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02/12/2007

"Get a PC" Ads

Ok, you've seen some funny spoofs, but now check out the "Get a Mac" ads from a PC perspective. Video after the jump.
But now it’s time for the PC to counterattack, with the help of director Laurie McGuinness, who created four small hilarious clips, with the same character personalities (the PC being older, “boring”, and the Mac being younger and cooler), but this time the Mac doesn’t get the spotlight
[via our-picks]

Music

Work

Girl

Money

This entry was posted on 02/12/2007 03:40am and is filed under Apple, Computers, Video, Weird .
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Posted at 02/12/2007 03:53am by CyberSurge » Blog Archive » “Get a PC” Ads
[...] TechEBlog has a bunch of videos from Youtube that are spoofs on Apple’s “Get a Mac” ads. They are pretty good and made me laugh. I like the get a mac ads but I don’t like the recent one that talks about Windows Vista, I am running Vista and it runs just fine, it doesn’t bother you as much as they make it seem, anyway check out the videos over at TechEBlog. [...]
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Posted at 02/12/2007 04:38am by Matt
sorry guys, but this is pretty contrived. vast majority of the entire creative industry is, has been, and will continue to be powered by a mac. pc's, yes, are great for insulated accounting and some development environments, but are needlessly insecure. casting the proto-mac user as some goofball stoner who does nothing but make movies and wage elitest negligence against the musically disinclined is as bad as stereotyping pc users as idiots who need to be asked 2-5 times "are you sure you want to open notepad?" when viewing the source of a website from IE7. take the high road next time.
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Posted at 02/12/2007 05:25am by Mogo
"are you high?" haha most aren't as clever as i had hoped, but they're ok i guess. PC's rule
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Posted at 02/12/2007 06:35am by No Body
Meh. Boring.
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Posted at 02/12/2007 06:51am by chris
At last...
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Posted at 02/12/2007 08:13am by xor
These are pretty lame compared to the original ones.. exept the music one :-D
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Posted at 02/12/2007 08:51am by Dave
these aren't very clever :s
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Posted at 02/12/2007 10:25am by Johnnyg0
Pretty funny. I'd really like to see people getting together to gather money to put these on TV.
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Posted at 02/12/2007 10:55am by Ace
lol not bad
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Posted at 02/12/2007 10:58am by Henry
they dont make any sense at all...
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Posted at 02/12/2007 11:11am by Hi-Tech » PC Mac, 1:1
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Posted at 02/12/2007 12:13pm by Reno
They would be better if they made actual points like the "get a mac" ads.
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Posted at 02/12/2007 12:18pm by ellison17
For a buck and Steve Jobs will add DRM to it for free even if the record company doesn't require it.
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Posted at 02/12/2007 12:26pm by RealMonster
How were those clever? What was the point that they were trying to get across; that the author doesn't like Macs? That the Mac doesn't open spreadsheets? That if you go on a skiing vacation and you're a PC, hot women cling to you arm? Where did that come from? What sense does that make? Why wasn't the person recording music a hot woman and the person going skiing a dull guy? It's a series of non-sequiteurs thrown together to try and be amusing. Do Macs make you high or incapable of going to meeting? WHAT? At least the other spoofs have made sense.
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Posted at 02/12/2007 12:38pm by Rofe
hahahaha 10 points!
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Posted at 02/12/2007 1:00pm by dolo54
teh l4m3
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Posted at 02/12/2007 1:34pm by ellison17
"It’s a series of non-sequiteurs thrown together to try and be amusing" You just described every Apple ad ever made
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Posted at 02/12/2007 1:37pm by Thegonec Zango
Even for a mac-addict this is funny and I guess partly true (at least for music) ! Doesn't the PC Man remind you the oldschool stereotyped manager?
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Posted at 02/12/2007 1:44pm by adamramone
pwned
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Posted at 02/12/2007 2:16pm by Chauncey
"Its explained in those boring spreadsheets..." hahaha... thats great.
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Posted at 02/12/2007 2:56pm by Fjolvar
Now if only there was a "get Linux" spoofs.
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Posted at 02/12/2007 7:01pm by kyle gibson
i don't those are funny, nor do they make p.c.'s look any better. it makes them look like an asshole. macs are just, they're just better.
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Posted at 02/12/2007 8:18pm by brad
those really aren't funny. the pc comes off as a **** and the mac comes off as an idiot. at least in the real ads the characters are likeable on both sides
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Posted at 02/12/2007 9:01pm by Jimbo
Umm. How does the "Girl" one make any sense? These are not funny.
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Posted at 02/12/2007 9:04pm by arvana
The original "Get a Mac" ads had a lot more substance... these come across as propaganda with no actual reasons why a PC might be better. Nicely done videos, but I was hoping for something more real!
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