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Apple airs new Mac commercial
Shout for joy, oh members of the Mac Elite -- our time has finally come! Apple is officially airing a TV advert that
-- brace yourselves -- focuses on the Mac. In the spot I saw (on FOX, during Prison Break), comedian John
Hodgeman (claiming to be "PC") and another actor (claiming to be "Mac") have a conversation about
viruses. Hodgeman gets sick, and "Mac" talks about how Macs aren't affected by PC malware. Hodgeman then
"crashes," falling backwards. It was almost too good to be true.As soon as I find a video link to the ad, I'll post it.
Update: MacRumors posts about another, similarly-themed ad. This one focuses on the iPod and iLife. Still searching for the actual video....
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Stefan Constantinescu said 8:30PM on 5-01-2006
Tell me the number of Apple ads you see versus Dell ...
exactly
I am curious to see this commercial tho :-)
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Scott Dawson said 8:30PM on 5-01-2006
Someone should have this up on YouTube in no time.
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Patrick McCarron said 8:37PM on 5-01-2006
I have posted up an image capture of the ad from my HDTV box. I would encode it to a new format but I'm sure Apple will have it up soon on their website.
http://patrickmccarron.com/images/applead.png
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Colin P said 8:37PM on 5-01-2006
Commercial is hillarious. Good stuff. I liked it a lot. Good job Apple!
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Patrick McCarron said 8:38PM on 5-01-2006
Also forgot to mention that the other actor is Justin Long, from Dodgeball, Waiting and many other movies.
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Paul said 8:38PM on 5-01-2006
HAHA that commercial was pretty funny
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Thorn said 8:39PM on 5-01-2006
Wonder if this commercial about viruses is what the recent news stir about the old Mac OS virus thing is about?
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Blake said 8:40PM on 5-01-2006
never thought i would be recording commercials....
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DidYouLoseASock said 8:40PM on 5-01-2006
It sounds funny, hope that it is funny.
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Dean said 8:41PM on 5-01-2006
cmon cmon cmon!
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TimD said 8:47PM on 5-01-2006
I almost missed it. I was walking out of the room when it came on. Thank God for my DVR though b/c I rewound it and it was the funniest thing I've seen in weeks - It's so nice to see an Apple ad that isn't about iTunes or iPods.
It's about time Dell/Alienware, HP/Compaq, and IBM/Lenovo weren't the only computer ads on TV. And to think, Apple has managed to increase it's marketshare pretty handily even w/o any computer ads since the ol' switch campaign.
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Mike said 8:51PM on 5-01-2006
John Hodgeman is great. His daily show segments are really funny.
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Brendan said 9:00PM on 5-01-2006
Post the damn thing already I'm going crazy here, please! Ta
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Tom said 9:03PM on 5-01-2006
Yeah, it was pretty sweet. I couldn't believe it at first. Apple/Chiat Day really used humor well in the spot.
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Tony said 9:10PM on 5-01-2006
http://www.spymac.com/upload/forums/2006/05/01/f4726357_DSCN0219.MOV
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andy said 9:15PM on 5-01-2006
i never thought apple would take the no virus / spyware ad approach (seems like a bit of an invite to trouble (either virus makers or press) but it seems they have worded it well ;) clever apple
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James said 9:18PM on 5-01-2006
It aired right after the King of Queens intro tonight also... I've got it TiVo'd but no good way of getting it onto my computer... I think the actor that is a Mac, is Justin Long, who was in Dodgeball, and Jeepers Creepers, among other things...
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Hubkap said 9:21PM on 5-01-2006
http://homepage.mac.com/brianbobcat1/iMovieTheater15.html
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3dkiller said 9:31PM on 5-01-2006
Thanks for the heads up! I look forward to seeing the commercial.
FYI, It's John Hodgman, not Hodgeman.
http://imdb.com/name/nm1894655/
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Jason said 9:36PM on 5-01-2006
OMG - that's awesome!! I hope they air it often!
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