Mac Commercials..

[xioca]

These commercials just piss me off. I have nothing against either windows or mac, and and see both pro's and cons to each.. but man lately the mac commercials have just been over the top and making me not even want a mac.

The worst one is their new commercial saying that Microsoft is throwing all their money at advertising. First off the last commercial of theirs I saw was the "Windows Mojave" and that isn't played that often. Yet I see is mac commercials left and right, so damn hypocritical.

Any of these commercials rub you guys the wrong way to?

 

[Dready]

I think they are funny as hell

 

[xioca]

personaly I like the Nerdy PC guy, i think he's funny as hell.. the other guy is a complete douche.

 

[crimsondragon]

Macs suck. User friendliness is for wimps.

 

[VPrime]

OSX is great. Unix FTW!
If your using a mac for its "user firendly" interface.. then your doing it wrong

Though I agree, the commercials are funny, but sooo hypocritical. Plus all microsoft needs to do is make a commercial on windows/Gaming... Sure apple has come a long way, but still no comparison to DirectX. Plus the latest release of OpenGL is a fail.

 

[SD99GST]

Hi, Im a MAC!

 

[xioca]

Yeah I run Linux on my laptop, great internet browser and email machine. I built my own computer so i do think user friendly mac are way over priced. But then again I do alot of photography work and if I had the money I'd drop it on a nice 30" Imac... but that's at the end of my gear list.

 

[the_mork]

Confesssions of a former Gentoo user,

Unix and Unix clones ride the failboat.

I spent years as a Linux fanboy. I enjoyed the "free speech" and "free beer" aspects until I realized that I was spending hours a week to have an insanely fast machine that crashed every time my cursor hit the edge of the screen while playing a game made for a different operating system. Now I use Windows and the world didn't end, Microsoft may well be selling my personal information to everyone they can find but since no one cares that makes me pretty safe, the internet is not a split-level system controlled by Microsoft (old palladium conspiracy theories), the money I threw at Vista has come back 20-fold in the time I've saved, and most of all I am no longer at the mercy of half-retarded socialist developers with over-huge egos.

Macs are about the same but at least they're easy to use.

 

[VPrime]

I like OSX because it is like a very well polished linux Distro.. I like macs, because they look cool and have neat features you wouldn't think you would need until they offer it

 

[rossb]

Confesssions of a former Gentoo user,

Unix and Unix clones ride the failboat.

I spent years as a Linux fanboy. I enjoyed the "free speech" and "free beer" aspects until I realized that I was spending hours a week to have an insanely fast machine that crashed every time my cursor hit the edge of the screen while playing a game made for a different operating system.

Did you ever try Ubuntu? It is by far the most stable linux distro I have ever used, and in fact I'm using it right now. Plus Wine works perfectly these days, I get higher FPS in WoW and Oblivion using Wine than I ever did in XP. And my XP was beast with all the pointless services turned off.

And about the Mac commercials, the ipod saved them because it became a symbol of social status. They came out with that ad campaign, dropping tons of money to make mac "hip". They are the fail boat or the computer world.

 

[VETTE_50_TH]

Macs are alright. They have some good features to them. But, they sell to kids that don't need to do anything (ie. work) and just sit on facebook or myspace and make music and movies. Thats how they sell them. Macs are very overpriced, esp the MACPRO. You could have a PC desktop for half the cost of a MACPRO and the same stuff inside. The laptops are decent, look good though, esp the new ones.

Linux is for geeks.... and nerds...and people who have a plethora of time to learn the code.

PC's are alright. They play games and good to watch porn with. Vista works for me, but other people hate it. Meh.

James

 

[Bud92gsx]

And I'm a PC. Sometimes the Mac commercials are funny as hell. But they are right, Vista needs to be fixed..... I run on Vista. It isn't as bad as people say it is-sometimes. Google toolbar crashes vista, sometime's Vista crashes Vista. My girl runs XP, and hers never crashes. Mine crashes all the time. Well sometimes by stupid shhh I do(downloading). But all operating systems are going to have bugs to work out. Eventually there will be no Vista crashing, sept for the things I do to my Compooter...

 

[T is for TURBO]

I think the commercials are stupid. I run vista on both my desktop and my laptop. They run just fine. Macs are not really that powerful. They handle multimedia rather well, but other than that, the PC trumps them in every other aspect. I'd like to see a Mac handle a giant data base/server as well as a PC. And I'd also like to see how well a Mac runs a 3D modeling progam such as Solidworks, or ProE or even AutoCAD... oh wait, I forgot, you can't run any of those programs on a Mac... I won't even get into the video games either...

