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Apple posts long version of "Sad Song" ad
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Thanks to Steve and Ton for the tip!
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ramond said 5:07PM on 5-20-2008
What's funny is the ads video player hangs and crashes Safari 3.1.1. I guess this part of the site is aimed at Windows and IE users only though.
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Scott said 5:24PM on 5-20-2008
I don't have any problems with Safari 3.1.1 (running on 10.5.2)
ramond said 7:00PM on 5-20-2008
For me, on the Sad Song Long (medium) page Safari is using 120.0 CPU even when the video is paused. I'm on a first gen MBP 2.16Ghz and after a few seconds on that page I need to kill Safari to be able to do anything. Apple need a video plugin that uses less CPU.
boshi said 5:19PM on 5-20-2008
I get too many glitches to watch the video after the leopard graphics update, so I have to watch it in xp. I guess cute commercials are more important than 4,1 macbook pro users.
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Sam said 5:51PM on 5-20-2008
this commercial is overkill.
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metroid87706 said 5:52PM on 5-20-2008
I agree.
Sometimes Apple goes too far.
The Duck said 9:47PM on 5-20-2008
And the award for most melodramatic comment goes tooooo...
metroid87706!
Magnus said 5:54PM on 5-20-2008
When we thought it could not get any worse.. it shure does.
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Darren said 5:59PM on 5-20-2008
Who knew John Hodgman could sing.
Writer-actor-singer. He's a triple threat now.
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Nick said 6:28PM on 5-20-2008
I found it hilarious.
And to the closet Windows sympathizers, nothing, bar nothing, could be more painful than the Bruce Springsteen "internal spoof" video Microsoft made for Vista.
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jesse said 6:38PM on 5-20-2008
I still think they should have had Mac add something at the end about recording the song with Garage Band.
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adamhdm42 said 7:10PM on 5-20-2008
Ah yes.... the Vista Blues(creen of death)
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Galley said 7:10PM on 5-20-2008
No bluesman wears a cowboy hat.
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obo said 8:15PM on 5-20-2008
PCs are known for their non-standard hardware, after all. Also their annoying, unhelpful puppy-dog companion features.
Macintologist said 9:04PM on 5-20-2008
It just shows how ahead of his time John Swerdan was to record an entire album dedicated to songs about the Mac and computers in general. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=199759347&s=143441
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falafeln said 6:14AM on 5-21-2008
It's pretty funny (I like PC, he's cool and he's a mac user irl), but please Apple – make some ads that NOT point out how much Vista sucks (everyone knows that already), but how good OS X is instead, these commercials make mac users seem elitist (which we aren't)
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Andrew said 11:24AM on 5-21-2008
Now this is just sad.... Apple went too far with this. Even with the short sad song.
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Gobo said 12:04PM on 5-21-2008
Well, I thought it was clever. Overkill? This isn't showing on TV -- it's for Mac fans who get a kick out of watching John Hodgman sing... and I'm one of 'em.
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Unitedlicious said 12:18AM on 5-23-2008
I switched to Mac not too long ago. As much as I don't like Vista, the truth is that I've never done Ctrl+Alt+Del.. ever. While I did a couple of times with Leopard.
Also the upgrade on PC isn't as expensive as Mac in my opinion (especially on laptops).
But again, I don't see myself running PC again however. As I'm waiting for my new iMac to come in days time
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