Trooper_One

October 30, 2009 at 11:47am

Wow, right on Ace! 

Ace of Spades

October 28, 2009 at 3:16pm

The main reason Apple sells is because of the message they are trying to say to college kids and the younger kids. They secretly say, "Buy a Apple, be a cool kid since you'll have a shiny product. And its the new hip thing to do." Like most people only buy a Mac because it has a shiny case with aluminum and a shiny UI. BIG DEAL! I can get Windows XP, Vista, and of course Windows 7 and make the UI look WAY better than OS X. Shoot, my case will look better than a Macs (my case of choice: CoolerMaster Cosmo S Silver) and I'll have much more power running inside that rig than a Mac Pro and have neons.

Macs are just like exotic cars like Ferrari, Lambo, etc. While PC's are the tuners cars like a Nissan GT-R, Mazda RX-7, Toyota Supra, Suburu WRX STi, Nissan Silvia, Scion Tc, etc. Once a tuner is tuned, it'll destroy exotic cars and will be cheaper in the end too. Garage Custom is always better. Am I right, or am I right?

NeoTifa

October 27, 2009 at 8:09am

The only mac I'll contemplate buying is a Big Mac. (I'm a vegetarian).

Apolyonn

October 26, 2009 at 7:29pm

If anyone else has noticed, Chevy is doing the exact same thing.  Chevy, as we know, is on the verge of collapse.  Does anyone else find this interesting?

Apolyonn

October 26, 2009 at 7:27pm

What model is your motherboard power supply, and did you upgrade from Vista or perform a fresh ("custom") install?  7 installed fresh within 45 minutes on my Presario f761, same for my desktop.

 

EDIT: ...this was supposed to be a reply to the dude below whose PC took 3 hours to install 7.  How did it end up here? 

nekollx

October 24, 2009 at 10:21pm

 man the commercials are WEAK

their ENTIRE argument is

"since you have to reinstall everything ANYWAY go with us because of our costomer service is the bestest!"

 Seriously? That's it?

That's your defense?

Please that's pathetic.

 "hey boss what do you want to do? Buy a mac and have to buy mac versions of all our apps but get great customer service...or get Windows, gers new versions of SOME of our apps, run the most of the rest in XP Mode?" 

"Uh let me think about that....Windows" 

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Windows7Defender

October 24, 2009 at 4:53am

Okay, so the argument of reinstalling your software is a big thing for windows 7.  I have a bunch of programs, all with about an hour or more of install time.  Now Mac says just go to mac instead of installing everything again..here are some problems with that..number one, most of the programs wont work with mac, second, I would have to REINSTALL them all anyways on the mac, and it is also less organized, and half of the programs I use like Photoshop have different styles of working since they are differnt OS systmes..Now I have a bunch of friends that have macs, even the microsoft rep that comes to my work to show us how windows 7 works, has a mac, but he told us as soon as its available, wich it is now, he is installing it on his mac..so, the hell with mac, since, it is just as much a hassle, and 7 has so many cool features, like the shake, automatic 50/50 split, live internet tv (FREE), less backround noise for faster operation.  Also, the person who was talking about paying the $1200 for a new pc with 7 or a new mac that all the programs wouldnt work on..not gonna bitch ya out, but one thing about that..you could pay $1200 for a PC preloaded with 7 or less for a pretty good computer, or a nice mac w/ out 7 on it for about $2200.

My knowlege about Windows 7 comes from the microsoft rep. that visits my work, (OfficeMax), regularly to update us on the system before it is even released to the public.

