Comments on: In new TV hard sell, Microsoft strikes at Apple's art

The latest Laptop Hunter TV spot from Microsoft sees the company addressing the very core of Apple's being--artists.

[jrjmusician]

Someone ask her what she has in your other hand walking out the frys electronic's store! MAYBE $1000 editing software! lol

[-Xalor-]

I have a good question to ask the buyer? If you are cutting video, profressionally as you say it. Wouldn't you want Final Cut Pro? I know there are the Vegas, Premiere/After Effects Alternatives, but Final Cut Pro is one of the mainstream ones that most designers use. Not that I'm an Apple Fanboi, don't even own an iPod, or a Mac, but seriously, a PC isn't for video editing, half the people who buy a Mac, well the Pros and the Mac Pro Desktop get it for Final Cut, or other editing.

[justinf79]

Ahaha, she bought a computer with *cringes* VISTA!!

[mgheff]

What a bad add. Upgrading the RM on the Mac would not be that expensive, and anyone knows that an Apple does art EONS better than any PC.

[TheJustin84]

I love my PC (with xp of course) and I love my macbook pro. I play all my games as a hardcore gamer on my PC but for video editing I use final cut pro. Every mac i've had has handled audio and video editing so much better then my PC... so I think this AD was pretty much a bunch of bull. However! I can't get away from being a gamer! So despite this Ad that pissing me off with the video editing, I will continue playing my games on windows :D.

[shikhar.bhagat]

I don't understand what all the fuss is about from PC users (myself included - not fussing here). The fact of the matter is that Apple makes the software (Mac OS X and the lot) and gets its hardware components together - in the end you get a highly optimised robust machine.

What are the Microsoft ads pitching at? Various brands of laptops that can be bought? Do they ever say that MS Paint helps the user create great images? Or Windows Movie Maker is an awesome video editing software? No...just no. They're all about how cheap laptops (not Macs) are. Oh...did I mention that laptops with Windows on them aren't even optimised?

*sigh* I can go on all day about this but you get the idea. PC owners, just stop feeling great, the ads suck. Mac users, don't rejoice, its just Microsoft.

[annewilland]

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[cyclonica1980]

Cant I just love both? Why do I have to choose !!!!

[Jesus_lover]

The biggest problem with PC's is the lack of user support. You have articles online that try and help you though MS doesn't really help you. They just point the finger to at some other 3rd party. I've used PC for over a decade and I have gray hair on my head and face from the frustration of their philosophy. I've been certified in window systems and no matter how much effort I've put into trying to understand MS thinking, it's like chasing the wind. My hat is off to you Window dummies for your diligent effort in chasing something that will NEVER EVER give you back the time & effort you waste on it, with VIRUSES, SPYWARE, and every other hateful thing it's own community tries to destroy it self with.
? I love the support Apple gives me! Whether by phone call (US, Canada not over sea's) or in person at their own Apple stores. Customer Service is PRICELESS!!! Something that MS doesn't do, Period.
Countless hours spent on a computer, trying to do simple to complex tasks, is not worth any price PC manufactures give you. Wake up matrix, your asleep people.
Look how successful the app store has become!
THE ONE THING YOU CAN GIVE IN THIS WORLD AND NEVER GET BACK IS YOUR TIME.
God bless you all for hearing the truth!

[Gambit642]

That's because all those things you mentioned, that makes PC suck, AREN'T MICROSOFT'S! Nor, are they part of the OS. Since when did Microsoft start selling Viruses and spyware? These Mac "guru's" seriously mistake the lack-of threats as some type of godly security implementation by Apple. The fact that spammers and virus/worm writers don't bother with investing the time in developing for Mac doesn't make OS X some impenetrable platform. It just means the uneducated user can download more junk before he finally gets that STD.

I will say Apple support has a much larger scope. I have never actually heard a Genius say "we don't support that" or turn you away. But its easier to support a user base of mouse and email issues when you are only a fraction of the market. So am I paying that extra $$ for decent support? Save it for those who need it.

[deniceels]

I wonder, what happens when Microsoft code segments which allows MacOS to run.... hmm... What will become of MBP, MB?