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Meet Jean Paolo. Microsoft gave him $1500 to find a laptop that’s right for him. He wants us to know that he’s tech savvy. He wants us to know that he has big hands. He probably hopes we know what that’s supposed to mean. He’s a smug tool, and he’s a PC:
In Microsoft’s defense, it was pretty ballsy or whatever to actually describe their competitor’s product as “sexy” in one of their own commercials. Sexy = bad in Microsoft land, which sounds about right. If this commercial gets a lot of airplay, maybe people will lay off that adorable Justin Long for a year or two.
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“tech savvy” = I can say ‘megahertz’ really fast
“really picky” = I spend approx. 1 minute buying things that cost $1,500
“I know what I want” = you literally just witnessed on camera Microsoft paying me to buy a PC.
Objectivity!
he didn’t even say “tech savvy,” he said “technically savvy,” which is NOT the same as technologically savvy (duh). Yup, sounds just like the typical PC guy: just as clueless as he is cocky/delusional… keep your PC, jean-pierre,luc…whatever
Yeah, Macs certainly aren’t known for their computing power. Cause, you know, people don’t EDIT ENTIRE FILMS ON THEM OR ANYTHING.
Ok. I’ll get off ye ole Mac soapbox now. Enjoy your giant plastic turd, g. Hopefully those giant hands will help you accurately throw it out the window out of frustration.
fuck macs. Lets think, a pc with 12gb ddr3 ram, over a terrabyte of memory and an intel i7 processor for 1300$ (which i own) or an or a mac pro with similar specs for around 6000… Do the math. And yes, i even worked at the apple store and i do like macs, they’re just to god damn expensive and have an annoying following of moron elitists who really don’t know shit about computers.
HAI GUYS
enjoy those “fatal exception” error messages jean paolo
I think the point of this commercial was that it would be cheaper to buy a comparable PC to a Mac, which is true.
Wtf was a guy in a suit feeding him tech specs?
It’s impossible to buy a nice Macbook with $1,500. No wonder he went for the cheap, crappy PC.
BOO
I like how he thinks that Macs are about only ascetics but never bothers to try one out and attempt to prove himself wrong.
JACK.
ASS.
Please read and compare the following:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Ascetics
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Aesthetics
Oops. He pronounced it as ‘ascetics’, I wrote it as ‘ascetics’. I can’t really blame him, though. He claimed to be ‘technically savvy’, not ‘english language pronunciation savvy’.
This debate has been made before many times, and I won’t get into it. I’ve already picked my side, and there’s a piece of fruit involved.
BUT, he was at a Fry’s, and I’ve NEVER seen an employee at Fry’s be that helpful.
I AM TECHNICALLY SAVVY
thank god he found a pc for under$1500 that will suit his needs of searching the internet and sending emails
Mac, PC, doesn’t matter. Only 3 main internet functions: Email, Facebook, Porn. Oh, and videogum.
i’ve had a lot of problems with my mac, so i’m not going to rule out pcs when it’s time to purchase a new computer. my problem with this gianpaolo is when he brags about having “really big hands.” like, he just had to let the viewing public know that. douche.
Can they both just stop advertising? Apple ads are so condescending and now Microsoft is just doucheing it up and it makes me want to go back to masturbating to videotapes.
wasn’t this kid the waiter in those old international coffee commercials? what was his name?
Jean-Luc!
Macs are for technically computer impaired (Computer retarded) and Windows are in all truth for more technically savvy people. Either way, you can pretty much get whatever you want done on either computer. But if you want to game it up, Macs are the biggest piece of shit you can buy.
Yeah! Game it up you guys!
Some people say I eat too many chocolate bars, and that I don’t wash my face.
I still quote that to this day!
Also the game argument goes out the window since both Macs and PC’s use the same processors. What are you doing gaming on a pc anyways, bitch you needs to get a console!
Not quite so. Even though they may use the same processors, that doesn’t mean they will meet the graphic engine requirements which unless you are willing to spend at least $2000 for a Macbook Pro or somewhere between $1300-1500 for regular iMac, you won’t be getting anything decent in these terms. Plus gaming software is usually not supported in the Mac OSX, so another aspect about it. Meh anyways I’m done here. Time to go put stupid comments on stereogum.
whoa… this post just turned into nerdygamergum. I’m obviously out of my league (not a nerdy gamer).
All I know is that after 4 years of a frustrating vaio a250, switching to the new macbook pro was like heaven! And no one will ever agree on the mac v. pc debate, obviously, but this article was pretty interesting–comparing the mac vs. pc “bang-for-your-buck”.
Shelling out $2,800 for a laptop kind of hurt, but after reading that a comparable microsoft machine would cost $3,000+ (not that I would have bought a pc either way), it made it hurt a little less.
yes, the Linux banana.