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June 13th, 2006

All the new Apple ads have been pretty good — but the new one, “Work vs. Home“, made me laugh out loud. John Hodgman is awesome. I’ve really been enjoying his stint on the Daily Show as “Resident Expert”, and his new-ish book “The Areas of my Expertise” can be picked up used on Amazon for $7, which would be the best $7 you’ve ever spent, my friend. The chapter on hobos is worth it alone.

~jeff

http://joshua.swingpad.com/ Joshua

Does it seem like Mac is getting snarkier?
http://terminally-incoherent.com Luke

I think the PC should one day come to word sporting a beard, wearing jeans and a BSD tshirt.

Then we could do some father and son jokes or something. After all OSX is based on Darwin :P
jimmy

Those ads make my fucking teeth itch.
http://ldopa.net Jeff

Are you sure it’s not your daily breakfast of pure cocaine?

I can see it, though: the guy who plays the mac used to bug me on “Ed” when he played Warren Chesterfield, the “Wesley Crusher” of the Ed universe.
http://www.ldopa.net/ Evan

I have to say this. I really like the Mac… I mean reaaallly. I hate Apple as a company, and I absotively hate Steve Jobs, which will forever stop me from buying a new Mac or wanting to be associated with one. I don’t like the fake marketing veneer Apple has over it’s capitalistic, candy coated, corporate center. Because of their ad campaigns, and marketing I find Apple to be completely full of shit and untrustworthy as a company.
http://artificial.com Jon

Oh Evan, you’re so… Evan.
http://incomplete.net Jon Land

The one thing stopping me from buying the Hodgman book is the supposedly lengthy hobo part. Hobos and robots have has all comedic value beaten out of them for me.
http://ldopa.net Jeff

Ugh, if you don’t love hobos, you’re not going to like my next project then.

But: No robots. It’s also worth it for the failed palindrome section. Also see:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/aafpla/agent12.html
Ben

I thoroughly enjoyed the out of the box one, partially because it’s the first time I’ve heard someone rightfully complain about having demo software oem installed on a new system. What a horrible, ill concieved propaganda corporate conglomerative time wasting viral stupid idea.

I have to say that I approve of what Apple is doing, on the whole. Minus QuickTime. 75MB just to go from 7.1.0.99zzz to 7.1.1? Can’t have iTunes and QuickTime separately? No open source players? Thanks for recreating Windows Media Player, Apple.
http://ldopa.net Jeff

You can always get just QuickTime (no iTunes) here:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html
cauley

I’m late commenting, but I have to say all of these ads make me want to stop using my Mac. They’re just so obnoxious. One can show some of the cool OS stuff in 30 seconds, yes? Why beat a dead stereotype?
Also, that smug fucker does NOT represent me. I’m much taller.
http://joshua.swingpad.com/ Joshua

Have you considered…

HOBOTS?
http://joshua.swingpad.com/ Joshua

Also, Evan… the fuck?
Molly

You fudgeynuts are quite simply tired and jealous. You’re pissed off in the same way you probably gripe about how Urban Outfitters has ganked “your” style. That shit is funny and you are all married and eating it big time.
Waah, look at his hair, ugh.. his shoes and shirt are sooooo obvious. Fuck you motherscratchers! If I catch any one of you corporate dickteeth in the aisles of Target I will beat you bloody with the Method dish soap I’m sure to find in your cart.
Jeff don’t speak no whinese, bitches.
I like the Hobot.
http://www.ldopa.net/ Evan

All, I’m saying is Apple’s gone the way, as far as coporate whoredome goes, of Microsoft. Buy small company, flush, repeat. They need to stop acting like they’re doing something better than the Windows/Intel platform, and really fucking do it. At this point, Apple is really only a hype machine as far as I’m concerned. They might as well change their name to iPod and move the fuck on.
A

Although the new commercials are funny as hell, they are not entirely correct. I’ve worked on both Macs and Windows since the late 90s. My notebook pc I’ve had since 2002 and has been a 10+ hour daily work horse. I never saw the blue screen of death, and crashed much less than my former Macs. I burned through three Macs in four years at my previous job, it was so hindering. Now that Macs can host Windows, why the hell would I spend $500 more for a Mac? I do videos, photos, and my better half has played shows with the PC. It has all the bells and whistles and more than of a Mac. I’ve been to more electronic shows where Macs kept messing in competition with a PC.

Look, Macs are good and are sleeker, but sorry, PCs are way better.