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Apple posts long version of "Sad Song" ad
You can watch this and other Get a Mac ads by visiting the Apple Get a Mac site.
Thanks to Steve and Ton for the tip!
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5-20-2008 @ 5:07PM
ramond said...
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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5-20-2008 @ 5:24PM
Scott said...
I don't have any problems with Safari 3.1.1 (running on 10.5.2)
5-20-2008 @ 7:00PM
ramond said...
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.
5-20-2008 @ 5:19PM
boshi said...
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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5-20-2008 @ 5:51PM
Sam said...
this commercial is overkill.
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5-20-2008 @ 5:52PM
metroid87706 said...
I agree.
Sometimes Apple goes too far.
5-20-2008 @ 9:47PM
The Duck said...
And the award for most melodramatic comment goes tooooo...
metroid87706!
5-20-2008 @ 5:54PM
Magnus said...
When we thought it could not get any worse.. it shure does.
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5-20-2008 @ 5:59PM
Darren said...
Who knew John Hodgman could sing.
Writer-actor-singer. He's a triple threat now.
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5-20-2008 @ 6:28PM
Nick said...
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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5-20-2008 @ 6:38PM
jesse said...
I still think they should have had Mac add something at the end about recording the song with Garage Band.
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5-20-2008 @ 7:10PM
adamhdm42 said...
Ah yes.... the Vista Blues(creen of death)
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5-20-2008 @ 7:10PM
Galley said...
No bluesman wears a cowboy hat.
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5-20-2008 @ 8:15PM
obo said...
PCs are known for their non-standard hardware, after all. Also their annoying, unhelpful puppy-dog companion features.
5-20-2008 @ 9:04PM
Macintologist said...
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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5-21-2008 @ 6:14AM
falafeln said...
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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5-21-2008 @ 11:24AM
Andrew said...
Now this is just sad.... Apple went too far with this. Even with the short sad song.
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5-21-2008 @ 12:04PM
Gobo said...
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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5-23-2008 @ 12:18AM
Unitedlicious said...
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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