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Posted on: September 27, 2008 7:09 PM, by Greg Laden

It has been a while since I've updated you on the latest very important technology movies. If you are PC, don't bother watching. You won't like any of these They are below the fold.

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I'm getting ready to convert to the Mac world after nearly two decades in the Windows world. Sure, I know how to de-crapify a PC too.

I don't mind XP all that much, it seems stable enough and doesn't piss me off too much. However all that changed when Vista came out and I started using Access 2007. I now curse the Microsoft name.

I've also bought two new i-products, a 16GB iPod Touch and a 32GB Touch. Sweet little devices but all that advanced stuff like 802.11g tends to run the battery down pretty fast. I'm sure as battery technology improves those figures will too.

I like the Mac v. PC ads, they're very simple and clever. And the take-off ad of the PS3 v. Wii is extremely funny.

Posted by: Tony P | September 28, 2008 1:27 AM

My university laptop runs on XP. Right now I'm running it in "safe mode" until I can take my laptop to tech support (for the fourth time). If I don't run it in safe mode, my browser shuts down or won't even start. A virus got by Symantec and buried itself somewhere so deep in the guts of the machine that it can't be crowbarred out. Verdict: Tomorrow tech will swap out my hard drive. Next summer, when my laptop is routinely replaced, I'm requesting a Mac. Also, as far as my own computer purchases, it's time to replace my daughter's laptop. We'll be swapping a Windows machine for a Mac.

Posted by: Elf Eye | September 28, 2008 9:30 AM

Frankly, I don't like these "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" movies. They are fun, but untrue.

I'm using Windows since the days of WinNT. And I have not seen BSODs for years now. I also don't run ANY antivirus/antimalware stuff and I don't have any viruses. And I'm far more productive in Windows, mostly because I do not use the craptacular Explorer (I use FAR Manager instead).

I also created my own small Linux distribution and wrote several small kernel drivers for our devices. I use Linux at my company (because I did not want to pay money for Vista), so it's not like I don't know it.

Posted by: Alex Besogonov | September 28, 2008 12:45 PM

The lesson of the Mac-PC ads?

If you want to be cool and hip, you use a Mac. If you want to do any of those nerd-like things, like actually using software to do something productive that people actually use computers for, than clearly you are only worthy of a PC, you worthless uncool scum.

Posted by: KeithM | September 29, 2008 7:23 PM

Keith, this fits with the Office-runs-beautifully-on-Macs version of the ad how?

Posted by: Stephanie Z | September 29, 2008 10:55 PM

I don't like the "you are a cool person if you use Mac" theme, either. Though I am cool, I know it has nothing to do with my computer (or any merchandise) of choice! I don't like the distrubition of "if you own this, you are a better person" idea. Too much explicit materialism for me.

Posted by: Betul | September 29, 2008 11:27 PM