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Monday, November 10, 2008

I'm a PC store on Zazzle

Posted by Ben at 2:20 PM

It's pretty much impossible now to watch TV without seeing one of those Mac vs. PC commercials. You know... the ones with a supposedly cool 20-something (Justin Long from Live Free or Die Hard) and a computer geek with a striking resemblance to Bill Gates. It's funny because those Mac commercials never explicitly mention Microsoft, just PCs (although they do mention Vista a lot in the most recent ones), but they're obviously jabs at Microsoft. And if somehow you've happened to miss these commercials, here are 15 shorts from early on:

15 short Ads Mac vs PC

Well for a while it seemed like Microsoft was just going to continue to be the butt of Apple's commercials, but now the (evil?) empire has struck back. Instead of attacking Macs (which I don't think they would really be successful at), they've decided to just tout how great PCs are, listing the plethora of (cool?) things you can do with a PC. They have a new slogan, "Life Without Walls" and seemed to have spent lots of marketing/advertising dollars on their "I'm a PC" campaign. Apple has turned around and made a number of funny new commercials surrounding Microsoft spending significantly more money on marketing than on fixing Vista. Check out some of the I'm a PC commercials:

Pharrell Williams - Exclusive Video - I'm a PC

The Real PC - Sean Siler (I'm a PC)

Microsoft has also launched their I'm a PC ZAZZLE store. Some of the designs are pretty geeky, but I guess they are cool: