Apple tries to gatecrash Win 7 launch with new commercials

[Ensign Riles]

I had no idea they had accelerometers. This would be a huge amount of fun to install on the Macs downstairs in the computer lab.

[*The.Doctor]

Originally Posted by computernerd

This is the only Mac that I ever liked:

Just curious, but how many Mac's have you used?

[computernerd]

A few. I've used the one I posted quite a bit, and I've tried all of the newer ones, and an older MacBook that a friend has, plus a MacBook Pro that another friend has

[*The.Doctor]

I've never actually used a Intel mac yet. The best one i own is a old Power Mac G4 (1.25Ghz, 1.25GB DDR333, Radeon 9000 Pro) running OSX 10.4. I have a old G4 733Mhz sitting in the closet running OS 9.2 but i haven't used that in ages.

[computernerd]

The iMacs surprisingly are the worst desktop Macs when it comes to gaming, they use the Nvidia 9400M which they say is so amazing. Another thing that's really weird is the fact that iMacs don't use Quad-cores anymore, I went to an Apple store not long ago and all the iMacs use C2D only.

[Junk angel]

There's a few mac viruses out there actually even know.
But they're pretty rare and the end user has to be oh look it asks me to do something let me not read the dialogue and just click ok type.

[C38368]

Originally Posted by computernerd

This is the only Mac that I ever liked:

There. Fixed it.

(Seriously. In it's heyday, this was one of the preëminent home computers available to man, and one that I respect to this day, particularly for it's gaming prowess when paired with a Mockingboard.)

[Red Menace]

Originally Posted by nazoa93

Even the first commercials they mentioned that Macs can't get viruses, that commercial was a lot more compelling than the "Give up on Vista" commercial, which just made me happy with my PC set up with XP

I don't really give two shits about what people use or why, but I think the "we don't get viruses" angle is just bad marketing. Macs don't get many viruses because they don't control enough of the market share to be worth the time to code a virus specifically for them. So as these advertisements exclaiming "we don't get viruses!" help to grow their market share they will get more and more viruses. Then, your average Mac users, who have been told they have no fear of viruses will go apeshit because "I thought Macs don't get viruses!?" We'll see about customer satisfaction then.


They should focus on what they do better than what they supposedly don't do.

[Junk angel]

Apple: "Windows 7 is still Windows, complex and expensive"

recommend the third last paragraph for sheer idiocy.

[computernerd]

Apple never ceases to amaze me with their stupidity