New Microsoft Ad Says Macs are Cool With Kids
Microsoft’s back with episode 3 of the Laptop Hunters, where real-life similes shop for their ideal laptop, only to arrive at a PC.
Apple’s "I’m a Mac" commercials were always somewhat controversial, and eventually they even became some what obnoxious. Now it’s payback time.
Microsoft’s released the third TV spot of its Laptop Hunters, where mother and son pursue Best Buy for their ideal computer: something that has speed, a big hard drive, and it must be a good gaming computer – for under $1,500.
It wouldn't be a Laptop Hunters without throwing some Apples into the mix. The camera follows the two shoppers to the Apple section, as the mother says, "Let’s take a look at the Macs. They are quite popular with his age," while pointing at her son.
Upon arriving at the Mac table, the mother exclaims, "Whoa, these are way more money, dude!"
The son replies, "it’s a little too small," while touching a MacBook White.
Mom then concedes what was acknowledged in the previous commercial. "They are pretty," she said.
The 11-year old boy then speaks the words giving the commercial its purpose: "Maybe we’d rather go with PC."
Eventually the mother and son find a Sony Vaio, to which the pair expresses glee at the inclusion of Blu-ray -- something definitely not available on Macs as Steve Jobs feels that the format is currently a quantity of hurt packaged in bags.
Check out the full minute-long commercial on YouTube.
In case you missed the equally entertaining commercials from before, find them at the links below:
I already know why PC's are superior, now I just want to be entertained.
There's one easy caught mispelling.
Not to mention the article title blows.
Dont think that misspelling is gonna kill anyone, but i can say the title is bull crap considering that was never said. "they are kinda popular with this age".
For $1500 you can easily configure an FW that is significantly dominate over the 17" Macbook. I'm not sure such a price disparity exists on the 13.3" level... certainly Sony has nothing at the price that can compete with the 13" Macbook that I'm aware of, but the 17" is simply abused by the FW series.
I just wish they would change the background music; I am starting to get very tired of it :\
The ad was funny and true, but as others have said, I liked the Bill and Jerry show better
The article title was not my doing, but I can defend my apparent "mispelling" (which, ironically, is correctly spelled misspelling).
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No, not really. But it's Friday, so why not.
Thanks for reading, guys.
Funny how all those netbooks selling with Windows don't seem to strike Microsoft as 'a little too small.'
Eventually the mother and son find a Sony Vaio, to which the pair expresses glee at the inclusion of Blu-ray -- something definitely not available on Macs...
Ah, yes, Blu-ray...if money's an issue for this family, bet they're gonna love the cost of blank discs! Or maybe they watch their movies on that little notebook screen.
Frankly, considering how ignorant these people were painted to be when they got to the store, how little research they seem to've done before walking into the store, are we supposed to be impressed or moved by their buying decision?
An interesting point of these Microsoft commercials is that the 'customers' (yeah, right) don't seem to've actually used both operating systems and formed an independent opinion. The commercials are largely misleading without that factored in (especially since Macs can run Windows, and PCs can't run Mac OS for the most part). The difference between Mac & PC is heavily impacted by the OS difference; you'd think Microsoft would know that, seeing as how they're mainly a software/OS & related app.s company.
Gee, maybe they do. Maybe that's why they're focusing on the hardware made by HP and Sony.
Richard.
This is the kind of crap that shouldn't even be on this site. Talk about a waste of a persons time writing or dare I say "Reserching" this topic.
Wow. Talk about trolling and fail fanboy. For noticing that the OS is a key difference but then failing to realize that either OS runs on x86 instruction sets (That would be all AMD and Intel cpus). PC's don't run Mac OS because it's ILLEGAL. A hackintosh itself is easy to set up for the computer literate. On the other hand, Microsoft has no qualms with a Mac user installing a Windows OS.
There's nothing wrong with Microsoft advertising for PC's (regardless of brand). Apple is a company built on marketing, and will probably release a slew of new ads in response.
tomm09 04/10/2009 11:55 PM
My little sister who just went to college bought a macbook, she is not expert on computers. I told her it is piece junk, should have gone with PC. But she didn't care, she wanted the cool looking.
Ok the pro-books are not junk... Have you used a new one.. I bet not.