Which ad made you switch?

[Paix247]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvbuwfawqcc

For me, it was the Mini Me Yao Ming ad. My first mac was the 12" Powerbook Rev. A 867MHz.

 

[FJ218700]

No ads for me, I'm Mac by default.

Apple kept sending Macs to my father to use/demo (Education technology field) from 1984 through 1989. He would give me his old one when the new models were sent. Got my first Mac when I was 5 or 6 and haven't looked back.

 

[ClassicMac247]

Thats it? Can we close this thread?, only 24 people switched because of an ad, and half really did it because of word of mouth! Boy, apple shouldn't bother with their ad campaigns then.

 

[bc008]

looks like i came into the mix a bit late 🙂

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ajUgNtrRMTE

the idea of an all in one was so fascinating to me, although i ended up getting a macbook as my first

 

[Gibson88]

The whole Intel change done it for me. 🙂

 

[CalBoy]

This ad from way back.

Even though I was young then, I began to see Apple as a very innovative company that was clearly ahead of the curve.

Plus it helped that we had them in school. 😛

Hence why when I had money of my own, I bought myself a Mac. 🙂

 

[DZ/015]

It wasn't an ad. My high school was using the Apple II+ platform. They were everywhere. It was what I learned to program on. Switched over to Macintosh when the Apple II platform was killed off. Never looked back.

Still have a loaded Apple IIgs that I fire up on occasion. The original Castle Wolfenstein can't be beat.

 

[LizKat]

Thats it? Can we close this thread?, only 24 people switched because of an ad, and half really did it because of word of mouth! Boy, apple shouldn't bother with their ad campaigns then.

Yikes, but think of the backlash.

The ads are like the stickers. Part of the thing.

Talk about offending the customer base. We must have ze ads!

But to read through posts elsewhere in MR after Macworld, some fans would settle for punching the whole ad budget into R&D for how to get an ethernet port squashed into MacBook Air 😉

 

[nslyax]

It wasn't this exact ad, but its from the same year. Even the same Performa 6200 I think.

Performa Ad

 

[CRAZYBUBBA]

My parents bought the performa before i was really aware of all this but if there was an ad it would be This i've always thought she was super cute.

 

[midget]

I think I used them in elementary school(bad memory lol) but I do know I was introduced in my Graphic Design class in high school, but no ad ever made me switch I switched due to poor experience I got from PCs and the fact I could finally get a student discount(college), but I finally converted in 2005 with my still running great iBook G4. Now trying to save up to upgrade, I have also converted PC friends, one of which decided to convert after watching the '07 keynote 😛

 

[bobr1952]

I can say the recent ads have influenced me somewhat--all of the "Get a Mac" ads. Not necessarily because they had anything to say that would make me or anyone else switch--but because they got me thinking of Macs. Then there were some recommendations for those in the IT world who switched--even if that meant using PCs at work. Finally, I've done some web work on a dedicated Linux box--and just the fact that Linux is the bedrock of OSX shouts stability to me. So all together that equals--my new iMac is on the way!

 

[Zwhaler]

The iPod ad with the song "Jerk It Out" back in 2005 switch me to the iPod... and after repeated trips to the Apple store to see the new iPods I eventually realized that Macs own and switched in October 2006 🙂

 

[velocityg4]

What first sparked my interest was my when I was around 11 my buddies father had a IIgs with lots of games and GS OS 6. From there it would have been reading articles in MacWorld magazine and sales ads of a Mac dealer in Santa Monica. I would just drool over the Quadra 660AV and 840AV with the 14inch AV screen.

Ultimately it was not an ad that made me switch but my friend having all of those IIgs games. So I sold my dad my PC I had bought three months previously and went and got a IIvx: 68030 33mhz, 5MB RAM, 80MB HD, 2x CD.

This is when I crushingly found out I could not play the IIgs games🙁😡. Since an Apple is not a Macintosh. However I did find System 7.1 to be much nicer then DOS 6 and Windows 3.1 though I missed the 5.25 inch floppy.

 

[madmax_2069]

for me it didn't take a ad to make me switch, i was tired of the same old windows BS you have to deal with. when i was given 2 Beige G3 AIO's for free that is when i jumped ship. but i was always interested in Macs before i did jump ship. i always like the look of them. i like how they made you feel when you used them

 

[zea mays]

Not a switcher. Pretty much used Apples in some form from day 1 of computers for me. We did briefly have a PC when we were first married 'cause it was cheap and we were dirt poor. The iMac G5 brought me back. In fact, I'm still typing on it today 🙂

 

[ClassicMac247]

I was just watching Pirates Of Silicon valley and I realized just how far ahead apples advertising campaigns are, they set the tone for almost every other company, it's funny how now apples is the originator, not the imitator.

 

[w_parietti22]

Probably the hilarious iMac G4 ad.

 

[mark10197]

Didn't need an add. My dad had macs before I was born. My first mac was one of those motorola 600 chips. I started using a pc at school and I hated it! so i use macs all the time. That and almost every movie I've movie seen that had a computer it was always was a mac.

 

[dmr727]

It really wasn't up to me - my Dad bought an original Macintosh when I was six. I've been hooked ever since. 🙂

 

[TomsMacBook]

It was actually when my brother got an iMac G5. I had a quick go, and I've liked em' since.

 

[coupdetat]

I always liked how simple the school computers running OS9 were in comparison to our home Win98 computer. I would say that ClarisWorks is what really drove home the point that Macs are easy to use, because everything in that program seemed so logical. The Paint program was especially good! HyperStudio was another example of a really, really easy-to-use program that could produce great results. Always wished my Windows PC at home could do the same things so easily.

What made me REALLY want a Mac was the first time I saw an iPod (the original 5GB), the iMac G4, and my school's white iBook G3's. I remember wondering how the hell our laptops were getting internet when there was no wires connected! Ads are no substitute for holding one in your hand! I always thought the "Switch" ads were too self-consciously whimsical and annoying with that tinkly background music.

 

[Xavier]

None of the ads made me switch. That is because I never owned a PC in my life, everything has been mac

 

[PowerFullMac]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvbuwfawqcc

For me, it was the Mini Me Yao Ming ad. My first mac was the 12" Powerbook Rev. A 867MHz.

Liked that one! And I just learnt that the PowerBook was the first 17'' laptop! Cool!

 

[soberbrain]

It was the hour and a half long infomercial called WWDC 2003 where Steve Jobs demoed Expose 😉

I picked up the 15" PowerBook G4 when it came out a few months later.