> Get real! Nobody is stupid enough to think that John Hodgman really is > a > PC and Justin Long really is a Mac! Are they? "Mac" and "PC" are > caricatures. Cute and funny, too. > > "Lauren" is presented as a "real person" but she's not. She claims, or > her character claims to shop at an Apple Store. She doesn't. "Lauren" > probably doesn't realize that a 17" notebook is hardly portable either. > Our HP notebook is more of a desktop replacement. I wouldn't want to > lug > it around. OTOH, I take my MacBook to meetings and to friends' places > often, but not quite as often since I got the iPod Touch. > > If she had been serious about a notebook she would have looked for a > really portable one, not a desktop replacement that's too big and bulky > to carry around, and too clunky to replace a decent desktop. BTW, ever > see how awful the resolution is on that bargain notebook? She can use > the cash she saved to pay an optometrist and buy glasses.
I was wondering how much more "HEY! LOOK OVER THERE!" we would get out of the Mac camp and lo, I'm not disappointed one bit. The commercial had one, simple premise: if you have a budget of $1,000 and 17" laptop is your target device, you are out of luck with Apple. (That reminds me of the old adage, "If you have to ask the price..."). That's it. Nothing special and gosh, why yes!, they did pick this configuration on purpose to hit Apple, hard, where it lives, in the snobosphere. I think most people could have accepted this and moved on with their lives, but no, we instead get a 4-day Rave of dancing around the facts. *This* is truly E*N*T*E*R*T*A*I*N*I*N*G. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
