Posts Tagged ‘Macintosh’
Links for 2007-09-11
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007- Rosetta Compatibility: PowerPC Applications on Intel Macs A good reference list when transitioning from a PowerPC Mac to an Intel Mac.
Links for 2007-07-24
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007- Byte Cellar: Apple //c as a Dumb Terminal to my Mac mini Gotta try this out. There’s an old Apple //c lying around somewhere. Oops, I’m missing the Mac mini.
- Leave those kids alone “The idea that adults should be playing with their kids is a modern invention — and not necessarily a good one” (this article sort of relieves the guilt for me, I must admit)
iRife
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006Justin Long may or may not be the “Mac” in Apple’s TV ads any more but in Japan, both the PC and the Mac actors have been replaced by these guys.
via macsimumnews
Apple’s Boot Camp Ads
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
Apple’s new series of commercials touting Boot Camp on Intel Macs* is hilarious. It features a bespectacled, paunchy guy in a suit as the PC and a laidback, John Leguizamo-lookalike** as the Mac. The ad on viruses should get heavy rotation, I think. The rest of the ads, however, should probably get limited play. They’re funny alright but a little condescending. They’re potentially off-putting to PC users that Apple is trying to woo into the Mac fold. Unless, of course, they’re not Apple’s target audience at all. I suppose the ads could serve well to give Macheads a feeling of smug superiority over Windows users. Bleh.
*In a rush to create this entry, I totally missed that these ads are not about Boot Camp at all. I guess this Joy of Tech strip was still indelibly etched in my mind that I thought the new Apple ads were personified versions of it. If these ads are not about Boot Camp, then what this tells me is that Apple reluctantly bowed to pressure to provide users the ability to boot into Windows and these ads aim to show that OS X is the far superior OS to boot into. (Take that, Dvorak!)
**ok, just found out the actor is Justin Long from Herbie Fully Loaded. You can’t blame me for not knowing that.