Reverse Apple Product placement.

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  1. Chundles, May 22, 2006

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    I just saw the strangest thing on TV.

    There is an ad on here, late at night for one of those correspondence education centres - you know the ones, they send out all the material and you send in the assignments etc by post or email or whatnot.

    Now, we're all used to seeing either Macs or Macs with the Apple logo covered over by a sticker right?

    This ad, showed some woman using what appeared to be a Dell laptop (top hinged, 4:3 screen, UGLY etc.) with one of the Apple stickers you get with a new product stuck over the PC maker's logo on the back of the laptop screen.

    I almost spat out my drink!

    Talk about dodgy! There was no light coming from the logo, the logo itself was the size of my palm - oh, did I mention that the machine was in no way shape or form a Mac?

    You have to wonder sometimes...
     
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  2. kretzy, May 22, 2006

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    That's really funny.

    What channel was it on? I'll have to keep an eye out for it.
     
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  3. backupdrummer, May 22, 2006

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    Scary stuff.

    Late at night the Dells get dressed up and go out. But everyone at the club can tell right away that under hte makup is smoldering pile of gross.
     
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  4. Mr. Durden, May 22, 2006

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    I'm no expert, but that seems like a lawsuit just waiting to happen. Talk about defamation...:D
     
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  5. Scarlet Fever, Jul 13, 2006

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    thats scary....

    because my mum has a black toshiba laptop with a silver plastic hinged screen with an apple sticker covering the logo...

    I doubt it was her, because she is a uni teacher and a nurse, and she hasn't been in ads recently.

    Her workplace used to be all mac, then a new IT manager came, out went the Macs, in came the PCs. One day a virus hit. She was the only person still working that day :p

    She does it more as a statement, rather than to make herself look better. We already have 3 Apple laptops at home, hers being a MacBook Pro :D
     
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