Windows7Defender

October 24, 2009 at 4:53am

Okay, so the argument of reinstalling your software is a big thing for windows 7.  I have a bunch of programs, all with about an hour or more of install time.  Now Mac says just go to mac instead of installing everything again..here are some problems with that..number one, most of the programs wont work with mac, second, I would have to REINSTALL them all anyways on the mac, and it is also less organized, and half of the programs I use like Photoshop have different styles of working since they are differnt OS systmes..Now I have a bunch of friends that have macs, even the microsoft rep that comes to my work to show us how windows 7 works, has a mac, but he told us as soon as its available, wich it is now, he is installing it on his mac..so, the hell with mac, since, it is just as much a hassle, and 7 has so many cool features, like the shake, automatic 50/50 split, live internet tv (FREE), less backround noise for faster operation.  Also, the person who was talking about paying the $1200 for a new pc with 7 or a new mac that all the programs wouldnt work on..not gonna bitch ya out, but one thing about that..you could pay $1200 for a PC preloaded with 7 or less for a pretty good computer, or a nice mac w/ out 7 on it for about $2200.

My knowlege about Windows 7 comes from the microsoft rep. that visits my work, (OfficeMax), regularly to update us on the system before it is even released to the public.

nekollx

October 19, 2009 at 8:52am

"reinstalling all of their old programs, assuming they still have the CDs," 

So buys a new mac where none of them work!

personally i want to see who they use for Vista guy and Seven Guy

 

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icebird

October 19, 2009 at 7:05am

If you "just get a mac" you're still going to have to copy all your files over to it.

When was the last time Apple made a commercial highlighting the best features of their OS instead of getting a fruity celeb to PMS all over the competition?  If their product is so great, it should stand on its own.  These are getting petty and unprofessional.  Apparently, that's the type of people Apple wants to appeal to.

Xylogeist

October 19, 2009 at 6:55am

wow... this makes me laugh...

 

If apple thinks they can make a commercial dissing Windows 7..... they have another thing coming XD

 What will their argument be? :D "Windows 7 boots 4 times faster than the average Mac Pro, is far more streamlined, has Plug n' Play, and has much better software such as Office 2007! AKA our macs are probably going to be cheaper due to the lower quality... oh wait... NEVERMIND!"

 Windows 7 is 20 times the OS that any Mac will ever be, this is a fucking joke on Apple's part.

publicimage

October 18, 2009 at 8:15pm

OK, so rather than this terrible hassle of upgrading ("What do you mean I have to put a disc in the drive?!") I should buy a new computer because it's the easier thing to do? OK fine, I'll bite. So instead of buying a smokin' Core i7 Win7 PC for $1200, I should buy an iMac with a core 2 duo (how quaint!) for the same price? Um, sorry Apple, that chip is what I'm upgrading FROM, not TO.

And for everyone trying to be polite by saying "I use Macs and they're good too" ... I am a power user and have to use Macs at least twice a week for work. I find OS X to be tedious, cumbersome and unconfigurable. To the point where the lack of any sort of user and interface customization is infuriating. And that Dock is so inferior to the Start menu. I have what, maybe 250 programs installed in All Programs -- and btw Apple, they're in alphabetical order. I couldn't imagine having to use the Dock to sift through that many programs (assuming of course that 250 applications actually exist for OS X). Even the little things, like in order to resize windows you must use the resize box in the lower-right corner?! Really? It is 2009 right? Maybe under the hood OS X is lean, but I could've guessed that ... because it doesn't let me DO anything.

I just don't get it. :|

JoeDLP

October 18, 2009 at 4:11pm

i think Apple will have to stick to the old "we don't get viruses" argument.  i have a Mac and a PC and I like both equally. i like how apple forces it's customers to make sure they have hardware and software that is guaranteed to work - expensive but more stable.  then again, since i'm pretty poor, i appreciate microsoft's efforts to make sure my old crappy hardware still works with the new OS.

and lay off the snow leopard guest account glitch!  the fix takes about 2 minutes without installing a patch.  nobody liked vista until they put out sp1 and the problem with... everything. 

MyNameIsNas

October 18, 2009 at 7:09am

Apple's are trying their best to embrace the release of a 'thumbs up everywhere'(mostly) OS. And just with a commercial of 'get a mac'. Nothing much.

van_helblaze

October 17, 2009 at 10:41am

Maybe Apple should make an official patch for the data deletion bug, that currently plaugues Snow Leopard, before they judge another OS, that up to this point has shown to be the best version of Windows EVER.

roleki

October 17, 2009 at 4:35am

Unafraid to make a prediction, Mr. Schiller tells BusinessWeek, "I expect Snow Leopard will have an amazing upgrade rate -- and Windows 7 won't."

