Apple to Microsoft: "Stop airing those commercials"

[Eomer]

Originally Posted by Juvarisx

Welcome to the world of marketing!

Not sure if it's the right bit, my speakers are done broke at work.

[Caliane]

Originally Posted by Screamfeeder

No they don't.

I own 2 high end Mac desktops and one Power book as well as 3 high end desktops and my work HP laptop.

The only reason I have the Mac's is for Final Cut Pro and a couple other multimedia programs that are exclusive to the Mac. If they were offered on the PC, I would not own one.

I got in a huge argument with a couple ignorant friends of mine who have bought into the whole "TEH RUN DA PHOTOCHOPS FASTER" series of bullshit and even after proving them horribly, horribly wrong (ran a high end lens blur on an IMAX resolution image and the PC was about 30% faster at comparable hardware) they still refused to believe it. Their next defense was "DERE IZ NO VIRUS OR SPYWARZ ON MAC LAWL!". Yeah dipshit because no one cares. Once little trendy Mac gains enough market share you are going to have the exact same problems that PC's do. So good job spreading the word Jobs.

The ONLY reason I can see recommending any Apple computer product over a PC is if the person is an absolute lazy ass moron that doesn't want to take the 30 seconds a day it takes to maintain a piece of equipment.

The joke is, if something does go wrong, its 100X faster, cheaper and easier to fix on a PC, then trying to deal with apple product support.

The speed thing does go back and forth depending on the program and process. There is definitely no clear winner.

The only reason I would have ever considered an Apple was the Cinema displays. Which I actually got one hooked up to my PC. haha. And you can get comparable displays for PC's now, so even that is a moot point.

[Sharmai]

30 Seconds? Doesn't even take that. Windows defender + Spybot +firefox +noscript is all you need software wise.

Oh and not going to .hizmynameistacyandiwanttolickyourpeepee@@xoxoxo.c om

[Manseed]

Originally Posted by Caliane

The joke is, if something does go wrong, its 100X faster, cheaper and easier to fix on a PC, then trying to deal with apple product support.

By your logic PC is infinitely faster at running 90% of software that isn't developed for mac.

[Eyashusa]

I used my mac laptop for graduate school. Now I use it exclusively for porn.

[Sheaf]

Pretty much sounds like BS from a jealous MS employee. I just don't understand how Microsoft can spend so much money on advertising and come up with such terrible, boring commercials.

Oh and say what you want, Apple-built computers are generally much higher quality than a Dell or HP. They use better materials, take more pride in the design and craftsmanship, use higher grade CPU's and RAM (they actually test the variations in heat output rather than just take the bottom of the barrel stuff), and are on average more reliable. Yes, they are certainly overpriced, but it's nice that they aren't simply playing a price war, but stick to innovating and making quality products as well.

[jaybee]

Originally Posted by Eyashusa

I used my mac laptop for graduate school. Now I use it exclusively for porn.

Now THAT would be brilliant marketing. If you can convince the public that Mac's are the best option for watching porn, the market gap would close by the end of this year.

[brekk]

Originally Posted by Sheaf

They use better materials, take more pride in the design and craftsmanship, use higher grade CPU's and RAM (they actually test the variations in heat output rather than just take the bottom of the barrel stuff)

LOL

Do they use some magically superior plastic? There's nothing different about the CPU's they're just some Intel Model, no different then what any PC maker gets.

[Darus Grey]

I just wanna point out again that them being more expensive is partially a myth, if you frequently upgrade your computer every 2-3 years it's cheaper.

I sold my 28 month old MBP for $1030 when I only paid $1580 for it new.

Being such a closed market, they depreciate incredibly slowly, and rarely to below 25% of MSRP(like...ever...see EQmac thread for how much Emacs and shit still go for).

Custom built machines depreciate to almost nothing after a few years till about 5yrs later you might as well recycle them.

Just remember when buying things the price on the sticker is never the REAL cost...

[Haus]

Originally Posted by Sheaf

Pretty much sounds like BS from a jealous MS employee. I just don't understand how Microsoft can spend so much money on advertising and come up with such terrible, boring commercials.

Oh and say what you want, Apple-built computers are generally much higher quality than a Dell or HP. They use better materials, take more pride in the design and craftsmanship, use higher grade CPU's and RAM (they actually test the variations in heat output rather than just take the bottom of the barrel stuff), and are on average more reliable. Yes, they are certainly overpriced, but it's nice that they aren't simply playing a price war, but stick to innovating and making quality products as well.

Lemme guess, you pride yourself on the brand of bottled water you happen to pay more for as well? Not only do they not go out of their way to build better longer lasting products, they marketing strategies seem to indicate they simply want you to have to buy a new system every 2 years or so.

[Kaige]

If these commercials are working, we need to pool our resources to fund a good one explaining how giving men blowjobs helps women reduce their chances of breast cancer.

[Luthair]

Originally Posted by Screamfeeder

No they don't.

I own 2 high end Mac desktops and one Power book as well as 3 high end desktops and my work HP laptop.

The only reason I have the Mac's is for Final Cut Pro and a couple other multimedia programs that are exclusive to the Mac. If they were offered on the PC, I would not own one.

I got in a huge argument with a couple ignorant friends of mine who have bought into the whole "TEH RUN DA PHOTOCHOPS FASTER" series of bullshit and even after proving them horribly, horribly wrong (ran a high end lens blur on an IMAX resolution image and the PC was about 30% faster at comparable hardware) they still refused to believe it. Their next defense was "DERE IZ NO VIRUS OR SPYWARZ ON MAC LAWL!". Yeah dipshit because no one cares. Once little trendy Mac gains enough market share you are going to have the exact same problems that PC's do. So good job spreading the word Jobs.

The ONLY reason I can see recommending any Apple computer product over a PC is if the person is an absolute lazy ass moron that doesn't want to take the 30 seconds a day it takes to maintain a piece of equipment.

They're wrong there anyway, there are spyware/trojan/virus on Macs as well.

[Grooverider]

I bought a macbook 2 years ago. I really liked OSX at first. I became one of those flag waving Mactards.

Fast forward 24 months.

It's covered in cracks now, where the shitty design of the magnets have destroyed the case. This is the second time it has happened - the first time apple repaired it for me. They offered to repair it free this time too but the cracks will be back in another 6 months. Also, the white plastic is getting heavily discoloured in certain areas where the macbook gets hot. Superior materials my ass. The thing has one mouse button, which means I have to press an additional keyboard key to access sub-menus. That or place two fingers on the trackpad and THEN click.

The only thing that made me realise my ignorance was when I bought my first new desktop recently. I installed XP (then deleted it) then Vista (then kept it, solely for Visual Studio - maybe I should just use a VM though). I have since entirely dumped MS operating systems and moved back to SuSE after a 6+ year absence. I downloaded OpenOffice, Wine, Netbeans and OpenArena. I'll be installing suse on my macbook soon I think and dumping OSX.

The moral of the story. Fuck Apple, Fuck Microsoft. Both are unnecessary.

[NMTS]

Originally Posted by Manseed

edit: oh shit post 1k

This reminds me of going to an ihop late at night.. I went to the restroom and took a piss in a urinal just like that.

As I looked down i saw one of those filters(blocker, whatever) that said

"say no to drugs."

So I did.

[Vehn]

BLUUUUUUUUUU RAAAAYYYY