Just when we were starting to think they’d forgotten about them, Apple has posted three new “Get a Mac” television ads:
• Podium: In which PC exhorts the sufferers, “Don’t give up on Vista!”
Direct link via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXcimfzLLoY
• Boxer: Some people just want a computer that’s simple and intuitive, that works they way they do. The ring announcer’s closing quote is an instant classic, “Actually, my brother-in-law just got a Mac and loves it!”
Direct link via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PGusvq70V0
• PR Lady: PC hires PR lady to smooth over Vista disappointment and downplay Mac OS X Leopard in effort to ward off switchers.
Direct link via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzhvByaCEic
Apple’s “Get a Mac” Webpages are here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Macaday” for the heads up.]
The PR lady is a babe. So what, if I need to get out more.
“The Mac leaves you alone unless it actually is important. After all, you have better things to do.”
Sometimes it leaves you a tad too alone. Such as when you try to dismount an external drive… and nothing happens, so you click on its icon in a Finder window and just by doing that pop it disappears… but not its Desktop or Sidebar ones, so you click on its Sidebar icon and it tells you that it can’t find the device even if it still is there, so you wait for ten seconds more or so, until they finally vanish. Finally! So you happily disconnect the drive and ooooops, WARNING: the device wasn’t unmounted properly yadda yadda. Since Tiger it happens to me everytime, every Mac, every second FLASH memory stick.
Windows is too frantic a companion, but Mac OS X is so the silent type sometimes one doesn’t know if it is quiet or it is dead.
Myself, Apple can brag as much as it wants, but two things are clear:
-It actually was really, really afraid of Vista, battle of the eye-candy-wise. There is no other explanation to the incredibly un-Apple-like set of cosmetic UI changes, so many of them so ill-conceived.
-Its graphic design team surely was on crack when they redesigned so many elements to make them or their states undiscernible. Old or bad eye-sighted people will have a real trip with Leopard. Let’s not talk about the general transparency settings everywhere difficulting legibility.
-I shudder when I think of the next tower we are going to purchase when the Penryn Xeons show up. The new Dock is so unnbelievably broken my workflow is going to go straight to the trashcan unless at the very least we get classic Dock menuing back with 10.5.1, and even so…
I don’t feel like laughing too much.
(Well, these were three, wasn’t it? 😀 But I’ve tried Leopard’s Dock, and it will be my death, I tell you)
I feel just the opposite. I like the new transparencies. They did it right this time, not like in the early versions. The new dock looks great, and once you get used to doing things a new way, the stacks are a real time saver. Quick View, what can I say, brilliant. System is snappier, jeez look how fast the apps load now. I love it. Cover flow, works well in many areas, and if you don’t like it, just switch over to the conventional views. Spaces, I have a feeling that this is one thing that is going to grow on a lot of people. No more super cluttered desktops. Bravo Apple. You’ve hit this one out of the ball park.
Never had any problems dismounting external drives, ever. Just drag the icon off the desktop to the trash, and you’re good to go!
Don’t see any problem with the new dock functionality. A right click on the icon gives you the old way if you must have it. Everybody was griping about the old dock, so they changed it. I like it better.
It’s not a podium! It’s a Lectern!
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