Monday, January 29, 2007

The UK gets those rubbish Mac/PC adverts

Including the AMAZING HUGE LIE about PCs needing to be restarted and Macs never needing to be restarted. This is just a lie. Plain and simple. Macs crash. In our experience more than PCs.

Get a Mac (DO NOT EVER GET A MAC)

Get a Mac. Get a smug look on your smug face, despite the fact you've just paid twice as much money for a less versatile piece of hardware because it comes in a whiter box.

And thanks for ruining The Peep Show.

OH YEAH, AND HERE'S THE LINK:
Get a Mac (NOT OUR ADVICE)

60 Comments:

Blogger El GoFo said...

Yeah! non-clickable video! That's what i'm talking about!

12:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The hilarious thing is, David Mitchel is far less of a twat than Webb.

Buy a Mac, be a thick twat obsessed with image! yeah!

12:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The hilarious thing is, David Mitchel is far less of a twat than Webb.

Buy a Mac, be a thick twat obsessed with image! yeah!

12:59 PM  
Blogger phorenzik said...

I'm terribly confused by this post. How can you compare Political correctness to a kagool? My rain coat has never needed to be restarted. I wouldn't even know where to begin if it ever did need to be restarted. I only wear it because it's long enough to cover my naked body when i'm out in the park*



*wanking in the bushes

1:07 PM  
Blogger Richard said...

I like the way it seems to claim that you can't edit movies, do a podcast and make photo albums on a pc.

Some good lying all round, there.

1:37 PM  
Blogger Mark said...

They're just all so WRONG. It makes me cross.

1:44 PM  
Blogger bilal said...

you bastards had me running your site in IE thinking that non-clickable video was a firefox problem

macs are cooler though, but that's just cos less people use them.

i like macs though, but more as a curiosity than something i'd actually want.

piracy's much easier on pc's for a start

2:14 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Using a mouse to point at icons on a screen is easier on a PC, too. As is looking at a list of files.

2:17 PM  
Blogger Cyberfyn said...

I've often though of getting a Mac. I like the creamy white colour as it might not show the "stains" quite as much as much as the Dell black.......

2:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If these idiots would at least have the brains to enable these videos in WMV or something. "Get Quicktime!" NO! I WON´T GET QUICKTIME because I hated it everytime I got it. If they really want me to "change", why should I need to download some weird-ass player I´ll never use again just to watch those damn commercials?

And besides, a friend got a Mac recently and everytime he´s got a problem noone can help him because nobody knows how Macs work. All I can think of when I see a Mac is the weird way you eject a CD (I looked for a button for 5 minutes), this shitty one-button mouse (just because they are too stubborn to go with the times) and those annoying bouncing symbols.

Fuck yeah, I hate Macs, but for far better reasons than people hate windows. And if you REALLY want to be different, you just use Linux. Oh, it doesn´t come in a creamy white box with buttons and windows covered in vaseline? Too bad. Macs are for show-offs.

2:39 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

For those who still don´t know the Change-commercial parody, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CrQjfgvqJQ

2:43 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"All I can think of when I see a Mac is the weird way you eject a CD (I looked for a button for 5 minutes), this shitty one-button mouse...blah blah blah"

troll says what?

you need to learn more about things before you go and spout off, man i really hate 10 year olds...go back to spewing your trash on the xbox 360 you idiot

3:59 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yay! We got our first non-ironic American complainer! In record time, too.

4:19 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So good, worth repeating a third time:
===
The hilarious thing is, David Mitchel is far less of a twat than Webb.

Buy a Mac, be a thick twat obsessed with image! yeah!

4:41 PM  
Blogger Halverde said...

Isn't that just repeating it a second time?

4:49 PM  
Anonymous spongle said...

I used to spend hours watching the Mac pizza/beachball of death decide whether to crash my last hour's work or not.

So Macs can do pointless swooshy window things that you'll want to turn off after the first hour. Yay! Deffo worth the massive extra cost

Macs: only appealing until you actually have to work to a deadline on one.

5:00 PM  
Anonymous JimJams said...

Regarding the twattiness of Mitchell v Webb - funnily enough it's the same with the original adverts. John Hodgman, who plays the PC, is the genius who wrote The Areas Of My Expertise, while Justin Long, the Mac, is exactly the kind of irritating whiny git who really does use a Mac.

PS. I use a Mac but I don't do any real work on it, I just use it as a screensaver and paperweight, and to make women think I have a sensitive and caring side.

5:13 PM  
Blogger jawa said...

a mac gave me aids.

5:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A horde of macs raped my village and stole our harvest. It was a real nuisance.

6:11 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

its simple really macs are shit,

first u have spend shit loads of money to get what is a fairly standard PC.

then u have to spend loads on software cos there are no cracks.

then the mainboard goes and apple want £700 to fix it but the computer is now only worth £400 quid.

£700 quid to fit another motherboard? what the fuck r they on? that same repair will cost you a 10th of the price on a PC.

