Re: Apple's new line of commercials..

[The Wizard of Oz <wizard@emeraldcity.gov>]

On Sat, 20 May 2006 16:51:49 -0600, Terry Olsen wrote:

>> I think the new ads are fairly witty, and do address some real-world
>> differences between Macs and PCs (obviously with a strong Mac bias), but
>> the characterisation might tend to aggravate rather than entice PC users.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, Macs are overpriced, and over proprietary. And now 
> that they are Intel based, they are no different than every other PC out 
> there.

	Three points in your paragraph and I agree with all of them.

> As far as mine is concerned, those commercials do nothing for me except turn 
> me off even more toward the Mac. I've never had to re-start my PC. I've 
> never had a virus harm my PC (though i've had infected files, McAfee has 
> always caught them as soon as I tried to access them).

	Everybody has different experiences. The best behaved machine I've run is
my Linux box. My IIGS is second. The G3 Mac I was given (I occasionally
help out Mac folks) came in third after I downgraded the OS X. In the past
I have had four machines which ran M$ operating systems. DOS was the most
stable of the bunch. I had one virus in 2000 (McAfee caught it too). Each
of the four machines has had nothing but problems when it was running
Windows. All the problems disappeared when I moved the machines over to
Linux. I've made the latest PC dual-boot and use VMWare on the Linux side
so I can play games. With a clean install of Windows I have found it
behaves very well (two reboots/month) if I forbid access to the net. YMMV.
I don't see why anybody would be turned off. All they are saying is they
think they are better than M$.

> What was the last commercial about? Something about a Mac being able to talk 
> to a digital camera and the PC couldn't?  Funny, my PC talks just fine to my 
> digital camera.

	Mine didn't. Then again I was given a cheap camera and the software for
M$ which came with it was laced with spyware which DEMANDED a net
connection (or else) to work.

> I'm getting completely turned off to even hanging out in Apple communities. 
> I go because i'm fond of the Apple II. And when a community, chat room or 
> newsgroup, titles itself as an "Apple II" community, I expect to encounter 
> conversation about the Apple II; not how great the Mac is and how much the 
> PC sucks. 

	I reluctantly agree. This conversation should take place in
comp.sys.apple not comp.sys.apple2. The new commercials have nothing to do
with the Apple// machines.

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				Later
				Mike