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Microsoft’s New Commercial: Windows is a Generic Equivalent to OS X

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Microsoft’s moving ahead with more commercials in its “I’m a PC” series, one of which it’s posted at a section of Windows.com called Laptop Hunters. Let’s watch, shall we? Can’t argue with the truth of the basic gist here: There are tons of well-equipped Windows notebooks under a thousand bucks, and only one Mac laptop option, [...]

OLPC’s Creepy and Inappropriate John Lennon Ad

Monday, December 29, 2008

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The One Laptop Per Child Foundation has a new spokesman for its XO “$100 laptop.” He’s admired the world ’round, and isn’t someone you associate with product endorsements–in part because he’s been dead for close to three decades. He’s John Lennon, and he promotes the XO through a voice over done by a (not very [...]

The Twelve Weird Old Electronics Commercials of Christmas

Thursday, December 25, 2008

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I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m kind of addicted to watching old TV commercials on YouTube. Especially ones involving computers and electronics. And today, I have an excuse to share a bunch of them with you, in no particular order. 1. Mattel Electronics, early 1980s. Hal “Otis the Town Drunk” Smith plays a Santa who [...]

A Brief Reverse-Chronological YouTube History of Apple

Thursday, August 14, 2008

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The history of Apple is so long and interesting that some amazingly weighty tomes have been written about it. But I don’t think you need to pore over hundreds of pages to get the gist of the company’s journey. Actually, more than with any other computer company, its advertising tells much of the story. And [...]