Apple Takes on Microsoft's 'Laptop Hunter' Ads

Who wants to drive a Yugo when you can have a Porche! You get what you pay for. My sons have gone thru 2 or 3 PC laptops while I still have my Macbook Pro. I haven't done anything to this laptop for three years but let it run and run it does! My youngest son stated to me the other that he wants my laptop when I upgrade!

I don't own a laptop, but I'd go Apple if I bought one. Don't think I'd go with a big screen like the girl in this promo did, but I rather pay extra for something I know from experience I can rely on than something that's developed a rep for not being so reliable.

well everyone is not like you , and can afford a porche!!

I'm a computer technician. I currently own 2 PC desktop a and 1 Laptop and they have been running fine for the past 3+ years w/o any problems. Mac commercials are deceiving. There have been confirmed reports that Macs are also being hit with viruses and attacked by hackers. No one is safe, no matter which brand you get.

Interesting. Apple is on the defensive with these ads, that doesn't speak well for their current position. It says to me they've lost the initiative, and are now reacting to Microsoft's moves.

As I look upon my desk top..I have two computers, MAC and Sony Vaio. Both purchased about three years ago, month or so apart. I have spent more money on pay for service items on the PC ... nary one dime...not one on the MAC. Take about 5-600$ off the MAC cost on that alone. The tugboat speed Office is gone for good, replaced for free by OpenOffice. It's a tool..just a simple tool. MS thinks everyone wants to be be challenged and expensed to death by their ops and apps. Never fails...PC's get retired cause people are tired to having to tinker, and tinker with a slowwwing running machine.

macs are the most confusing computers to operate and not all programs run on them !

I own two PCs (both custom-built machines) with WinXP, and a MacBook with the latest version of the Mac OS. I'd been a PC user exclusively for fourteen years (since I was three), but when I was seventeen I got the MacBook as part of being at the audio engineering school I went to. I've since fallen in love with it, and take it everywhere I go. Everything I want to run runs on it, with the exception of my favorite digital sequencer, FL Studio (it's PC-only). Not a bad thing, as I've made my PC my main workstation and gaming computer, since it's much more powerful and has much more storage space than my MacBook. I'd really like to switch to getting a Mac Pro, though, as then I'd be able to switch back and forth between the Mac OS and Windows, just using BootCamp or something (already do this on the MacBook).

A, Microsoft failed badly with Windows Vista, at least for the power users' market. I'm looking forward to Windows 7, as I've heard it's actually a decent OS.

B, for a user like me, the Mac easily offers everything I want. Plus, I find that the Mac OS is just so well designed that it makes using the computer such a joy and so fluid.

All that to say that I prefer the Mac OS, especially in my field, but I'm not going to snub the PC world...unless, of course, said PC came with Windows Vista.

I work professionally in computers, have been for 20 years. I've used them all. Bought a mac laptop 2.4 years ago and I love it. I have Parallels on it when I need to run XP (verrry rarely) and haven't had a problem using it at any client's yet!

NO viruses or spyware EVER, that would be worth the price alone, but it is always up, no crashes, and much faster than the PCs I work on.

And I paid 800$ for it new, just searched around and found a site that sells on discount. Just like a car, you can choose to pay full price, or you can shop smart. Microcenter has them for $850 right now.

Also, if you look at PC Mag's 5 recommendations for high performance PCs, the top end mac is the best price, the Win PCs are all more expensive.

Yeah I own 2 PC's I have never had a problem with either of them. My Laptop runs fine, and my Desktop runs fine as well considering that it is very old. I have only replace my desktop once because the first one was many years old and not compatible anymore with software and other services. My newer desktop is about 7 years old and works fine. All of my friends who are Mac users?? complain all the time. "my screen doesn't work right" "i can't get MSN to work" "not all of my programs from my PC are working for this Mac!" Mac isn't all that : \

When friends want to buy a computer, I tell them to get a Mac. I have always used PC's because the businesses I worked with used PC's. but when a person gets a Mac they never have to call me. I have a Dell laptop with Vista thant crashed 38 times between Wed and Saturday a week ago. I bought my first PC when IBM came out with its first PC, either in 80 or 81, but I wish that all of the time I had to figure out the various Dos and Windows programs and ills (and I have used EVERY ONE, was used in actually doing work and solving problems. I now own 18 computers, including ones I put together myself, but I am retired and play with them as a hobby, but I still think that the MAC was the best windows system ever stolen from Xerox's PARC.

I bought a 17 inch Mac Pro...all the bells and whistles... I did not like it. Number one, I am 53, and have used windows all of this time. The new icons, terms, raised keyboard, and the screen having to pinch and push stuff, was just too much for me to learn.... Lots of difference between the two. I chose another Dell, and love it. I have never had a computer to crash, and I've owned maybe six or seven... I have had viruses, but my computer shop friends can usually clean it up for me for 40 bucks or so. i always keep a updated virus protector on my computer. So for me, the extra money was not so much the issue, as I just did not like it. I did get my dell 17 inch loaded, super loaded, for about 2300.00 and the Apple was like 3200 including tax...

I've been a computer technician for some time, I've got all the degrees who cares though.

Apples commericials lies and the sad thing is people try to use the commericials in arguments with me. The number one thing people who own Apples say well they are better because they don't get virus's or crash. WRONG!

I've owned 2 Apple Laptops they froze all the time and had more virus issues than any of my Dell's.

If the Apples were not able to be hacked and didn't get virus's or crash, our government and military agencies would be using them.

Trust me they don't....

Other issues with Mac include. Not being able to send and recieve some e-mails(happens more than on PC's), also not alot of software works on Apples that works on a PC, then you have the price, then you have the how much they charge for maintence.

If they didn't crash or get virus's they wouldn't need as many Maintaince repair places as they have, that should be a sign to anyone.