TV ad shooting up an Apple iMac!

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Sciri

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Hey all. Epinions is starting a new Ad campaign and one of the ads has a guy blowing away an Apple iMac at an indoor range. There's a huge controversy over whether or not they should run the ad nationally, so they've made the ad available via RealVideo for anyone to watch before it hits TV screens. Check it out!

http://uberauk.epinions.com/tvad-iMac

He demonstrates proper gun safety, wears eyes and ears, always has the muzzle pointed downrange and he's not enraged in any way. Just a sarcastic guy putting holes in a computer. Rather amusing!

/Sciri/
 
That's friggin' OUTSTANDING!

My gf and her coworker came by just as the video was starting... they both hate iMacs as much as I do, and they're both gun geeks. They laughed their butts off, as did I.

:D :D :D

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Coinneach:
...they both hate iMacs as much as I do...
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Coinneach,

hate? What's to hate?

Joe
 
interesting concept but the cinemagraphy was [L.P. Garnel]really really bad[/L.P. Garnel]

this touches on an idea i had

a catapult and a computer...

in the imac ad the computer didn't blow up really good either

;)

dZ
 
:D :D :D :D Now that's advertising. Wonder when the Beenie Baby add will hit the streets?? Maybe he could do a review of some of our candidates :eek:
 
Sciri,

I dunno... Some things are just too sacred in our society. I received some wary looks when I blew away the pager I told my daughter not to buy.

Personally, I would like to go after cell phones and computers. I like Macs best as PCs are just that--PC--and so much kitsch, but have been working with personal computers with windowing environments since 1982 and have had it with the current rabid commercialization.
 
Numebrs

Oh where to start on the dislike of imacs. Let me think lets start with negative upgrade ability. Then we can go to closed architecture. Then maybe the fact that it is a mac. And then all the silly colors it comes in then maybe the lack of a floppy. Hmmm… one button on the mouse. Forces you to use a GUI. Hmmm…did I mention super ugly (borders on fugly). OH and slow.

I haven't seen the add yet, as my work computer doesn't have speakers, but I'll watch it when Iget home. I have thought about shooting all kinds of Macs through my life. But instead, we are turning an old mac into a fish tank. That would be cooler.

NOTE: didn't mean to offend any imac users out there. There are plenty of PC owners guilty of have silly colored cases now and ugly slow systems. Of course my personal system at home hasn't had a case on it since june, when I bent the frame.

chink

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by chink:
Numebrs

Oh where to start on the dislike of imacs. Let me think lets start with negative upgrade ability. Then we can go to closed architecture. Then maybe the fact that it is a mac. And then all the silly colors it comes in then maybe the lack of a floppy. Hmmm… one button on the mouse. Forces you to use a GUI. Hmmm…did I mention super ugly (borders on fugly). OH and slow.
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Chink,

Your expectation of Pentium III performance and capability out of a computer designed for noncomputer people is really not fair. Maybe if you compared oranges to oranges...Like the new Macintosh G4 machines.

Joe
 
I like my iMac. I use it to get to TFL and other good guy sites and, being the true dinosaur that I am, it hardly hurt at all getting it up and running! Yup, I'm getting pretty damn sophisticated in my old age ....HA!
 
Numbers.

Your point is well taken. The iMac was made for non-computer people.

The G4 is still has the ugly case, close-architecture, still made by apple, and still has that silly 1 button mouse, and is more expensive that a more power PC based machine.

Don't get me wrong. I don't have a problem with Mac users. I just have a problem with machines that over little or no upgradablity and a single source for parts. I'm sure if I was into computer graphics in the early 90's or didn't grow up in the silicon valley and wasn't a geek, I wouldn't have a problem with Macs, but I am a geek and didn't get into computer graphics until PCs became more powerful than Macs.

Macs do have good points, mainly they allow non-technical people a way to use a computer. If you are an more creative than technical, I guess the appears is kinda cool, but alas I am technical and not creative person.

ASIDE: I hate Intel processor also. Haven't personally run an Intel processor since a 386/20. I am currently an AMD guy and would have an Athlon, but spent all my money on guns and ammo. So I only have a K6III 450

garrick


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