New Mac Ads

I hope it wasn't some white-background wtith a person talking how great macs are with goofy music in the background. Actually SHOW some of OS X!

 

The timing isn't the greatest -- the "Mac Virus" story is currently #1 on Yahoo news' "most popular" list.

But the ad. It was knock out. Especially the crashing bit.

And I think the "14,000 peecee viruses (viri?)" still stacks up pretty poorly against a suspect "1" for OS X.

Where are the techies to tell me I've miscounted my OS X viri? Viruses?

 

Probably not. (Yet Amazon's screwup comes to mind...)

 

I saw it on CBS just before King of Queens started at 8:00 PM Eastern.

Nice commercial!

 

Just saw it on the Discovery channel. Pretty funny

 

And I thought an Apple exec (Schiller, perhaps) stated on the record a little while ago that Apple wouldn't produce such ads because they didn't want to appear overconfident about Mac OS X's security or encourage virus writers to give it their best shot. Guess this is their way of saying "BRING IT!"

 

I'm watching fox - muting while S.W.A.T. is on and turning the sound on when it's commercials.

I don't have anything against S.W.A.T., but I just don't watch TV... ever.

 

Thanks.

Had no idea I was engaging in Leet-speak. I guess we're not the "some internet communities" referred to in the article!

 

Considering this commercial has only been out a matter of hours it seems to be on a wide variety of channels. (That's a good thing).

 

I was thinking about that. But, I figure that a reseller mistake like that isn't going to get that much attention - I mean how many people really would have noticed (outside of the MR type folk)? But, airing the ad on national TV could throw off Apple. Although, from what I can tell in the descriptions given here, nothing new was shown (a la MB). So, if the ad was aired mistakenly, and it airs again at the proper time, then there is no harm. Plus, these multiple airings can't all be mistakes...So, I guess I can stop talking about this.

In the mean time, what's taking people so long in getting it posted or hosted

 

Ya, once I saw it happening on multiple channels I realized it wasn't a mistake.

I just hope this is related to the release of the MacBook in some way.

 

On the phone with my friend and he just saw it on CBS. Hurry up and get the thing uploaded!

 

Just saw a 2nd commercial, with the PC guy bragging about how iTunes works with Windows, and the Mac guy suggesting he try out the rest of iLife. PC guy says he has cool apps, too, like Calculator.
Funny. Less controversial than the virus bit. I hope they have a series of 4 or 5 of these.

 

It was only a matter of time before Apple used this in their advertising...

 

gosh I need water but im watching 24 and dont want to miss the comercials!

 

Just go during the show, in this case it is much less important.

 

man... they sound funny... i wanna see them! post them online!

 

F***ING hilarious! how many are there?

 

Yeah, that was kind of retarded. I'm a fan of the "Mac" from his character on the NBC show Ed, but other than that...really not that impressed. It doesn't showcase anything of substance (not that being virus free isn't anything of substance) but instead of accentuating the negative, lets look at all the COOL things the Mac can do.

 

Actually...That's exactly what these are.

 

Thanks arn... I'm d/l before it gets hammered...

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Pretty funny... want to see the other one now...

 

i hope its on prison break tonight.. that would be so awesome..

 

That was a let down.