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Interview with John Hodgman, the PC from those "Get a Mac" ads | |
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| Time: 18:48 EST/23:48 GMT | News Source: Engadget | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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Yup, we interviewed that guy. But John Hodgman isn't just a metaphorical stand-in for the PC (even though that's what we mainly asked him about), he's also an editor at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the Daily Show. Read on to find out whether he's really a PC user, Microsoft's attempts to recruit him, and how he got the gig in the first place. | ||
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| #1 By 10022 (69.204.110.203) at 10/5/2006 8:01:39 PM |
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Lucky for Apple I dont run Microsoft- I would destroy them for these commercial.
These commercials show that Apple has not bother to look at what Microsoft has done since Windows 98, let alone Windows XP Guess what Apple, I have had ONE BSOD on XP in the now 6 years that I have been using it. I have personally seen less BSOD on Windows XP and 200 combined in the same time on all the systems that I have dealt with (and of course the vast majority of them are Windows) that I have with OS X (since 10.2- which was the first time I saw that pice of crap - and I used to like the original MacOS) OS is the most unstable thing I have ever seen- even on your own hardware this thing crashes like crazy- I once opened Graphing Calc on a G5 iMac (noth else even loaded, certianly no drivers becuase you guy dont need drivers right (of course you do, you just dont have to install them becuase you control the hardware and they are already installed). The stupid thing crashed, not just crashed, but a Kernel Panic. The other problem that I like, this seemed to happen alot with 10.3.x, is when the computer reboots into Darwin/OpenFirmware because the GUI wont load for some reason- yeah that must be fun for some non-tech user who will not understand what a command line is. (I usually just re-image or re-install when this happens) have you fixed the beach ball of death yet? YOu know, when you click on somethign and you get that fancy little colored beach ball pointer that just keeps going and going untill you force shutdown the computer? I dont knwo what I like more, the beach ball of death or the even more occurring mini-beach ball of death which seem to happen at times where Window swould be retrieving something from cache- this nice little porblem make you wait 10+ seconds for a window to open or an item to be selected - this is really fun. The cool, innovative Apple is dead- and I bet you as soon as they can they are going to dump OS X all and switch to Windows - making apps for dumb users is what they seem to be good at, they can do that and make more money selling expensive hardware bundled with a Mac style GUI running on top of Windows - hell Vista is already more Mac than Mac is now- just change the color scheme and who would know? |
| #2 By 53756 (67.86.67.13) at 10/5/2006 10:36:24 PM |
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Mac...Microsoft...blah. functionality and reliability are all that matters, eye candy gets old. i prefer a PC because i can easily control it and customize it. i have NEVER seen the "blue screen of death" on my 64bit Dell at work, or on my 32bit Compaq laptop at home. ....my laptop has just suddenly turned off a few times, but overclocking will cause that to happen.
i need to also add that even though i prefer a PC, i still think THE MAC ADS ARE GREAT!!! they make me laugh!!! :) ...and not a lot of things do that these days. besides, us PC hackers have been making "blue screen of death" jokes for years now, why can't other people? don't take it so personally. Microsoft should keep focusing on making their OS better. i really wish they'd give the user more control to STRIP the OS of features during and after an install. that would improve both performance and security at the same time. ...it's like killing three birds with one stone. the current functionality to customize Windows is a joke. stop treating us like children. checkout what LitePC did. Microsoft should BUY THOSE FUCKERS. i'm sure it'd be free. anywayz, nebdy that is annoyed by Mac ads needs to get a life. it's just a joke. enjoy the laugh! it IS based on a reality we already joke and complain about. This post was edited by brien86 on Thursday, October 05, 2006 at 22:40. |
| #3 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 10/6/2006 4:35:40 AM |
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I think #1, is rightly fired up. It is tiring to continually here the utter nonsense held out by Apple's marketing arm. Short of a few specific hardware failure types, which have nothing to do with Windows, most people have not seen a Windows system failure in a very long time.
There are also a great many superb PC designs, so the idea that Apple makes better looking hardware is just bunk. And as for being fun, well.. most Windows PC's in the home are used primarily to entertain. As creative as the ads may be, they are intended to offend and strike up in a PC user a sense of inferiority - while over simplifying what an Apple based system is. In reality, they end up offending both user groups, but shouldn’t. One should simply take them for what they are [funny], and not for what they are not [the truth]. All that said, the ads are funny, creative and were for a time, fresh. When that is played out they'll do something else. I just hope what they do will be a bit more honest – with themselves. |
| #4 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 10/6/2006 9:22:57 AM |
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#1 & 3,
I guess the 200-400 service tickets I work a month are a figment of my imagination then. I must be in a coma, only dreaming about all the spyware removals, registry damage, IE failures and other such minor nuisances. I guess I should wake up so I can enjoy this picture-perfect Windows world you guys speak of! TL |
| #5 By 21203 (208.252.96.220) at 10/6/2006 1:24:10 PM |
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I think the Mac ads are great because they are nostalgic -- they make me laugh because they would've been perfect for 1995.
#4 -- so for the 10 service tickets you get a day, are you completely unable to administer your systems appropriately? I mean -- cmon, I can get linux/MacOS/BSD/Solaris to blow up marvelously due to poor administrative doctrine too, it doesn't mean the OS is, at it's core, bad/wrong/buggy. Users are the inherent problem with computers. A stupid person in front of a great computer with root access can and will blow up the machine. How do you fix that? Lose the access, or train the user. That paradigm is completely portable to any OS. |
| #6 By 3746 (71.19.41.232) at 10/6/2006 2:03:13 PM |
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#5
I agree - i support a number of offices and businesses and I can only think of the odd time I had to clean up a virus or adware infection in the last 2 years. Proper administration, security, and training goes a long way to reducing if not stopping these things. But i agree the user is the weak point and if someone tries hard enough they will be able to damage or infect any system. |
| #7 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 10/7/2006 12:44:01 AM |
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Amazingly REALISTIC apple ad here...
http://www.techworld.com/security/features/index.cfm?featureID=2856&pagtype=all |
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