NY Times debuts new in-media Apple ad

If you head on over to the NY Times today, you'll find an especially cute and well-done advertisement from Apple. In this, PC reacts to the Wall Street Journal quote in the banner ad and amends the pro-Apple ad by pasting "NOT" at the end of "Leopard is better and faster than Vista". Be aware: watching the ad pretty much brought my 733 G4 to its knees and I couldn't get the sound to work but since PC is my virtual advertisement boyfriend[1], watching the ad was a must-do.

[1] C'mon. Both you and I know that he secretly owns Apple products at home[2].

[2] I mean, really, who prefers ad-Mac to ad-PC? Readers? Do you? Speak up in the comments!

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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/

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If you head on over to the NY Times today, you'll find an especially cute and well-done advertisement from Apple. In this, PC reacts to...

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Ian

On YouTube @
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMojT_K9gCk

January 18 2008 at 1:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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kendy_chen

Thanks! I've regretted being late, now that you saved me!

February 18 2008 at 9:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark

Personally I'm down with ad-Mac, he's so cool and he always has all the answers.
Did I mention he was cool?

January 17 2008 at 11:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark

Personally I'm down with ad-Mac, he's so cool and he always has all the answers.
Did I mention he was cool?

January 17 2008 at 11:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ecobore

That is the cleverest use of multiple frame advertising that I have EVER seen on the web!

January 17 2008 at 6:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Phil

Yah, doesn't work in NetNewsWire but Safari loads it fine. Very funny ad though :)

January 17 2008 at 5:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

maria

i loves me some ad-mac.

January 17 2008 at 3:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kev Orng

Works fine on my Dual800... even though I'm in the middle of burning DVDs and transferring gigs of data to the 400(ish)MHz G4, so I can finally update this bad boy to Tiger! Boo-yah!

I'd go try the ad on the older Mac, but my boss is discovering Keynote and I don't want to disturb him.

PC is definitely more likeable. John Hodgman is one funny guy, from the Daily Show to his "areas of my experitse" audiobook, I've enjoyed all his work that I've encountered so far. (get the audiobook, not the print, it's much much funnier when he's reading it and bickering with the BG music guy, the also-inimicable Jonathan Coulton)

Anyways, I am 12 DVDs away from finally laying Panther to rest, so stop bothering me! No, I can't back it up to an external HD, I have to clear that off as well so it can be used elsewhere.

January 17 2008 at 2:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JAG

It's definitely clever use of Flash... but I guess the Apple ad won't be viewable on the iPhone.

Then again, maybe those people aren't who the ad is targeted at anyway.

January 17 2008 at 2:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Itchy Pajamas

I love it!

And even more, I love that some people are so peeved by it. It clearly demarcates who's who. Sort of like when certain people wear white sheets. ;-)

January 17 2008 at 2:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

KenC

I forgot to add, that my 4+ year old, 867Mhz 12" AluPB plays the flash ad, just fine, no knee-bending required. Can't say the videocard is anything to write home about, but I wonder if the gap between 733Mhz and 867Mhz G4 is where flash works and it doesn't. Kind of like the minimum Leopard requirement. I'm using Leopard on my AluPB and it works fine. Are you running Leopard on your 733Mhz G4, Erica and DJCarbon?

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