 

[need2boostpsi]

I'm cool with mac's but man those damn commercials piss me off!

 

[Defiant]

Macs are great. They're just too damned expensive, by a factor of about three. I'll put up with the Windows bullshit if it means I can run either a lot more, or just more systems for less money.

Some day, I really will try Ubuntu. Honest. I've looked at it, and had it on a laptop, but never really got after it.

 

[VPrime]

I think the commercials are stupid. I run vista on both my desktop and my laptop. They run just fine. Macs are not really that powerful. They handle multimedia rather well, but other than that, the PC trumps them in every other aspect. I'd like to see a Mac handle a giant data base/server as well as a PC. And I'd also like to see how well a Mac runs a 3D modeling progam such as Solidworks, or ProE or even AutoCAD... oh wait, I forgot, you can't run any of those programs on a Mac... I won't even get into the video games either...

No offense.. but this is your typical reply of some one who doesnt know much about computers.

Macs being for multimedia is really just computer nerd propaganda. Right from apple you get a whole suite of tools to develop software. FREE! It is actually an overall great operating system...

Macs are not that powerful? Thats a pretty broad statement. Which mac? Mac mini? Mac book? Mac book pro? iMac? mac book air? How about the mac Pro line up? 8 Core CPU, up to 32gb of ram.. Sure they can be powerful, just like a "PC" (Which macs are. the whole PC term is stupid), but what they have is an operating system built for that specific piece of hardware. No Drivers to deal with. Unlike with windows, where you can have a million different combination of hardware running the same OS.. Microsoft cant write drivers for every device out there, so you will run into issues with unstable drivers from third party developers. You may have not encountered it, but it is completely possible.

You would like to see a mac handle a giant data base? er.... why cant it? Who says it is not possible? Oracle SQL Server is available for OSX. OSX is built upon UNIX, which is one of the worlds most stable operating systems. Plus there are tones of other data bases available for OSX.

You would like to see how a mac runs a modeling program? umm, hate t break it to you but A LOT of today's 3d animated movies are modeled and rendered on mac pros. They usually consist of multiple million polygon models, so I think they can handle it just fine. Not sure if programs liek solid works are avilable for it, but You do get things like Maya 3d. Now its not autocad but same concept.

Video games, as I mentioned earlier macs are getting there. A lot of the latest macs are b eing ported over, or "emulated" directX using Cider built into games. Now, it is no where near the gaming platform as windows. But that's because windows has directX available for it. Makes writing game engines easier.
Oh there's also Cross over games. which lets you run your windows games and programs.. I can play counter strike source, Team fortress 2 etc, very fast.

 

[xioca]

Ha is this crap^ we're supposed to be Yay'ing or Nay'ing their damn commercials.

But if you really want to get in to it you can run OSX on a PC. So are we comparing the operating systems or the hardware integration?

Osx is userfriendly and pretty, flows very well and has the dock, few is any viruses

Xp has games, majority of software... more virus'

Mac hardware is all plug and play, no driver installs... but cost 2x-3x's as much, less custimization, but smaller cases

Intel hardware has much more customization, cheaper, majority of the market... bigger cases

 

[the_mork]

Did you ever try Ubuntu? It is by far the most stable linux distro I have ever used, and in fact I'm using it right now. Plus Wine works perfectly these days, I get higher FPS in WoW and Oblivion using Wine than I ever did in XP. And my XP was beast with all the pointless services turned off.

No, I left Linux just as Ubuntu was gearing up for a stable release. The point is that my laptop came with Vista and I've put about 2 hours into actually messing with this operating system, the idea that it "just works" is not at all overrated and I can run any game I want to on this machine without any issues (yay SLI). After the whole xfree/xorg debacle I just couldn't take it anymore I realized just how open the entire development community was to massive egos just shutting everything down.

Specifically with the commercials I get really angry at the ones talking about angry Vista users and the need to "fix" Vista. My laptop has never crashed (nor did the one before it with Vista though xp did die a few times) and any competent computer user can keep a Windows machine with a low profile completely safe without even needing a firewall or antivirus software (don't open executables people) let alone when you have one of the idiot-proof suites like Nortons. I am somewhat disheartened by the lack of windowsFS and maybe I missed something but I never heard of Avalon again after the release.

As for anyone who says Macs can't be powerful or that the operating system is special to the hardware keep in mind that macs now use the x86 architecture which is the same hardware that you are running on your Windows machine.

