Apple Mocks Microsoft's Laptop Hunters Series
Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s Zune Pass versus iTunes commercial, are the new Get a Mac ads, which take a swipe at Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters series as well as customer support for PCs.
Apple has released three new commercials (which are available on its website here) and the most notable is the Laptop Hunters spoof where a Lauren-a-like is looking for a laptop with a big screen and a decent processor. PC orders the slow and small PCs (played by men in similarly drab suits) to leave and it looks like “Meagan” is finally whittling the group down to something that will work for her. That is, until she says she wants something that doesn’t crash all the time, doesn’t get viruses and cause a bunch of headaches in general. Shocker, everyone leaves bar Justin Long.
The other two ads play on the fact that Apple stores have Geniuses as well as the fact that PC’s get more viruses. Check out the ads on YouTube and let us know what you think.

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I'm on a 1500 dollar apple at school and its slower than my 750 dollar pc i have at home
Hate this P O S
Well if people would stop looking at PORN and filesharing like limewire and bear share.....and stay off myspace......
they would heve no problems.
i work at a school and believe it or not.....the three things above are the main culprits.
Plus they sweep their problems under the rug.
Trust me, a virus, software bug or power surge will take down any computer, PC or Mac.
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I'm on a 1500 dollar apple at school and its slower than my 750 dollar pc i have at home
Hate this P O S
I video edit at home on a pc that is alot cheaper,faster and in general better.
IDK, i just think apples argument is dumb
And those "geniuses" don't help much either... i took an apple laptop i use to school at the tampa international mall to get some help with this mac ( i know how to use it, i was just extremely curious about the genius bar ), he didn't know how to fix the problem and after 45 minutes redirected me to some other punk/free spirited girl who didn't know what she was doing either... so in the end i just said "hmm, let me try this" and fixed it
Thats enough of my rant.. just pointing out that the "genius bar" isn't good help, at all.
Plus they sweep their problems under the rug.
Trust me, a virus, software bug or power surge will take down any computer, PC or Mac.
Well if people would stop looking at PORN and filesharing like limewire and bear share.....and stay off myspace......
they would heve no problems.
i work at a school and believe it or not.....the three things above are the main culprits.
I cant count how much spyware I removed for friends in college because they couldnt tell the difference between MySpace and the phishing sites.
There is NO WAY Apple can claim Mac has no viruses, crashing, or headaches. Every operating system has viruses (whether they are prone to them or not), every operating system is bound to crash for some reason, and if the software sucks or you are not good with PCs - you will get headaches.
Worst Apple ad so far.
For very loose definitions of "genius", but don't let that pesky English language stop you, Apple!
Viruses on the house mac: 0
Viruses on the house pc: 0
Times I have complained to my wife about how my pc has problems doing x: maybe 10
Times my wife complained to me about how her mac has problems doing x: somewhere near 10^100
The only thing these (and all the rest of the commercials) have going for them is the talent of John Hodgman. Anyone can put on some jeans and say "well gosh isn't the sky blue" but that guy can even make Apple propaganda entertaining. Thank you, John!
Playing the bulls$##!t to the lowest denominator, does anyone else find this frustrating??
I would direct that person to the nearest library and give them a lantern in case the power goes out.
You can download virus protection for Macs. The program is called virus barrier X5. I think that they should have called it iVirus.
We have Macs and PC's at work. The last time the company had a virus was 2001. It was downloaded by someone looking for porn at work.
Funny that Apple would offer software that is not needed.
They should keep marketing to the ignorant. It's worked so far.
However, by doing that they are consistently reducing the collective IQ of the average Mac user.
As usual, I am entertained.
PC's aren't that great either but when they do get a problem, its much easier to fix than with a mac.
The "Apple Tax" is merely nothing more than a Genius Bar service charge...make it optional and macs become a great value.
The Anti Virus solutions nowadays are great. Kaspersky, ESET etc.
I've been using NOD32 for a while now, and I even stopped using Ad-Aware's Adwatch.
I haven't had the slightest bit of spyware, or a virus, in quite a long time.
So if Windows 7 retail is aesthetically pleasing (which it is), has good defense against spyware and viruses (which it will, on top of any decent Antivirus solution, which EVERYONE should have), what is the appeal of a MAC again?
Oh, probably the 200% Mark up in hardware price, and the more severely limited software library.
Mac = Liars!!!
Oh, and my mother-in-law's iMac ALWAYS crashes when using Safari. They finally downloaded Firefox. The other machine in their house has never once had a problem...it's an old Dell P4 with Windows XP.
That you are aware of...