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Explore Carrie Bradshaw's MacBook Pro
Like many women (and men), I'm pretty excited about the upcoming Sex and the City movie. While the show was awesome for a myriad of reasons (the humor, the fashion, the catch-phrases), what often gets overlooked is that Carrie Bradshaw was a Mac girl. From 1998 through 2004, Carrie almost always started and ended each show typing on her Mac. It makes sense; can you really imagine someone that fashion and style conscious using anything else?In season one, she used the original Powerbook G3, if I'm not mistaken (it was either Kanga or the 3400c), but she moved up to a WallStreet and then a Pismo until the series concluded its run.
The official website for the movie has added a new feature, "Carrie Bradshaw's MacBook Pro" that allows fans to "explore" the virtual desktop of our favorite fashionista, answer trivia questions in "chat" windows with other SATC characters, based on clues found on the desktop, to unlock bonus content/videos and for a chance to win a Sex and the City movie poster.
I'll admit, the whole thing is a total novelty, but it's still kind of cool. I especially like that the default browser on the "desktop" is Camino. It's always fun to see Apple products integrated into other promotional campaigns.
(New Line Cinema, like TUAW, is ultimately part of the same media conglomerate, Time Warner).
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Maikel said 1:18PM on 5-20-2008
The Apple logo int he top corner is a link to apple.com.
Someone gave someone a lot of money for this...
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Tom said 1:36PM on 5-20-2008
Not really, they have the icon for Preview.app in the dock and they call it iPhoto
Frank Furter said 1:33PM on 5-20-2008
Ah, thank you. Another entry for my list of "reasons to quit reading TUAW".
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Luigi193 said 1:54PM on 5-20-2008
Then leave
Frank Furter said 1:56PM on 5-20-2008
Oh my! An angry Sex & the City viewer. You mean, leave, and miss updates like this article? Not on your life, girlfriend!
Websnap said 2:04PM on 5-20-2008
and yet, you're still here...
get over yourselves! it has to do with apple marketing and it's a nod to pop culture. At least it's not another post about iPhone 2.0.
K said 2:37PM on 5-20-2008
I dont think he was angry about you dissing sex and the city just your need to complain for no reasons. It seems like you should have just glossed over this article and continued on your way, instead of immediately posting a rude comment.
Though this article meant nothing to me (I actually am quite annoyed by the sex and the city, especially after it turned tbs into the sex and the city channel), my gf was very excited when I pointed her to the page. I dont think its any different then when I went to the sector six site for transformers movies before it came out. When people are excited about a movie, the teasers/promotions can be exciting too.
Todd Sieling said 1:43PM on 5-20-2008
If she's using anything but an Air, then props needs to be schooled on the latest and greatest.
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KFD said 2:52PM on 5-20-2008
64gb SSHD right?
Aron T said 1:43PM on 5-20-2008
You neglected to mention that Charlotte was also a Mac-using member of the "fab 4" - she had an iBook!
Additionally, Sam's office employed the use of several Macs as well.
I swear, it's my wife that watches the show.
Ps, Don't listen to the haters, Geek Chic is muy importante!
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Elias said 2:34PM on 5-20-2008
I think they were all Mac users. In the later seasons, Charlotte's husband and Alexandr Petrovsky ("The Russian") have PowerBook G4s, etc.
Carrie always had older hardware, while her friends usually had the latest and greatest (at the time).
There was also the episode where her hard drive crashes and she goes to TekServe and has no backups. Her boyfriend buys her an iBook, but she doesn't want it, because she likes her old computer.
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KFD said 2:37PM on 5-20-2008
She should upgrade to Leopard.
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Lars Hoel said 2:48PM on 5-20-2008
And when it broke, she brought her Pismo to Tekserve ...
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KFD said 2:46PM on 5-20-2008
If they are all so "cutting edge", shouldn't they be using the most cutting edge OS available today: Microsoft Vista! Just ask Steve Ballmer, he'll back me up. (BTW - I never let my Mac "learn" the spelling of Ballmer. It's the first step to the dark side)
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djjazzyjoe said 2:47PM on 5-20-2008
camino huh>???
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R. Knight said 2:46PM on 5-20-2008
I'm man enough to admit I watch SATC with my wife quite a bit. There was an entire b-plot of one episode dedicated to that fact the HD crashed on her PowerBook and she had never backed it up. Her boyfriend at the time tried to get her a new one. A Clam shell iBook as a matter of fact, and she didn't want anything to do with it. Of course the show made it seem like replacing the drive was a big deal, but she stuck it out and got her PB back with a zip if I recall to back it up.
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Christof said 5:25PM on 5-20-2008
Hmm, it seems to be a special model. Mine has the magnetic power plug on the other side...
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Toren said 9:55PM on 5-20-2008
Agreed!! The second I saw the picture, I noticed that they used a flipped MacBook Pro image. Notice the dock, menubar, wallpaper, and superdrive. Those are the more obvious, though I did realize the ports at first.
Bad photoshoppers!! (If you even consider that Photoshop work!)
Christina Warren said 9:57PM on 5-20-2008
nice catch! Yes, definitely one for the Bad Photoshoppers blog.
matthew_treder said 11:56AM on 5-21-2008
Since "myriad" is a synonym for "many," it should never be preceded by "a" or followed by "of," as in "a myriad of reasons..."
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