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Which ad made you switch?
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This one got me.
Introducing the Power Mac G5. The worlds fastest - most powerful - personal computer...
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Introducing the Power Mac G5. The worlds fastest - most powerful - personal computer...
The power of parental/school influence is what made me "start" with Apple. But if there ever were an ad that would have made me switch, it'd have been:
Of course there is now some irony here with Mac OS X, but that's another matter.
Of course there is now some irony here with Mac OS X, but that's another matter.
The ad that made me start using Macs wasn't an Apple ad at all. Back in 1989 when I was a physics major, I came across an ad for this amazing software called Theorist in a Physics Today magazine. I had never seen anything like it before and it only ran on Macintoshes.
Well, that was all it took to get me hooked.
This is a 1990 version of the ad from a MacWeek magazine...
And this is what it looks like running on my PowerBook Duo 2300c...
Well, that was all it took to get me hooked.
This is a 1990 version of the ad from a MacWeek magazine...
And this is what it looks like running on my PowerBook Duo 2300c...
No specific ad per se more of the actual products in use by people. I would've switched earlier when the Titanium PowerBooks were released but they were TOO expensive for me at the time so i waited till things became somewhat reasonable
I saw the 12" PowerBooks at a store and in use at a cafe and i just thought "I HAVE TO get that". Both hardware and software were so pretty and the price was within my reach if i jumped high enough.
So i did and it was my first mac 12" PB 1.33GHz G4. I still regret selling it to date. Urgh.
I saw the 12" PowerBooks at a store and in use at a cafe and i just thought "I HAVE TO get that". Both hardware and software were so pretty and the price was within my reach if i jumped high enough.
So i did and it was my first mac 12" PB 1.33GHz G4. I still regret selling it to date. Urgh.
I got my first computer in 1994, a //e. I had this for 5 years and then we switched to Windows (Gateway), software was easier to find for me and it was cheaper than the Mac. This was the Family's computer, so in 2002 I got myself a laptop, again software influenced it so I got a Gateway. In 2004 I had a Pc custom built. Again Windows. Finally in 2006 I started back towards a Mac. I got a Macbook. Then in October when the custom built PC died, I got a iMac. I really don't see me buying anything for a while but I am fairly certain it will be Mac. I really like how it just keeps working and coming back for more! 
It wasn't a single ad as much as it was a product line. It was right when the first iBook came out (and your only options were blue or orange). I was pretty big into PCs (I knew a lot of Windows programming and whatnot) and I wanted to broaden my horizons. In addition, I wanted a notebook since I had never had one before. There was the iBook, and I had to have it.
I didnt need an ad to switch...
Vista did the job
Thank you Microsoft for making me switch...I'm using the MBP for the past 5 months and this is the longest time without a system crash and i never had to restart the OS...life is much easier now...
Vista did the job
Thank you Microsoft for making me switch...I'm using the MBP for the past 5 months and this is the longest time without a system crash and i never had to restart the OS...life is much easier now...
Hey, read about that "Welcome, IBM" ad in iWoz, cool to see it! The first computer I got was a very old Windows 95 PC (it was even old then!) so after I got my iBook, its all I needed! Macs FTW!
Do adverts really influence people THAT much? I find it hard to believe that an advert, how ever well produced, would make one switch to a new computing platform, which is a pretty big decision. I suppose they must or Apple wouldn't spend so much on marketing.
The radical design (at the time) of the original iMac blew me away and persuaded me to switch from the beige Win 95 hell I was in. I do have a soft spot for the Jeff Goldblum iMac ads of the period, I only really noticed them after I bought the computer though.
The radical design (at the time) of the original iMac blew me away and persuaded me to switch from the beige Win 95 hell I was in. I do have a soft spot for the Jeff Goldblum iMac ads of the period, I only really noticed them after I bought the computer though.
Well, I wouldn't say that I made a platform switch, but I did go from being rather indifferent about computers in general to loving Macs once I saw what could be done on them without having to learn a programing language (and yes, learning Mathematica was considered learning a programing language back then).