PS I have OSX on this PC, I don use it to do anything other that piss off mac users who go on and on about how good their duplo OS is

6:49 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Someone should sell Mac and iPod voodoo dolls and make some money off all this bottled-up hatred. Maybe fill them with blood. Or a microchip so they scream.

7:30 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My employers have bought so heavily into the Mac lifestyle that they would look right twats if they considered buying into Windows - so I have to spend all day trying to find mac compatable versions of programs that understand how to open half the bloody files clients send me whilst they dribble over the new issue of 'maclife' and try to justify spending a fuckfull of money on mediocre laptops!

9:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I went to school with Robert Webb in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. Twat then, Twat now. Just richer. Bah.

9:11 PM  
Blogger jawa said...

hitler used a mac.

9:39 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've just watched all 6 and God do I hate Macs now.
Before I used windows because it seemed like the sensible choice.
If you want to run mostly commercial software (which I do), you use the OS that businesses write desktop software for. Rather than say amiga/mac/vxworks/whatever.
Just like if you want to run mostly open source software (a reasonable choice). You use the OS that people write open source software for, ie linux.

Not any more though. Now I use windows because I hate Apple.
I hate them for bare-facedly lying about crashes.
I hate them for suggesting that windows is for boring work stuff, unlike macs. In the SAME series of adverts where they point out that they both run MS Office.
I hate them most of all because they've made me fear that an advert with a smug git in matters more in most people's minds than the truth.

10:04 PM  
Anonymous gravy said...

Even the people who work at Apple use windows. They know the score!

Now stop being whiney cunts and admit PCs are better, whether windows or Linux under the bonnet. Macs have slightly more brag value if you can find the right kind of people to brag to (i.e. ones that can't work computers)

11:00 PM  
Anonymous mang said...

MACINTOSH: Machine Always Crashes, If Not, The OS Hangs.

Apart from that Macs suck big fat festering donkey cock.

Given the choice between being the dude in the smart suit, and the whiney Will Young-alike playing pocket billiards while he ogles bouncing OS X icons, I know who I'd rather be.

11:28 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can't we all just get along?

12:01 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A Mac once shat in my underpant drawer.

It did.

really.

1:28 AM  
Anonymous munky said...

I once used a Mac with a two-button mouse and hated it, purely because it was one less thing to hate about Macs.

8:59 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just checked with my Unazukin.

Are mac owners smug twats?

emphatic yes

Are these the most annoying ads in the world?

yes

Will you use your contacts in the world of the dead to make sure mac users suffer horribly?

emphatic yes.


zmuzka

10:23 AM  
Blogger jawa said...

Macs are the bane of all existence. If the world didn't have Macs then there would be peace in the middle east. There would be no pollution. People would matter-transport to work and everyone would enjoy frequent sex with their 10 wives. Life would be complete and there would be no need to stay up till 4am on a Friday night ham fisting your man-meat at lolita porn and weeping hot shameful tears onto the PC keyboard all the while cursing the very existence of Apple.

10:46 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I miss the old days when life was innocent and we talked about photocopiers and thing-holding and guilt-free wanking. But then Apple came along with its trendy young computers and tore us apart and now here we are. "Hot shameful tears" indeed. I thought we were strong enough to weather a crisis like this. Where did it all go so wrong?

1:03 PM  
Anonymous The Wiggist said...

Macs are terrible. We all know it, so let's just get it out there in the open. They are over priced, stupidly animated, feature poor lumps of tosh. I find the only thing that a Mac is any good for is holding down a small>medium pile of papers in a light breeze. Failing that, they are useless. Having been designed for the Norf Laandan massiv, with their square glasses and fat (phat?) tie knots they love 'em. To the rest of us, who don't feck about all day polishing our powerbooks in the bog at lunchtime to prepare for a meeting later with some sort of wanky 'brand consultant', they're shite.

2:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My PC might be a bit shit and long in the tooth now, but at least it can play .WMV and .MPGs without the display turning into a blank green box like when those shitty Quicktime movies are on. Actually I take that back about my PC. It's fucking great. After watching the first of those awful adverts, it refused to show the others, thus saving me from watching some of the most smug and annoying bullshit commercials I'm ever likely to see in my life. My PC HAS A SENTIENT LIFE! FUCK ON THAT YOU USELESS MAC COMPUTERS.

2:14 PM  
Anonymous bluseychris said...

As much as I hate to say this, it's evident you've never looked at the range of Mac's it advertises.

They're all on the same Intel DC tech that the PC's are running. MacOS and Windows only really differ on the simplicity and software compatability area now, certainly now Windows is copying the OSX interface...which came out about 5/6 years ago. Hell if 5 year olds can "share" music microsoft can "share" other peoples designs. Infact the only real MS and OSX difference nowadays is the amount of virus' Windows can be infected with. And most people have a decent antivirus so that still isn't a problem.

