop will be an M1 Macbook Air. I've already been using iPhones and iPads for decades so I want to dip a toe into the Mac world. Battery life on M1 machines makes it great for a portable computer. No Intel there either.
But I'm just one man. I'm not gonna affect Intel. Like the comment above says... Intel isn't going away anytime soon. So again... why does Intel seem so desperate lately?
These ads are cringe.
Don't remember seeing people on MacRumors being asked to do a commercial for intel.
Intel is chips. Apple is laptops. Are they going against macs? They should be focusing against amd.
This is Intel's shot at the M1. That's it.
Intel today shared a new ad titled Breaking the Spell: Social Experiment. In the four-minute video, Intel invites 12 supposed Apple fans to a focus group showcasing features of "upcoming devices" that were, in fact, PCs that are already on the market. The ad was spotted earlier by French website MacGeneration.
The video starts out by saying that many Apple fans only care about Apple products, and Intel attempts to change that viewpoint. The supposed Apple fans are ushered into a room that looks similar to an Apple Store, creating the impression that they are being shown new Apple products, but the devices are actually PCs powered by Intel processors.
According to Intel's Ryan Shrout, the ad features each participant's "real" reactions instead of scripted ones. "It's surprising to see how many people that utilize tech still don't know the capabilities of the PC," he said in a tweet.
The ad is part of Intel's #GoPC marketing campaign that it launched last year after Apple started transitioning to custom Apple Silicon chips in Macs. Intel even recruited former "I'm a Mac" actor Justin Long for some of the ads.
Article Link: Intel's Latest PC vs. Mac Ad Involves a 'Social Experiment' With Apple Fans
So, they're not completely wrong.
First, touchscreen keyboard? Go F yourself. DO NOT WANT.
Touchscreen on a laptop? Meh. Really, meh. Don't care, don't want, don't need, have had before and never used. No, not on a Mac, I've been around a long time and I've used a LOT of computers. Touchscreen was cool and exciting on a display in 1982, when I played with one at the world's fair. It's GREAT on a phone. It's a LOT less useful on a bigger display, and YES, that includes the iPad, which is a toy, not a computer.
Upgradeable RAM and storage? YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!! Sorry, fanbois, these are critical Apple screwups. There is ZERO excuse for the garbage Apple is doing now.
Laptop that opens more than a MacBook Pro does? Would be kinda nice. Not critical, and I'd really not want to give up reliability for foldability. But hey, Apple's current thin fetish ditched reliability anyway, so why not?
First, touchscreen keyboard? Go F yourself. DO NOT WANT.
Touchscreen on a laptop? Meh. Really, meh. Don't care, don't want, don't need, have had before and never used. No, not on a Mac, I've been around a long time and I've used a LOT of computers. Touchscreen was cool and exciting on a display in 1982, when I played with one at the world's fair. It's GREAT on a phone. It's a LOT less useful on a bigger display, and YES, that includes the iPad, which is a toy, not a computer.
Upgradeable RAM and storage? YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!! Sorry, fanbois, these are critical Apple screwups. There is ZERO excuse for the garbage Apple is doing now.
Laptop that opens more than a MacBook Pro does? Would be kinda nice. Not critical, and I'd really not want to give up reliability for foldability. But hey, Apple's current thin fetish ditched reliability anyway, so why not?
why can’t we just have the option? No disadvantage exist to our ability to change the m.2 drive or just the ability to ad a m.2 drive if you insist on soldering it.
why not give us the ability to upgrade the ram? Or at least the ability to ad one or two extra sticks if you are going to insist on soldering things down?
Why should fun need to be prioritized away from work? Why should you even need to pick between a PC for work and gaming or just a max for only work?
the lack of games on the max is entirely a result from apples anti gaming behavior.
No laptop/iMac/ mini with modern GPU hardware. Bad driver support by apple with other GPUs. The insistency of having 5+ year old OpenGL drivers (when they used them) no vulkan support( cross platform GPU code) now insisting like Microsoft with their locked down ActiveX and now apples Metal. Metal is now apple exclusive.
apple gives zero incentives for games to be made for Mac…
I could buy a 6k Mac Pro from 2018 with a crappy overpriced GPU if you plan to play games
Or perhaps a Mac Pro from 2012 with PCIe 2.0 and a CPU not even able to compare to an i3 today
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This has not been the case for many years. You just install, say, Ubuntu Linux in WSL from Microsoft Store and use the regular git commands in Bash or tcsh or whatever shell you prefer (in a new Windows Terminal). In most cases, one will be using VSCODE which integrates with source code management systems like git/github just fine.
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Two?
<looks around room><loses count at 25><and that's just one room, pretty sure the count is well over 100 in the house>
Ok, I'm not really 'normal'. But yeah, lots of 'normal' people have no problem with having two computers these days.
Right. And this ad won’t change that fact much. At the MOST they could possibly hope for, it goes from 90% to 98%? We agree Apple Silicon is a blip, I’m sure Intel recognizes that, too. So… why even acknowledge that a competition exists?
My question, tooThen why is Intel trying so hard to appeal to Mac users and their 7% market share?
Smells like desperation.
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But I'm just one man. I'm not gonna affect Intel. Like the comment above says... Intel isn't going away anytime soon. So again... why does Intel seem so desperate lately?
Intel is around for the long haul, this commercial isn’t altering the status quo much. It’s not even doing what the Mac vs PC ads did which was introduce to millions to the Mac that had no knowledge of it before (everyone knows who/what Intel is).
Don't get me wrong, $1800 mac and I can't play games easily without some crazy reboot, powercycle egpu nonsense.... Really really wish I could play PC games and/or apple committed to games on a mac like they said they were going to.
