Oh Betty...where were your calls for disservice during the i'm a mac/i'm a pc ads from Apple? Please.
She is representing a person, unlike some here, who have to work with something called a 'budget'. I know all the mac heads drive around in their Bentley's and put their nose up at those who can only afford a toyota or heaven forbid...*gasp* a Hyundai. Some of us actually have to consider the prices of things, we can't merely choose what we want and walk to the register and plunk down any old amount the vendor pleases. We get the best we can afford for what we need to do. Tom's answer in an earlier email was to skip a portable and get the imac for her to use *as* a portable. So his mac mind says buy a mac at any price no matter what. Very smart decision. This is where mac people get the perception of elitism and snobbery. I'm not cool enough for a mac because I'm not willing to fork over all my dough...and take out a loan..and borrow money from friends..and parents..just to get a mac. That said, the Apple ads are much better. On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:24 AM, b_s-wilk <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wonder if this Lauren was and always has been a Windows user in > > the first place? An office manager? Sounds like Windows to me! > > Obviously she has never had a Macintosh, and did not even like or > > appreciate Macs. She proved that by her comments about not being > > "cool enough." Looks to me as though folks who desired a Windows > > machine to begin with were tapped to pose as laptop shoppers for these > > ads. > > > I think they [M$/Ballmer] do a disservice to both PC and Mac users by > having "Lauren" say, "not cool enough". Sure Macs are cool, but you use what > works best for you. I think the new Toshiba notebooks look very good/cool, > and they were the first to have titanium laptops too, not Apple. My friend > has a super-powered Superman Alien notebook that he uses for gaming, ah, > working--very nice toy. > > You can be cool and use a peecee. You can be a dork and use a Mac. > > Lauren is an actress [and a model?] who's appealing to those who are too > lazy to figure out what's a good computer for them, or which is really the > best value in the long run -- the Mac or the PC. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
