New "Get a Mac" ad: Office Stress

Its a MARTIAN POPPY THINGEY!

Seriously, that's what their called

During the idol show? I hate that show. I take it you didn't watch March Madness or you would have seen this already.

The stress ad appeared last week. I use both Vista and OSX regularly and I will say that I am not sure those ads are entirely true. But hopefully people have enough sense to realize this. Overall I think they are really funny. I agree with the poster who thinks they are getting more aggressive. They are. I was a little shocked at how "mean" they were towards Microsoft. Ha ha!

I think Mac would benefit from the stress toy more than PC does seeing what horrible piece of software Office 2008 is.

Believe me - you need the stress toy WHEN you use office for mac. It is one piece of unfinished software.

It can NOT do the same things as the Win Version.

It is NOT faster than the 2004 version, even though it is universal.

I am truely thinking of using office 2007 in my parallels window.

I still think the ads are horrible. "Get a Mac" used to be funny, but I've been thinking that they're really too cruel about MS, rather than actually pointing out how Macs are better. Their ads make it seem that "we're not as bad as M$, we're just the 2nd worst".

If they'd make it more iPhone ad-like, that would be far better, and throwing cheap cliches of the past onto them.

I don't know if that day's coming anytime soon. I have a friend who won't buy a Mac just because of these ads that stereotype.

I like the new ads - even though I do not use any Microsoft products on my Mac. Still like the ads.

Finally they are talking about things that a Mac can do rather than how much PC's suck.

Yeah, it's funny because PC Office & Mac Office aren't compatible anymore (Mac Office can't open VBA macros) and that Mac Office is absolutely abysmal. Office 2004 in Rosetta *and* Office 2007 in VMWare both launch faster than the "native" Office 2008.

Is it just me or are these last 3 ads being really aggressive?