Well, when your user-base is desperate to experience any kind of install whatsoever, you'll have that.

Carbon

October 16, 2009 at 10:54pm

If Apple really had a better OS, would they need to spend most all advertizing money trying to knock MS down a peg?Negative advertizing will accomplish that.
Too bad they have 478 more pegs to go.....8)

Have some class Apple, like you try to promote with those over priced toys.

 

 

 

gymbeau2000

October 16, 2009 at 9:50pm

"Any user that reads all those steps is probably going to freak out,"
Schiller stated. "If you have to go through all that, why not just buy
a Mac?"

 Ummmm did he forget that for you to "upgrade" from a PC to a MAc because it's so difficult STILL requires you to backup and migrate all your files, not to mention having to now go out and buy mac versions of the software you already own, where needed.  That sounds more difficult to me.

webhead

October 16, 2009 at 9:20pm

I don't know whether you all just buy PCs off the shelf or what. But I tried to install Win7 on my newly built rig and not only did the install take over three hours, but it wouldn't read my netgear wireless card. I was so pissed. So Win7 pretty much proved to be garbage, mac still sucks and is insanely overpriced, but that shit just really disappointed me. I'm not so sure about this Windows 7

My Specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66Ghz

HIS IceQ 4+ Radeon 4870

4gb ddr2

Netgear WNP311

500 gb sata hdd 

mesiah

October 16, 2009 at 9:06pm

Here are a few more freebie commercial ideas for you to run MS.

1.) (preferably run this one immediately after the apple commercial when possible.) "Time it takes to upgrade from windows XP to windows 7: 3 hours. Time it takes to upgrade from windows xp to mac osx: impossible." Followed by "Cost of upgrading to windows 7: $129. Cost of a new mac: $1500. Cost of replacing all of your software that doesn't work on mac: Priceless."

2.) I would pay anything to see a commercial where the PC guy kicks the mac guys ass.

3.) A commercial that points out the need for boot camp and windows to perform certain tasks (like gaming) Followed by "Mac, it just works...... if you are running windows."

Lash

October 16, 2009 at 8:32pm

I have just upgraded a network of ten computers to windows 7,

each of the new win7 machines has a little window in the corner with the old OS running.

some of the machines were win98 some were XP, they are all running nicely as virtual machines on the new computers.

the upgrade was quite simple, but I can see how Mac users would have trouble with it. There is no simple icon that they can click on to make it all happen while they order a new latte.

Caboose

October 16, 2009 at 8:12pm

Where I work, we have a new VP of sales, and when he started, I handed him his shiny brand new Dell notebook. His first comment to me was that he was a mac user. Second was asking if our remote connect software and external access works on a mac. Nope, Windows only mac boy! Then when he had issues with access to an app, his reasoning was "Well, the computer must have sensed I'm a Mac user, and doesn't like me!".

Next time he spouts off about his love for Macs, I'll just have to bring up the bug in OSX (thats been around since 2007), the huge flaw in the mac keyboard, the one where you can get a key logger in you keyboard. Only way to get rid of it, is to get rid of the keyboard! And how about that whole thing where a Mac won't boot if the CMOS battery is dead (or whatever it's called on a Mac)

 Apple is grasping at straws right now if this is the best they can come up with. I agree with others, about a major major mac virus! Something that really reaks havoc!

 

-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-

Tony_Wilson

October 16, 2009 at 7:03pm

Apple is for people that dont know shit about computers. I'm so tired of hearing about people talk about how much they LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE their MAC! Oh, look at me and my mac book sitting heare at Starbucks, listening to my I-Pod sipping my latte, can you see that apple logo glowing on the back of my Mac book? It means I'm more intellectual than you are and I made a better buy than you, and Oh shit my I phone is ringin hold one you peasent while I answer my phone and dont be jealous of my $500 phone, Oh did I metion that I'm trying to pull of that I look smarter than you look?