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She's cute, but her taste in hardware leaves a lot to be desired.

[Rugby]

well for once I agree with MS, she isn´t cool enough ; ) thanx for the tip I am sure it won´t be shown here in Denmark so...

[loup407]

The funny thing is, the ad agency that created this are mostly on Macs, and those that had to "switch" to PC's to mollify Microsoft are pretty grumpy about losing their Macs.

[Lenjc1957]

fear and loathing in redmond.

[Kyle_Varnell]

I'd rather go over the $1,000 "Budget" and get quality rather than get stuck with Vista, a whole host of viruses and bloatware and a crappy chuck of plastic.

[macdeutsche]

I actually thought it was a good ad, until I realized that she said THAT. PC is okay, not great.

[mslavick]

"Well, Lauren, we here at Best Buy recommend this $40 Monster printer cable because it's, uh, gold-plated and stuff."

[Moebius]

When I watched the video and saw this woman saying that her "requirement" was that the laptop have a 17 inch screen, I immediately dismissed this commercial as contrived. I know of noone but hardcore gamers or developers that "require" a 17 inch screen on a laptop. As a matter of fact, I am a developer and have a 17 inch Windows laptop and I tore muscles when I had to lug it around. I don't find this commercial believable at all.
Oh, and by the way, what is this woman going to do the first time her new Vista machine pops up a UAC prompt or blue-screens? What everyone else does, curse Microsoft.

[polaris20]

It's true, Macs are too cool for us all. I saved all my pennies and bought one anyway, in the hopes that someone would start to think I'm cool. Alas, I failed miserably.
Oh well, at least I still have a virus-free stable computing platform.

[dreyfus]

I assume the heads at Dell, HP, Sony et al are fuming right now. Quite nice when your only OS provider tags you to cheapness and not being cool, while making the big Apple logo the most prominent thing.
Quite encouraging for potential buyers of a Dell Adamo at 3k or a Vaio TT at 4k... or even poor HP trying to sell a 17" laptop for more than 700 bucks from now on.
Showing fear of your competitor and damaging your own customers in paid ads is quite clever.

[poochie]

"This is like a phone."

[fribhey]

so let me get this straight... at the end she says she got just what she wanted BUT she went into an apple store first. that tells me she really wanted a mac but settled on a pc, so she didn't get what she wanted.
that $699 price tag will soon be a lot higher once she calculates in the annual antivirus software subscription and any other software that would make it comparable to a mac (iphoto, imovie, etc).
oh and by the way, i bet the first thing she installed on it was itunes for her ipod :)

[mdawson]

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Clearly, Microsoft?s intention here is to point out to the whole wide world that Macs are too expensive and, really, they would all just be better off with a cheaper PC...

Basically the same disproved crap argument used by the Psystar supporting crowd that have invaded these boards in recent months.