Steve Ellenoff wrote:

> Since I've been TIVO'ing for a long time, I seldom catch commercials

> these days, but I happened to be watching live tv and caught (what I

> assume is) a fairly new ad where the Mac & PC guy are talking about

> Vista, with the Vista wheel of choices!

>

> I laughed my head off, not so much because the ad was all that funny,

> but rather, at how perfectly the ad captures the essence of what I

> consider to be the "other" major Vista debacle. I stated a long time

> ago what a completely moronic move it was to offer so many confusing

> choices for Vista by MS, and I simply love the fact that the geniuses

> doing the Mac marketing caught onto the situation and turned it into

> yet another brilliant commercial bashing the pc. In fact, the entire

> series of ads featuring these two guys has been absolutely brilliant

> in my opinion, some of the smartest and most clever advertising done

> in a long time.

>

> Did anyone else see this Vista bashing ad and think it was as terrific as I do?

>

> FWIW - I'm not a Mac guy, never owned one, and only very recently

> considered doing so. I just happen to apprecaite all the 'valid'

> points the Mac campaigns have been raising lately.

>

I just wonder how effective these commercials are for Mac, though?

Sure, they're hilarious, but do they really have any other impact than

comedy?

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