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Qualcomm Enlists 'I'm a Mac' Ad Star for Snapdragon PC Skit
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In the immortal words of Dave Chappelle, "I don't even know why people listen to me. I'll say anything. I've done commercials for Coke and Pepsi. I don't give a f*ck what comes out of my mouth. Whatever it takes, that's what i'm saying. Ya wanna know the truth? Can't taste the difference. All I know is Pepsi paid me more so.... it takes better. It's pretty much how the game goes!"
Those commercials were great mostly due to John Hodgman’s antics anyway.
All that commercial showed is someone who doesn't know how to manage their notification settings.
And no AI please.
After hearing him putting AI in every sentence, I stopped watching his speech.
Going to 64-bit CPUs added overhead.
At a time when there was no cell phone with more than a gigabyte of RAM and Apple had no intention of putting more than 4GB RAM on a phone for half a decade, a 64-bit CPU was exactly the marketing gimmick Qualcomm said it was.
It’s weird that companies are still doing parodies of Apple’s ads from decades ago. Just goes to show how great Apple was at advertising. One thing I definitely think has gone downhill at Apple since Steve died is the ads. Most are still quite good (I love the iPhone X one) but we haven’t got anything iconic like 1984, The Crazy Ones, Get a Mac, etc. Kinda sad. Still, I’m excited for these PCs. They look to be quite good and Microsoft is really showing Apple what the default amount of RAM and storage should be in a premium laptop.
The ad isn’t really cringy anyway. Unlike what Intel put out.
The ad isn’t really cringy anyway. Unlike what Intel put out.
No, 64-Bit was used for the secure enclave. Groundbreaking at the time, and it took years for anyone else to truly catch up.
So he's on a Mac, but then looking for a SnapDragon PC?
Because...of battery life? Annoying messages? All of which are a problem on the Mac? Which Mac? Who is having this problem?
This actor was used to convert PC users to the Mac (very effectively, I might add). The only reason to use the same actor is to try to reverse this...but who is the SnapDragon chip targeting? Mac users?
No, Wintel users.
Or do they think people will convert to Windows, despite not having the stated problem on their Macs (when many PC users do have that actual problem on their Intel PCs).
These marketing people are being lazy and stupid. This reminds me of the ad for Quiznos subs where the someone throws out a half-eaten sub and someone else picks it up out of the trash because Quiznos subs are so good.
1. If the sub is so good, why did someone throw it away?
2. You are associated your product with disgusting public trash cans.
Ugh...
Because...of battery life? Annoying messages? All of which are a problem on the Mac? Which Mac? Who is having this problem?
This actor was used to convert PC users to the Mac (very effectively, I might add). The only reason to use the same actor is to try to reverse this...but who is the SnapDragon chip targeting? Mac users?
No, Wintel users.
Or do they think people will convert to Windows, despite not having the stated problem on their Macs (when many PC users do have that actual problem on their Intel PCs).
These marketing people are being lazy and stupid. This reminds me of the ad for Quiznos subs where the someone throws out a half-eaten sub and someone else picks it up out of the trash because Quiznos subs are so good.
1. If the sub is so good, why did someone throw it away?
2. You are associated your product with disgusting public trash cans.
Ugh...
Thanks. Why MR would post a1 hr 20 min video of an entire presentation in an article that is about an ad is beyond me.
Yes. But...is Qualcomm really the new refuge for people who don't like what Apple's doing with the Mac? Still gotta deal with Windows on Arm.
1. Why was the comparison to a mac book air? How about an M2 or M3? 2. My main complaints about macOS machines are price for upgrades in memory/SSD and external monitor glitches. I won’t buy a mac book because my son’s M1 MBP seems to have problems waking up sometimes and connecting to a monitor. And my 2018 mac mini has little glitches where I lose the monitor after first use for the day within an hour of so of use. Just weird stuff. That said, I use a PC at work and Windows 10 sucks. I can’t wait until our county IT department is forced to go to Windows 11 where there are tabbed explorer folders. They won’t allow anyone to install extensions and they don’t have any extra stuff on computers.
That has NOTHING to do with the CPU being 64-bit. It's a separate processor that just happens to be on the same chip.
And of course, the Apple Event video launching the first M1 Macs closed with John Hodgman reprising his role as the PC Guy from the "Get a Mac" commercials, desperately stating he can be just as fast. Though given John's a Mac fan and co-wrote most of those commercials, it's not too surprising he returned for that and not Justin Long as the Mac Guy.
Of course I've also made quite a few parodies of those "Get a Mac" commercials using GoAnimate/Wrapper, often pointing out how PCs are also popular for gaming, and the different kinds of people that would use a certain computer. They're a lot more fun than those inane "grounded" videos made using the same platform.
You are so wrong to only see the memory limit, and this was the same mistake Qualcomm did. But it was the instruction set, moving to arm v8 gave them access to an improved instruction set, which made the 64 bit cpu a big improvement.
Bootcamp is not available as MSFT has an exclusivity contract with Qualcomm. When that contract becomes free then mac users can buy windows for arm.
Correct, AArch64 on ARM was a much different ballgame than the move from x86 to AMD64. ARM’s 32 bit instruction sets had a *ton* of legacy cruft that Apple (and other high end chipmakers) were only too happy to jettison