Attacking the Laptop Hunters Ad Attacker
July 16, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Laptops, Ramblings of a Gadget Geek
Seeing Microsoft’s COO Kevin Turner croon about Apple’s legal boys calling him up about the Laptop Hunters Ads, I was reminded of this smug and dismissive rant by cockyjeremy. He typifies the I’m-better-than-you attitude of the Steve Jobs fans club.
I’ve got a few things to say about that!
“It’s a laptop. They’re all portable.” – Try lugging around a 15.4″ laptop!
“Apparently the screen size wasn’t a big factor for her.” – Well, maybe Lauren was smart enough to realize that you need to strike a balance between portability and screen size?
“What is ‘do programs fast’?” – I guess something we tech-savvy people like to call “responsiveness”? You know, like when you launch an app, it launches fast?
“$970? Really?” and “They go way under the price limit…” – Don’t tell me you never tried to save money? Budgets aren’t ironclad you know, especially when you can get something you need for much less than what you allocated.
“For about $150, you can get a 1 terabyte external drive” – Oh, but I prefer having everything right on my laptop. An external hard drive is always a good buy, but not when your anticipating your everyday storage needs around it.
“Vista’s garbage” – No it’s not. Admittedly Microsoft dropped the ball upon Vista’s launch, but the updates made up for that, performance-wise at least. And guess what? If Lauren bought
“You don’t need 10 gigabytes of RAM to run it smoothly.” – Wait wait wait. You do know that the Vista on Lauren’s chosen laptop, can only support a maximum of 3.25GB? So 10GB is kinda pointless.
“I really don’t get what Microsoft is trying to do with these commercials, they’re stupid and they make no sense.” – They’re trying to appeal to a market eager for sweeping yet easy-to-package generalizations. You know, just like the I’m a PC ads.
“At least they had a cute girl in this commercial.” – On this point I agree!
The only point I concede is the Apple’s better battery life. Apple’s laptops do have better battery lives! But that doesn’t make up for the illusion of smugness some of Apple’s customers like giving off.
What is the crap about people fighting over windows and Mac?
I understand the companies fighting each other but are stupid that people that don’t have anything
To do with the companies argue wish one is better.
If you like Mac better that windows or the other way around buy whatever you want an keep pit to Yourself.