Mac vs PC is like comparing Windows 98 to MacOS 8.1 - Old, irrellavent and pointless.

2:29 PM  
Anonymous Mr. Fatuous said...

Watch out! Somebody just threw themselves in front of the hate train.

2:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think someone's missed a key point - mac owners are, of course, all smug twats.

Without exception.


hzekm. 59 google hits, beat that mac users.

2:48 PM  
Anonymous JimJams said...

I'm beginning to get the sneaking suspicion that everyone here is, in fact, a Mac user.

3:04 PM  
Anonymous Richiebob said...

Yes, yes, all well and fine, BUT without Mac there would be no ipod. With no ipod, no ipod docks, skins, earbuds, scintellating ipod vs zune discussion and lets not forget the end-all-be-all: iphone.

And without Mac and therefore ipod, I'd have to go back to stealing peoples money. The ipod is much more liquid.

3:19 PM  
Anonymous The Wiggist said...

The hate train gathers unstoppable momentum...

As for the iPod, iPhone and all the rest of that tosh Steve Jobs turns out, lets put it all onto a ship ans then sink it in a very deep part of the ocean. The uber-smugness of the Apple types is astonishing. 'Hey, we've just made a phone that can browse the net, play music and has a touch sensetive screen'. Well, that would be a huge achievment, if SonyEricsson hadn't been doing it for 2 years, in an un-wanky design that didnt look like it would be scratched by anything in your pocket. Oh, but then if you've got an iPhone you'd have one of those gay belt clips to show all the other Mac fuckwits how cool you are...

3:49 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Its "Peep Show" not "The Peep Show"

6:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They just lie. Like Sony.

Apple and Sony are in bed with each other. You'll see Macs with Blu-ray soon....

3:01 AM  
Anonymous ben said...

They made the PC charismatic, and the Mac laconic and smug. I know which one I'd invite home ...

I think this campaign will backfire in the UK. The transparent lying won't help them much either.

8:19 AM  
Blogger jawa said...

Bring back beige boxes

11:33 AM  
Anonymous Steve "Big" Jobs said...

Apple/Mac hatred has got to be _the_ best thing about The Idiot Toys.

What I hate about Apple is that people go on about them like they are some sort of global creative force for good/hippie commune when in fact they could teach Microsoft a thing or two about vendor lock in, built in obsolescence and fleecing the customer. In fact Jobs makes Gates look like Gandhi by comparison.

I've never really forgiven Apple for forcing Adobe to drop the SGI versions of Photoshop and Illustrator because "Boo Hoo people might buy SGIs instead of Macs"

And yes Intel Macs still crash just like their 68K and PowerPC predecessors.

4:34 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To everyone using a PC, thinking they are having a better experience than a Mac user I say:

Cary the fuck on. Please, keep your PCs, keep using them. Continue to believe Macs are shit.

I ended up with a 24" iMac and it has been the single most important digital 'thing' that's ever happened to me.

However, I implore you, stick with your PC and Microsoft OS. You'll be fine.

6:26 AM  
Anonymous Steve "Big" Jobs said...

Hu-hu He Said 'Digital Thing'...

7:43 AM  
Anonymous The Wiggist said...

Watch out Mr 24' iMac, here comes the train....

10:12 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, Mac-lover, it's MUCH more important to be able to make funny little faces in the webcam than actually play any games or use popular applications, isn't it?

11:01 AM  
Blogger StarKillar said...

Hmm, saw these adverts at the bus stop, kept me chuckling for a while - although I was imagining the smug looking 'mac' bloke being replaced by an old bearded fellow with multi-colored-puke-clash clothing and a tinfoil hat... would work with the 'Think Different' catch line too :)

Had horrible experiences with macs & pc's btw, but at least no pc company (to my knowledge) have to slag off other types of computer to try and sell them... mind you even if they did... bloke in suit Vs Chav would work quite well ;)

1:55 PM  
Anonymous Sturdy fella said...

I've worked on Macs and I've worked on PCs. Even on UNIX. And its all work. Work work work. All I do is work. I hate ALL computers. Idiot toys.

And why can't you people just agree a little, for once? My parents are divorced and I can't stand disagreements. It makes me nervous and make me want to work even more. I'm going to end it all by running an USB cable up my nose or something.

4:34 PM  
Anonymous Mikey said...

USB? Come on man - have some love for yourself. Get some firewire.

10:56 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was at college with Robert Webb. He is, as others have said, a twat. I wonder if his wife knows how much cock he had while he was there. David Mitchell's ok.

10:26 PM  
Blogger dw2k6 said...

who let all these bastard yanks in?

5:14 PM  
Blogger dw2k6 said...

Charlie Brooker had a good article about these adverts.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2006031,00.html

Its true, Macs are for smug, preening tossers.

2:42 PM  
Anonymous fayre said...

i'm reading from work and the tech dept won't allow me to install quicktime, so i can't watch the commercial. lucky me.

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