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New Get a Mac ads: Pizza Box, Throne, Calming Teas


Tonight, Apple posted three new "Get a Mac" ads: Pizza Box, Throne and Calming Teas. In the Pizza Box ad, PC tries to lure college students into buying a PC by advertising as free pizza. PC notes that Mac is the number one selling computer on college campuses.

In Throne, PC notes that he is "still the king" of the OS world and then goes on to banish Mac. In Calming Teas, PC markets a new tea that calms Vista users instead of fixing the many problems with Windows. These Get a Mac ads seem to be geared towards back to school buyers and are amusing to watch (especially the Pizza Box ad).


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Mike

Love the pizza box one and the 'calming teas'. Are they true? Who cares, they're funny!

My personal favorite is the 'choose a vista' one from last year. Who the heck at Microsoft thought is was a good idea to come out with that many versions?! It's hard on them to develop and very confusing to users.

Just ask my mother, who nearly got a 'basic' version pushed on her at Best Buy that wouldn't even have come with the 'fancy' Aero interface, lucky she called to consult me.

August 22 2008 at 9:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jack jack

The calming teas one is AWESOME. We saw it while watching the football game with about 25 people and every one was cracking up. We run a PC repair site and wish we could order these for our customers.

August 21 2008 at 3:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jacque Denise Yap

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August 19 2008 at 3:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kev Orng

The Calming Tea one seems to be a pre-emptive response to whatever ads will emerge from the Mojave experiment. You know, the one where they distract people who aren't computer savvy with Vista's eye-candy to make them forget the bad things (real or imagined) that they've heard from others.
But that being said, my wife is a PC user, works in IT, and after a number of Vista-induced hair pulling sessions at work, she is now one of those computer-savvy types who makes sure that family members are wary of Vista. The people who have had no problem with Vista should try integrating a Vista system into a large, mostly XP corporate network. She had hoped that SP1 would smooth it out, but it didn't.

On another note, I'm really kind of bored of this ad series, I think it's too negative, but the "come eat me, I'm a delicious pizza" line is brilliant.

August 19 2008 at 11:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mSiqueira

"PC markets a new tea that calms Vista users instead of fixing the many problems with Windows"

Yeah, talk abbout fixing many problems...

In my case, I just gave up all that 2.X.X s**t from iPhone and restoring to the venerable XP (ops, 1.1.4, sorry), cause I just have to make some calls sometimes, you know...

As for my MB, boot camp defaults to Vista for almost a month now. My Leopard just don't want to run Firefox3 (and my doctor just ordered me to leave drugs for once, so I'll stay away from that Must-Not-Be-Named browser)...
Counting three machines with Vista Ultimate, since earlier RC2, with not single one crash till now.

Lastly, I'm glad that I haven't even try that MobileMeek flop...

All for all, QUALITY really seems to stand for quality of marketing (sic) nowadays.

August 19 2008 at 9:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nate

You mean it's free for you if we click and respond to your offers. Umm...no thanks. Besides, just about everyone and their mom has one (at least my mom does anyway, since I got her one for C'mas).

This comes across as spam ... try to bring this pyramid scheme to your friends and family instead of here.

August 19 2008 at 5:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rickumus

Lame... These spots jumped the shark last year..... Vista never crashes either... I've had Leopard crash way more often... Apple's 15 minutes are almost up.... Yada yada yada...

August 19 2008 at 5:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Sir. Poopy Pants

Funny. I've been running leopard since basically launch and I've never experienced a kernel panic. I've had apps crash of course, but those crashes never locked up or interfered with the system at all.

August 19 2008 at 9:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tim

The videos won't load for me. Hopefully, that means I get to eat lunch with John Hodgeman free...

August 19 2008 at 2:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Tim

I feel like an idiot. Turns out I had Adblock on, and of course it sees Apple videos as ads...

August 19 2008 at 5:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
john russell

The "Eat me" line was the best. The bath salts weren't bad either. I think they also should have had "Banishèd" for that Shakespearean flair.

August 19 2008 at 2:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Al

Lame! Just like Mac's and Apple fanboys.
Apple should try to give out an OS that has to run on unlimited number and unpredicted configurations, like Vista has to, then people can judge. Not now that they make an OS optimized for a very limited number of machines that they make and they are even afraid of supporting more configurations(Like Psystart case).

August 19 2008 at 1:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Darren

There aren't an "unlimited number" of configurations. Microsoft defines the PC platform specs; the PC manufacturers build to the spec. If they meet Microsoft's specification they get a "Made for Vista" sticker.

It's not that much different from Apple, only Apple has more control over manufacturing and is able to push more ambitious hardware capabilities out the door faster, with immediate and rock-solid OS support. The PC ecosystem isn't nearly as coordinated.

August 19 2008 at 2:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
James

Err, running on limited configurations is the entire point. Apple aren't saying Mac OS X is the better OS on PCs, they're saying Mac OS X is better because it's on a Mac.

The problem with Psystar is that they have broken copyright and are selling cracked software. Now even if Psystar were to win, something I'm not all against - but not all for, I still wouldn't buy one of their machines or another's clone because Apple would lose money (OS X degrade in quality) and because Psystar stole pc_efi without acknowledging the author.

August 19 2008 at 2:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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