 

[crimsondragon]

You would like to see how a mac runs a modeling program? umm, hate t break it to you but A LOT of today's 3d animated movies are modeled and rendered on mac pros. They usually consist of multiple million polygon models, so I think they can handle it just fine. Not sure if programs liek solid works are avilable for it, but You do get things like Maya 3d. Now its not autocad but same concept.

I can back that paragraph up with my own personal experience. I stayed with my friend for two nights at her school, UArts, and we went to the computer labs to do something. Several of these Macs were running some sort of 3D modeling program. It was pretty hardcore.

 

[Whiplash]

No offense.. but this is your typical reply of some one who doesnt know much about computers.

Macs being for multimedia is really just computer nerd propaganda. Right from apple you get a whole suite of tools to develop software. FREE! It is actually an overall great operating system...

Macs are not that powerful? Thats a pretty broad statement. Which mac? Mac mini? Mac book? Mac book pro? iMac? mac book air? How about the mac Pro line up? 8 Core CPU, up to 32gb of ram.. Sure they can be powerful, just like a "PC" (Which macs are. the whole PC term is stupid), but what they have is an operating system built for that specific piece of hardware. No Drivers to deal with. Unlike with windows, where you can have a million different combination of hardware running the same OS.. Microsoft cant write drivers for every device out there, so you will run into issues with unstable drivers from third party developers. You may have not encountered it, but it is completely possible.

You would like to see a mac handle a giant data base? er.... why cant it? Who says it is not possible? Oracle SQL Server is available for OSX. OSX is built upon UNIX, which is one of the worlds most stable operating systems. Plus there are tones of other data bases available for OSX.

You would like to see how a mac runs a modeling program? umm, hate t break it to you but A LOT of today's 3d animated movies are modeled and rendered on mac pros. They usually consist of multiple million polygon models, so I think they can handle it just fine. Not sure if programs liek solid works are avilable for it, but You do get things like Maya 3d. Now its not autocad but same concept.

Video games, as I mentioned earlier macs are getting there. A lot of the latest macs are b eing ported over, or "emulated" directX using Cider built into games. Now, it is no where near the gaming platform as windows. But that's because windows has directX available for it. Makes writing game engines easier.
Oh there's also Cross over games. which lets you run your windows games and programs.. I can play counter strike source, Team fortress 2 etc, very fast.

So all that stuff you can run with two operating systems I can run with just one.

 

[slipstream808]

Final Cut Pro. I love it on the Mac. Other than that, gimme a PC with Windows.

 

[Drifte]

Yeah I run Linux on my laptop, great internet browser and email machine. I built my own computer so i do think user friendly mac are way over priced. But then again I do alot of photography work and if I had the money I'd drop it on a nice 30" Imac... but that's at the end of my gear list.

That'd be great...if they made one. But for now I'll have to deal with the 24" Imac, and dream of owning the 30" cinema display, or the new 24" display that nearly matches the Imac in appearance.

Im a graphic designer, Mac was the best answer. I spent the last 5 years on a PC no problems. But when it came to the images, nothing looked so good as it does on this screen. I also like the clean design, lack of wires. Only downset is upgradability and the wireless card :/

Currently I run 500gb hd, Intel core 2 duo 3ghz processor and 4gb ram. NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS, 512MB No problems...yet!

 

[VPrime]

So all that stuff you can run with two operating systems I can run with just one.

Every thing I mentioned is ONLY on OSX. Running ONE operating system.

As for anyone who says Macs can't be powerful or that the operating system is special to the hardware keep in mind that macs now use the x86 architecture which is the same hardware that you are running on your Windows machine.

The difference between OSX and windows as far as hardware is concerened is this. Sure they now use same CPUs. BUT, Apple has the operating system designed for their specific hardware. With windows you have the choice of a million different choices. Different mother boards, different chipsets, different memory, different video cards. On a mac, apple knows exactly what is going inside each box and the operating system does not need to beable to run different types of hard ware.
This has its ups and downs. Positive is that overall more stable. Down side is that its pretty much a closed box system and you cant change any thing.. limited upgrade ability and overall expensive.


Also, I would like to note that I am not some crazy hardcore apple person. I dont even own a mac! I just have OS X installed on my regular computer. I just hate it when people shoot out random things that they hear from a friend of a friend. Know your facts first

 

[xioca]

Yeah I had Osx on my comp too mainly for photoshop cs3, turns out it was faster on windows. And although it looked cool and all, I use lightroom so i don't need all that fluff.

 

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