Microsoft's Laptop Hunters Returns, $700 PC Wins
Young family discovers that $700 will buy you a PC, but not a MacBook.
It's been a while since we've seen a Laptop Hunters commercial, the commercial series from Microsoft that pushes the PC more than any of its software products.
The series is back, however, with Matt and Olivia hoping to find the perfect laptop for sharing pictures of their son Jayden with friends and family. Their requirements are that the laptop must have a large screen with great battery life and must cost no more than $700. As with all the other Laptop Hunters commercials, the Microsoft narrator says, "You find it, you keep it."
Off the young family went through the aisles of what is surely Best Buy, looking at all their various options. Olivia commented on liking the pink laptop as well as suggested that the diminutive netbook was perfect for her baby Jayden.
Of course, no Laptop Hunters episode is complete without a poke at the Apple camp. The family stopped to look at the white polycarbonate MacBook that's priced at $999. The immediate complaints were that it was too small and about its price. Of course, with a starting limit of $700, a MacBook was already off the list to start with regardless of specifications.
In the end, Matt and Olivia decided on the HP dv7, just as Lauren did in the very first Laptop Hunters commercial. Check it out below!

it's kind of hard to share photos through iPhoto when barely anybody uses a mac
... it could go something like "young metro-sexual try-hard who doesn't mind being ripped of finds mac for $3000"
it's kind of hard to share photos through iPhoto when barely anybody uses a mac
Your argument to completely invalid.
So much so, that I'm not even going to bother explaining why...
... it could go something like "young metro-sexual try-hard who doesn't mind being ripped of finds mac for $3000"
Wow really? I'm glad we are modern thinking here... /s
Anyway, if you think HP is bad then you should loiter at an Apple store...
"Hello my macbook wont boot and it is under warranty."
"It has been modified and the warranty is void, notice the ripped tape"
"But I had an Apple technician upgrade the RAM at this store a few months back."
"Ah, that's your problem. After an upgrade you must purchase the warranty again, sorry."
Note that it costs $80 an hour to do modifications at this store, and he told me the tech charged him for 1 and a half hours to upgrade RAM. This is one of the reasons I hate everything Apple and so does he. He now exclusively buys PCs and is much happier with them after I showed him how you can turn Windows into the OS you want with a little bit of time. I've built 2 great PCs for him that out perform any form of computer he ever had and he paid less for either of them than any other computer before.
Lol, you think that's modern thinking? It's not universal thinking that's for sure.
Microsoft desperately needed a token black guy to prevent any racial rumor mills
What I meant was that it was old style thinking, not modern progressive. That's why it was sarcasm. /s = sarcasm.
Anyone who can't do a ram upgrade themselves (really? It's dead simple) and get's suckered into paying $80 an hour deserves to lose their hard earned cash. (probably a fake story. No one charges $80 an hour and takes 90 min to do a ram upgrade. Takes 20 min at most) Now stop claiming your an expert and actually try to do something beneficial for the community. Learn some code, develop an actual product, for god's sake stop saying I've built this or that because all it takes too put together a half-decent system is the ability to read badly translated instruction manuals.
Also, no the ilife suite is not fantastic, but it's not a horrorfest either. It works for the average consumer. Done
Also, why an HP again? Hell, why not just do a vid of a family at home shopping at newegg? Maybe make a "desktop hunter" episode? They'd be able to rag on apple so much more knowing that the mac mini is aterrible buy.
-typed on my beloved last generation macbook pro running W 7100. Because I can.
Anyways I'm getting sick of these commercials. While they do make a good point I am getting annoyed that they are basically the same thing over and over just with different actors. I truly don't understand the whole "you find it you keep it" part as its obvious they are paid actors and not randomly selected people.
I'm pretty sure most of us would be able to build a system that would trounce an Apple for the price (I'm talking desktops here).