New Microsoft Ad Shows How PCs Are Always Cheaper Than Macs

What do you expect? That's like comparing a Yugo to a Viper! When you have got the best, you have to pay for it. Some of you may have noticed that the Vista system looks a whole lot like OSX! One of my friends has actually made her Vista desktop look just like mine and I have a Macbook Pro. Ain't that a blip!

One more thing that most people fail to realize is that Apple makes the operating system and the hardware! Microsoft just makes the software to run it!

Microsoft has the worst advertising department in the world. Another commercial that means absolutely nothing. Just like the "I'm a PC" commercial..wtf? The reason it's cheaper than a MAC is because she probably got a virus on it the minute she hooked it up to the internet.

mikemaj is the man man. he said what i don't have to. bill gates is a virus. he redirects his porn surfing to all of our IPs so we are left with the (pun named) trojans. !

Look Reg, Apple DOES NOT make the hardware. Intel does, and if you look, you will see that you are paying much more for the same product. Apple requests different SKU's for products that Intel currently produces just to create teh appearance of a difference. In the real world, thos parts are the same, and they perform the same tasks. The "HOW" is different. Apple charges you a premium because you simply are willing to pay that premium. Just be honest about it. BTW, I have a MAC friend, and he made his OSX desktop look like my Vista desktop, and that proves what? Mike, hey, if she did get a virus, it could be removed, unlike the SAD MAC or silly bomb icons.

Buy the Mac. You can always buy vmware or parallels desk top, the PC operating system, and have TWO computers (a good Mac and a pc) for the price of one!

I say to any and all who might read this post "Go with the MAC". It might be more expensive at the outset but you will save down the line. My MAC laptop that I bought 5 years ago STILL works perfectly and while I have upgraded to an even newer model last year and purchased an iMAC for my home office I have saved over the long run in spades. NO virus' have infected any of my laptops or desktop MAC's and any small problems I have had have been taken care of at the MAC store without a problem. Now, compare this to my friend who bought a PC desktop and laptop and two weeks into both had numerous problems with the software and hardware respectively, had to bring both into Bestbuy to be checked, and then was told that her warranty DIDN'T fully cover the issue THIS after being sold an extended warranty of sorts. She went through months of phone calls and servicing visits. She might have spent $800 but it had cost her more than $3,500 in waste of time and loss of work opportunities. I'm LEN and I'm a MAC - YOU can keep YOUR PC!

Buy the mac. I bought a PC in August of 2007 my high school graduation. By May of 2008 it was totally dead. I bought a mac the following June and it is still working in perfect condition. My whole family has switched to mac because they last longer. Sure, $700 for a PC is cheaper than $1000 for a mac, but you'll spend that $700 two or three times more before you need to even buy a new battery for your mac. Macs are the best!

So she's buying a laptop based on look and feel and not software... That means that if Apple made a laptop for $699, she would be buying that. Microsoft is basically advertising HP in this commercial instead of Windows. She is looking at the hardware and not the software which doesn't tell me that Windows is the "superior" OS. What I got out of the commercial is that "cool" people buy Macs and un-cool people buy HPs. Didn't tell me anything about the operating system. Good job at advertising another company Microsoft!

MAC's are good -- PC's are good -- depends on the user's abilities -- MAC's are generally good for people who don't know much about computers and want something that works and little trouble. PC's are good for users who know more about computers .. I mean I haven't had a virus in 10 yrs....don't open all that crap your PC retarded friends send you and your generally fine. Besides I run linux on all but one PC...plus I can generally upgrade my PC myself for like $200 and have a spanking new/fast machine...generally can't upgrade a MAC..have to buy a whole new one....but like I say I am not the norm and know more then the average joe blow....MAC users , in general, know nothing about computers.

Buy a PC, WITHOUT windows. That way you will really save some cash.

Anyone who can't look after a PC shouldn't have one. My PC that I have had for a year now has not had a single problem. It's running windows Vista and it's still as fast as the day I got it.

CanBert just said everything I was going to say, good job.

I love how all these MAC people are here talking about PC's getting viruses and having it not work in 3 years or so, well I've got a really old PC from like 1990 downstairs that works great like the day we got it for christmas running 3.1. So where's your 5 years running now?

Viruses? Don't make me laugh, you're compairing an underused OS(don't lie) that coders don't make that many viruses for, compared to windows which is the most widespread OS that coders tailor to.

Microsoft has about 80% of the computer market, MAC 15% and UNIX based 5% If you're looking to get someone's credit card # who are you going to go after? You're not safer on a MAC, you just have less of a user base.

Bottom line: if you take care of your computer, it will take care of you.

Incase you didn't guess, I use windows but I'm looking into using Linux soon.