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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
I saw one two nights ago where they're strapping a webcam onto the PC's head and Mac smugly points out that Mac laptops and iMacs have webcams built into them and PC sulks off, as if this is the most unbelievably amazing thing anyone has ever heard of. That's simply not true, as I'm sitting in front of a PC laptop with a webcam built in. Sony makes them. Toshiba makes them. Dell makes them. It's not a big deal. The plug and play commercial is the same way. That kind of nonsense just doesn't happen on computers anymore.
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Wasn't Apple the first to have an integrated video camera?
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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
As far as I can tell "PC guy" represents a Windows 95 computer running a 286 with 128 megs of RAM. It's not that it's not a "fair" representation, because why be fair to your competitor? It's that it's a blatantly untrue representation. Mac DOES do some things better than MS or PCs in general. The stupid shit they throw out in their advertisements are not those things. Presenting dated stereotypes as fact with a smug smirk does not a sharp commercial make.
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Well, let's break this down. I'll choose a few commercials:
1) Mac DOES allow plug and play with most digital cameras, printers, camcorders, mp3 players. No drivers required.
2) Mac DOES come with programs that are not 60 day trials or anything like that. It's all there, and it's all yours.
3) My Mac hasn't frozen in 4 years. My PC at work freezes at least 4-5 times a week (and I use it less).
4) There are no virusus that can effect OS X. There are plenty for Windows, be it 95, 98, XP, etc.
5) The software that comes with a Mac, be it iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, etc. all make it easy right out of the box.