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04/14/2007, 4:35pm, EDT
Saturday, April 14th
Apple posts new Get a Mac ad: "Stuffed"
Just days after tech guru Walt Mossberg described his frustrations with "craplets" on Windows-based PCs, Apple has posted yet another television ad in its "Get A Mac" campaign: "Stuffed" highlights the "plethora of teaser software and advertisements" found on Windows-based PCs versus the fully-featured iLife suite bundled with Macs. Mossberg's column, published last week, pointed out the dismal user experience due to the overwhelming amount of advertising and trial software installed on modern Windows PCs: "I'm talking about two main problems. One is the plethora of teaser software and advertisements for products that must be cleared and uninstalled to make way for your own stuff. The second is the confusing welter of security programs you have to master and update, even on a virgin machine," the columnist wrote in his column. "Stuffed" follows the release of "Flashback" and "Computer Cart" earlier this week.
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I also seem to recall a Microsoft Office preview installed...
Although, in the Windows world, you can get around this by building your own machine.
A Mac with 5 million apps will not run differently than one with 10, unless they all came with extra fonts/contextual items etc. (and assuming it leaves disk space for virtual memory) Fonts and VM are an issue on Windows machines too, but 5 million apps creates a registry with 5 million new entries, times a multiplier for the different sections of the registry that multiple bits get into.
My mac comes full with trail software:
- Quicktime (can't even go fullscreen!) - Office Trail - Omni stuff trail - iWork trail - .Mac (i have to buy that bluh!?)
(p.s. Great ad from ad perspective... it's just the content that is questionable)
yeesh... funny ad...
Good luck with the spare tires in your next brand new car...