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Microsoft Releases Second 'Laptop Hunters' Commercial
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That was filmed in Orange County, Ca... the Apple store in South Coast Plaza (Crystal Court), Best Buy near South Coast, and Fry's Electronics in Fountain Valley. I have even been helped by the guy at Fry's who helped him. Luckily I didn't come to the same conclusion.
Free will is a quality of humans. If everyone thought the same, acted the same, the world would be a boring place and we'd have nothing to discuss on here.
Hence why I can never understand these types of comments. Diversity makes the world go round.
You're woefully uninformed. Flash is not a standard, the Mac Pro costs less than comparative Dell boxes. You lose.
Yes, but intelligence shuts people up. If people were more INTELLIGENT in general, it would be fine if we had less to discuss.
I just saw the new UK iPhone "There's an app for that" advert, with the apple logo at the end. Makes Apple products look versatile and useful. The latest MS advert just makes me feel sorry for the guy, unless of course he can hack that laptop 
This is the point all the Mac fans are missing and are really in denial about, Microsoft is praying on the gapping hole in the Apple line up and until Apple fills the void you can look for this type of ad to continue well into the future.
While some folks might call netbooks junk some folks love them and not everyone can afford a $1000 laptop just to surf the web and check their facebook account.
Its all about having a line up for the poorest John Doe in town and not just the elite creative professionals and that is clearly the intent of these ads. You can call the Windows OS junk and laugh all you want like it or not it is the only platform that the average working John Doe on budget can afford and truth be told its really all you need.
Yes the Apple OS is a wonderful tool for the creative professional but just how many folks are really rushing home at night and using FCP? the average user is surfing the net checking email and using the popular social networking sites like facebook etc. in which case you don't have to spend thousands of dollars for a machine or OS.
OH MY GOSH! That's the Frys in Fountain Valley!!!! ROFL! No doubt. This guy is a noob! I think it's time for Apple to fight back!
You might want to hesitate calling people stupid. Insults are bad form
Gibson and Fender, last I checked, are made in america. Some fender guitars are made in mexico, but the american series are made in america. They own the brands epiphone and squier that are made in japan.
I'm going to have to agree. When people ask me for recommendations on a laptop (which is more often than I'd like), I rarely recommend a Macbook because each user has different needs and different budgets. For people that want a basic computer for a few hundred bucks, Apple really can't compete. Of course, Apple really isn't competing against cheap but their product line is still limited in comparison.
Sir, this is the point which you are missing... Apple don't produce junk. They keep things to a minimal, they are known pretty well for their 'simplicity'.
Which they are certainly entitled to do. There is absolutely nothing wrong with marketing products to a consumer sector that has less disposable income; those consumers need products just like every other demographic and they deserve to have those products.
However, this doesn't mean that Apple needs to go after that sector. Apple markets itself as a premium brand and doesn't feel the need to introduce a lower cost option in order to capture the lower income demographics. Apple produces a product at a specific cost which, if you factor in growing market share and stock price, works very well in the current market.
I look at these ads and my reaction is, "Of course. If you are selective about what qualities you are looking for from your machine, there will be times that the PC is the clear choice over the Mac, just as cloths from Old Navy will be the clear choice over cloths from AX if you limit yourself to certain criteria."
It doesn't mean that AX or Apple need to lower their prices, though; it just means that some people will choose to go with a different product because they place a higher value on certain factors.
This is totally contrary to my experience. On my Quicksilver G4, I added RAM, replaced the hard drive, replaced the CD drive with a DVD writer, exchanged two fans, and added a printer and a new monitor, and a USB card, and none of these were made by Apple. On my MacBook, there is RAM, hard drive, new battery, new charger, and none were bought from Apple (although the battery and the charger look suspiciously like the plant that builds them for Apple has done an extra shift
). So I don't quite understand where you get this from.
And here's the point every MS shill and/or troll doesn't understand. Mac fans know about and understand fully the gapping hole in the Apple line-up, hence why they are always saying things like : "Stop comparing apples to oranges, that's not what the Apple XXXXXXXX competes against".
All Gibson's are American made. Fender's can be American, Mexican, Japanese or Korean.
I don't understand how you can say Mac's are not about power when the industry standard pretty much uses intel architecture... and Mac's have the ability to run windows... these commercials are nothing but invalid arguments and stabs at apple...
Eh, if you read some of the responses in the first commercial thread, I'd say a lot of people are delusional and out of touch with reality. Apple and Windows fans alike. I wonder if we'll get some gems in this thread.
*shakes magic 8 ball*
"All signs point to yes."
I am a consumer ain't I?
I could care less what the majority says/thinks. I use what gets the job done best for me and not how hyped a product is.
It's that huge hardware base that helps to make Windows the unstable mess that it is. Apple, Sun, and other companies that value stability, reliability, and user experience specifically choose to limit the hardware base so that they can thoroughly test the drivers and OS while making sure that the speed and stability meet user needs. It's all of the unforeseen, and untestable, combination of hardware and drivers that adds to the instability of Windows. My Mac Pro has an Nvidia 8800GT. If I want something faster, Apple offers the ATI Radeon 4870. If I want something cheaper, Apple offers that, too. I don't need to have a selection of 10,000 video cards.
wait. So those contracts that said at&t weren't from AT&T at the apple store and apple doesn't get $20.00 per month per user as states inthe Apple/AT&T licensing agreement?
Oh sure they do. Don't let the rainbows blur your vision LOL.
Wait, you're saying Apple fans saying you can't compare that 699$ 17" HP to a MBP 17" are delusional ?
Ok...
Us creatives need the tech and if you don't need so much, you get a MB. But if all you want to do is surf the web and check your facebook account, get an iphone. There's no point in owning any computer with more computing power than the current iphone if that's the only purpose for it. In any event, the tablet will soon be here.
I think that will fill that gap nicely, but once again, will probably be geared towards those of us who would like to do some serious computing.
No, in fact, Apple does not get a portion of the iPhone 3G monthly bill, thanks for asking.