arnie

I hope Arnie is a featured switcher

"AAAuugghhh! Super Mac Movie! I crush dose crummy wintel boxes like a T1000 dats been cloned! aaauuuGGHHGHU"

I hope

britney spear will be there too.

Shaq

A segment featured Lakers players going to an Apple store after Shaq "demanded" teamates buy an iPod or he wouldn't let them on the team bus. Who's gonna argue with that guy?

Get him on board

I hope it won't send a message that only the rich can afford these machines.

Really!?

Britney is coming...whoo hoo...nasty!!!

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"I hope it won't send a message that only the rich can afford these machines"

but only the rich *can* afford them.

ooh,

i hope they get Bea Arthur. she's a babe.

Harry Knowles

Harry Knowles (www.aintitcool.com) already said a while back that he was filmed for one of these commercials.

link to Knowles story

http://www.powerpage.org/story.lasso?newsID=9333

Ironic to see "soap" and "Harry Knowles" in the same thread - a friend and I were shopping in Atomic City, a great little shop in Austin. Mr. Knowles came in - and brought with him a horrible stench. His odor was so repellent that we had to wait outside for him to leave before we went back in to complete our shopping. I also found it rather alarming that he admitted to an Austin Film Festival crowd (which I was a member of) that he blew off his sister's wedding so he could watch a movie (!!!). Popular website or not, the guy's priorities are more than a bit askew of the norm - even beyond Apple's wide-latitude "think different." Apple's decision to use him as a spokesperson/whatever thoroughly baffles me.

Line 'em up!

There are certainly a wide range of Mac using celebrities Apple could tap.

Let's see.... Stephen King. Esa-Pekka Salonen (composer, music director and conductor of the LA Philharmonic, also young, brilliant and photogenic).... That fat chick with the TV show, Rosie O'Donnell... Tom Clancy......... Who else?

re: Line 'em up!

yeah yeah. almost every musician out there (They've already shown Seal and Moby)

but they want to feature switchers ... and I think recent switchers, not long time users that may have switched 7 years ago.

How about George Lucas:
"We used to use PCs for everything at ILM, but just recently we used a Mac for that one R2-D2 scene in Episode 2 ... Macs are great"

Knowles

Harry Knowles - "stink different"

also:

Many, many great musicians use Macs... Although this could all change soon if Digidesign and other high-end audio developers don't get off their lazy asses and write some friggin code for osx!!!!!!!!!!!

TONY HAWK uses a Mac

-that make a good ad

Star Wars

Yeah, we made Star Wars on a Mac....that's why Episode Two only sucked about 9/10 as much as Episode I.

Sorry, but I'd rather see Lucas bragging about using PCs to make that c*** he calls films.

ILM

"How about George Lucas:
We used to use PCs for everything at ILM [...]"

I think they used SGI machines until now, and only recently switched to PCs running Linux.

How about

ROSIE O"DONNELL

She'll be a real magnet for new switchers.


GO ROSIE

Goldblum?

I pray not. "I switched, because Apple agreed to give me free macs for life if a do a few cruddy commercials. This why, when my career tanks, I'll still have something to sell so I can buy crack!"

Oh, yeah!

Let's get Sting!!! ;)

Applemasters

Look at the big AppleMasters list, people who endorse Mac. We should see some of them in these commercials, hopefully.

How about

Stephen Sondheim? A Mac user for years. Add a little "class" to these spots.