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Microsoft Releases Second 'Laptop Hunters' Commercial

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Eidorian said:
Amusing but the discussion was over USB external BD drives and preferably for a notebook.
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I didn't see the Lite-ON DX-401S at Newegg or Tiger...
 
The commercial is lame. Rest assured MAC supporters...there is a reason MAC has always stood apart form PCx...and with good reason. I must admit that I was a little surprosed when MAC went with Intel chipset...but I guess in a more perfect worls, everyone whould be using MACs now wouldn't they?
 
sjohnson2 said:
The commercial is lame. Rest assured MAC supporters...there is a reason MAC has always stood apart form PCx...and with good reason. I must admit that I was a little surprosed when MAC went with Intel chipset...but I guess in a more perfect worls, everyone whould be using MACs now wouldn't they?
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wut?
 
We know that the best quality products do not receive the most market share. Apple does appear to be whining a little here. Customer "deception" can be a grey area.
 
Chihuahua1 said:
There's one thing that I've never been able to understand. Why do people still use PC's?

Macs run all of the best programs, Macs are faster, Macs crash less, Macs look freaking sweet :D, Macs come without **** on your drive, and Macs can dual-boot Windows for your PC executables and batch files.
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You can author, proof, and burn, and view a Blu-ray disc on a PC; you can't on Mac OS.

So much for Mac's supposed superiority.

Mac's are superior; in price, and in devotion of deaf, dumb, and blind fans.

Reminiscent of Michael Jackson.

And if Apple keeps it up, with the same sudden and unexpected result.

:apple:
 
Who would have ever thought that we'd be sharing verbal blows regarding the epic Microsoft vs. Apple battle in a Mac-centric user forum!

These are strange times indeed...
 
LagunaSol said:
Who would have ever thought that we'd be sharing verbal blows regarding the epic Microsoft vs. Apple battle in a Mac-centric user forum!

These are strange times indeed...
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It is par for course though. In reality I don't think anyone wants Microsoft to go away. That kinda makes Apple no longer a niche player, which removes most (if not all) of the charm of running OS X.

But it sure is fun to rant and rave about it... ;)
 
AidenShaw said:
LOL
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Wow, digging up old news eh?

What's LOL is the way this tool reported this supposed phone call.

Yeah, lawyers threatening you over false advertising is hilarious. You know what's even more hilarious? Seeing the ads changed within a week.

LOL!

I guess Turner was doing cartwheels down the hall all right - cartwheels right down to the advertising department to tell them they had to edit the ads.

Too bad Microsoft can't legally threaten Apple's I'm A Mac ads because they're legally accurate.

LOL!!! :p
 
diamond.g said:
It is par for course though. In reality I don't think anyone wants Microsoft to go away.
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Absolutely not. First, I need someone to absorb all the viruses and malware. Second, it's harder for great products to shine when they don't have mediocre/crummy products to be contrasted with.

Some people are content with mediocrity. And for those people, there's Microsoft (TM)

But regarding all the pro-MS propaganda and undisguised Apple hatred flying around in this Mac users forum, it's clear that the trolls have overrun the castle. I suppose they have nothing better to do while their virus scans are running...
 
LagunaSol said:
Absolutely not. First, I need someone to absorb all the viruses and malware. Second, it's harder for great products to shine when they don't have mediocre/crummy products to be contrasted with.

Some people are content with mediocrity. And for those people, there's Microsoft (TM)

But regarding all the pro-MS propaganda and undisguised Apple hatred flying around in this Mac users forum, it's clear that the trolls have overrun the castle. I suppose they have nothing better to do while their virus scans are running...
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I'm going to stand back because your head may explode but it is your fellow Mac users that you say are trolls. :rolleyes:
 
automan98 said:
We know that the best quality products do not receive the most market share. Apple does appear to be whining a little here. Customer "deception" can be a grey area.
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Clearly Apple wasn't whining, they were insisting on a legal entitlement, which Microsoft has now executed on. You cannot continue to run commercials on facts that are out of date. Fix the facts, and you remove any grounds for legal action. It would be like Samsung saying Apple doesn't sell an iPhone for $200 in an active campaign, that began before the iPhone $200 price point was announced. Customer deception is pretty cut and dry here. To say otherwise is to ignore the basic facts. I will grant that Microsoft's response was very good spin (though, maybe not in the face of the recently released numbers).

~ CB
 
LagunaSol said:
Uh oh, someone let the Blu-ray guy out again.
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This "blu-ray guy" is the visible tip of a very angry and very fed up pro content creator iceberg. Most of the others have given up on Apple and quit griping and the other half have left the platform. I'm looking at HP workstations myself, and I buy top of the line every three years fully maxxed out.

If Apple thinks the numbers of iCrap iNewbies coming to the platform can make up for the highend who spend the most money (they need at least 1,000 to 1) then good luck outwaiting the Blu-Ray iceberg to the unsinkable Titanic.

:apple:
 
xbjllb said:
This "blu-ray guy" is the visible tip of a very angry and very fed up pro content creator iceberg. Most of the others have given up on Apple and quit griping and the other half have left the platform. I'm looking at HP workstations myself, and I buy top of the line every three years fully maxxed out.

If Apple thinks the numbers of iCrap iNewbies coming to the platform can make up for the highend who spend the most money (they need at least 1,000 to 1) then good luck outwaiting the Blu-Ray iceberg to the unsinkable Titanic.

:apple:
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Nothing stopping you from purchasing an external bluray drive, a copy of toast + BD Plugin and some media tools from Apple. You choose not to because it would kill your irrational Apple hating diatribes. Perish thought of one less post on Macrumors.
 
xbjllb said:
If Apple thinks the numbers of iCrap iNewbies coming to the platform can make up for the highend who spend the most money (they need at least 1,000 to 1) then good luck outwaiting the Blu-Ray iceberg to the unsinkable Titanic.
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So what you're saying is Apple makes as much money on a single fully-loaded Mac Pro (including pro-level software) as they do selling 1,000 MacBooks? Really?

Wow, these Mac Pros must be way more expensive than I thought they were. :rolleyes:

I'm not arguing that Apple shouldn't support Blu-ray. Frankly, I'm ambivalent about it, but I think they should offer as much choice as possible.

That said, the lack of Blu-ray in Macs is hardly the death sentence for Apple that you claim it to be. And your constant repeating of this diatribe is starting to get a bit silly. You seem to be one of the very few on the board vocal about Blu-ray support, which doesn't seem to indicate a strong market demand. Regardless of what Microsoft's laptop ads say.
 
xbjllb said:
This "blu-ray guy" is the visible tip of a very angry and very fed up pro content creator iceberg. Most of the others have given up on Apple and quit griping and the other half have left the platform. I'm looking at HP workstations myself, and I buy top of the line every three years fully maxxed out.
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Not a deal breaker, and not by a long shot. I know several more pro users and editing houses in the media industry who have given up on Windows and have switched to Macs. Besides, with the advent of FCS 7s BD rendering, export and burning capabilities, the likelihood of seeing system wide BD integration in the very near future is actually quite promising.
 
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