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New PowerBook or fraudulent ad...you tell me!
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hmmmm that looks nothing like any mac from anywhere i have seen. At first i thought it was just a PC notebook. but (as you said) the caption to the left of the picture says its a powerbook...typo? hint?settledown said:
from that angle it doesnt look attractive.
that is pretty weird looking. especially the screen which doesn't look tall enough to cover the whole palmrest area....
I am not exactly sure but, I think I see an one click button on it. But, I am not sure. It does look like a new pbook because as of late no PC company has made a 1" thick enclosure without cutting somethibng out. We just need to see if it has a optical drive to see if it is a pbook(G5?). I think it is a PC laptop though.
Well, this is from the APC site:
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=ENS-USB
(click in the More Images link)
It surely looks like a Toshiba POS...
My two cents...
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=ENS-USB
(click in the More Images link)
It surely looks like a Toshiba POS...
My two cents...
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settledown said:
They're not selling the powerbook, they are selling the stand. So not sure why you would think its fraud.
lalcan said:
BINGO, that is it!!
I used the word fraud, because this catalog is Apple specific. Only Apple products and products for Macs. APC should have taken a pic of a REAL PowerBook to use in an Apple catalog. It isn't a crime, although Apple may not like APC calling that POS a PowerBook.
Mostly it was a fun thing to pass away a Thursday.
What both puzzles and amuses me is that in many adverts (e.g. AOL broadband or the like), you get someone using a laptop which is an iBook or PowerBook (usually Ti). However, when you see the screen, there is a shot of Windows XP - even though you can still see the Mac laptop its being displayed on. Obviously they've just shoved a different picture and superimposed it on but it seems like a lot of trouble. I suppose the answer is that Macs are cool-looking (good product placement) while Windows is more familiar to the masses.
Sometimes though you get it the other way around: PC laptop with Mac OS 9 shots of IE!!!!!
Sometimes though you get it the other way around: PC laptop with Mac OS 9 shots of IE!!!!!
I think the best was the M$ ad with the powerbook in it... classic mess up.
The blue vga plug was a give away though....
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The blue vga plug was a give away though....
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anyone see the commercial for the airforce, where a cop pulls up on a young man on the sidewalk, and the cop says, "Son, the computer(clearly a PC) is froze again, I need you to do that thing to it again"
The son tell him to reboot in windows safe mode, and you hear the classic Apple startup chime.
Just another example of advertising not always being "what you see is what you get"
The son tell him to reboot in windows safe mode, and you hear the classic Apple startup chime.
Just another example of advertising not always being "what you see is what you get"
