Okay, I confess. I love the PC-Mac commercials.

[SeattleGirl]

Most commercials suck big-time, but those commercials just crack me up!

[MonkeyFunk]

1. I adore John Hodgman

he's hysterical.

The hip kid? meh.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Have you seen the one where PC gets a video cam?

:rofl:

[MonkeyFunk]

4. No

I don't think I've seen that one yet.

[Kajsa]

26. It's great.

It covers the topic;

peripheral videocams vs. built in ones.

I love these commercials, too.

:thumbsup:

[petronius]

3. Let me guess: you use a Mac?

Personally, I think they play too heavily to Mac-users impressions of Windows to be very effective - it's preaching to the choir. It's like liberal jokes about RWers or vice versa I suppose): funny to the target audience but no one else will get it...

[SeattleGirl]

5. Actually, I use a rumpled suit PC

Not a Mac.

[petronius]

6. Well, then you're just weird...

:)

I think they're not bad as commercials go - certainly there are far worse - but I don't think they'll be effective in terms of growing Mac's market share, mainly because the caricature of the PC experience won't ring true for PC-users who might otherwise be tempted to switch. It's funny to Mac users (and you), but I can't imagine the ads drumming up much new business...

[SeattleGirl]

7. Commercials are weird. Sometimes, even the most annoying

ones will bring in business.

As to my sense of humor, well.....

There's absolutely NO explanation for it! :rofl:

[Omphaloskepsis]

9. I'm not sure they are trying to get new business with the ads.. Maybe a little..

With Apple they need to energize the base sometimes. Cult of Mac. They might just want to keep the current customers interested.

I'm talking out my ass. I don't know for a fact. Just something to think about.

[Awsi Dooger]

14. You'd have to be a door knob

Not to get it.

It's anything but preaching to the choir. Mac users hardly need to be reminded they are using a superior product.

The PC guy should be much uglier and more obese.

[petronius]

28. Isn't that the definition of preaching to the choir?

:shrug:

[grace0418]

27. I'm not that easily lead. I'm a Mac user because of my job but my husband works

on PCs and we don't have any great war over it. They both have their pluses and minuses. I just like the ads because they're funny. John Houseman is awesome and I've always liked the kid from Ed.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

30. i am a pc user. and i love the adds.

[Omphaloskepsis]

8. Oh, you are missing out on the best Apple ad ever..

http://www.ellenfeiss.net/movie.php?movie=movies/ellen_feiss.mov

edit : I should add. This was a real Apple ad that was on apple.com. I remember when it first came out.. It was a total WTF moment.

[Bassic]

19. That girl produced a short-lived cult-like following with that commercial

:D

[chknltl]

10. I agree, I like them ads too...

...and like you I have a PC. I WISH I had a Mac though.

ps: John Stewert is about to come on...so this is a hit-n-run post for now...

[Nicole]

11. I like them too

:rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

12. It's the dry humor, my very favorite kind of humor!

:rofl:

[Nicole]

13. I'm with you on that.

:rofl:

[cboy4]

15. I'm strangely attracted to the Mac.....if you know what I

mean.


I don't know why, but I'd really like to reformat his hard drive.

[Patiod]

20. Then you'd like the dopey movie "Accepted"

He's the lead in this "Animal House" rip-off, and kind of cute if you go for his slackerish charm.

[Crabby Appleton]

16. at first I found them funny, now they're just annoying

[meegbear]

18. Me too ...

I wanna kick the "I'm a Mac" kid in the teeth.

[eyepaddle]

21. I'm with you,

If you try too hard to look like a slacker--you ain't a slacker. Trying takes effort, ergo you could be slackin' harder!

Plus, I live in the Uptown section of Minneapolis and I see dudes wearing that uniform all the damn time; I must admit to getting tired of everybody trying to be individual in EXACTLY the same way as EVERYBODY in their peer group.

I know this was a rant that was tangentially related to the OP at best, but it is a main reason why I hate those damn commercials.

[PVnRT]

17. I prefer the parodies of them you can find on the internet

The commercials themselves are just fucking asinine.

[kwassa]

22. I've never found them funny or entertaining

just my sense of humor, I guess.

John Hodgeman is vastly funnier on the Daily Show, and really wasted in these ads, though I'm sure he doesn't mind the paycheck.

[mockmonkey]

23. I think

they make a cute couple.:thumbsup:

[Blue_Tires]

24. poor PC

one day the downtrodden PCs of the world are gonna RISE up!

I also really liked the first one with that hawt japanese girl

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

25. I might find them more amusing if half of their claims weren't lies.

Oh yeah, Macs never crash. My ass they don't! :eyes:

[deucemagnet]

29. I guess they're ok, as far as commercials go,

but they just reinforce the fact that I'm a PC guy.