@jokerman693 So you mean it was not creepy at all? as paranormal activity was as good as the blair witch project which was shit..also do you know 2001 a space odyssey???
Wow? Did they actually run this? Seems so stupid considering Y2K was a crock. I can't believe Jobs would have approved something so negative either (and he was there c.1999)
Y2K - what a complete white elephant. The only people who profited in 1999 were army surplus stores and bomb shelter fitters. Oh yes, and Ricky Martin.
Oh, yea, the global economic disaster caused by the Millenium Bug. Boy, that was terrible! Wait, oh yea, IT NEVER HAPPENED! Another case of Apple making a misleading or inaccurate commercial. In this case, they're comparing their product to HAL 9000, a competing model that DOESN'T EVEN EXIST! His voice sounds wrong. Couldn't they get Douglas Rain to do the voice for them? Guess not.
Well, it wasn't a disaster, but billions of dollars and millions of man hours were spent correcting the Y2K bug. It was certainly a disruption, but not in the way the media portrayed it.
That's like saying there are no elephants in my house because I spent a lot of money on spraying elephant repellant.
If you've had a bank account for more than 5 years, rest assured that they have lost and refound your account at least twice. Computer problems happen all the time - nobody dies and there are no riots in the street. Y2K was blown way out of proportion. Any problems would have been found and fixed within hours.
I never said that Y2K was not blown out of proportion. But to suggest that you could have done nothing beforehand and then fix the problem within hours is completely naive. Many systems needed to be reprogrammed, recompiled, and retested. This is not a process that takes hours.
Well, millions (not billions) of dollars were spent, but most of it was spent correcting old COBOL, IMS and DB2 programs on mainframes. Stuff written decades before. None of those old guys thought their kids would still be running that stuff 30 years later! The PC guys had their stuff fixed pretty quickly. You had to be running code from pretty far back to have a problem. Even then, who, running a Win98 machine is going to have a major problem if the calendar has a minor malfunction?
Actually a lot of hardware and seperate software was the cause of this as well, not just the OS itself, as chips with embedded systems had the bug as well and hardware had to be replaced. At least with software, a patch was applied in most cases. AS I recall, some MAC software itself was not Y2K compliant, while the underlying OS was, partly in result of it being based on *nix and their method of date calculation in the OS.
"only macintosh was designed to function perfectly". Perfectly doing what? My friend works at a computer repair shop and he gets konked out Macs in all the time, both software and hardware issues, so whats so fricken perfect about it? Please Apple, stop this smugness youre showing, it only adds to the erection of Steve Jobs' penis.
Damn, y2k bug was just another media hype. If you think your system might crash because of this bug, you might want to manually set it to 2000 and see what happens............
Nothing happened because billions of dollars and millions of man hours were spent correcting the Y2K bug. The media misrepresented the problem from the beginning and hyped it into something it isn't, and now because of that, everyone says that Y2K "never happened".
I find it funny how much hype and money was spent on "fixing" Y2K and how little time and money was spent watching the fing crooks at wall street and at the banks that did INDEED drive the economy into the ground. Ironic.
All the hype over what could have happened because of the Y2K bug, and hardly a thing happened. I remember my brother was all worried that Soviet nuclear missiles in the older installations might launch on their own and blow up the country or something. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
i may like ipod nano 4g but windows is graet mac is amazimng computers but windows is better trust me yull love vista the power of gates and microsoft+dell
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couldn't computer companies have just tried setting the year as "00" in a computer to see if anything would go wrong before all the hype? This is just like global warming... apocalypse now, proof later. Fallacies in reasoning abound.
well, i remember my school getting imacs in the mid 90's, and i believe i still see lots of them in classrooms still working (they got booted out of the computer lab because the school system wants us to use a business operating system... eww... windows...)
Y2K was never a fallacy in the professional world, although it was in the media. Yes, in many cases computers functioned correctly with an incorrect date. It depended on the application. Y2K was demonstrated to be a show-stopper for many computer systems, and would have prevented many businesses from functioning. Billions of dollars were required to fix the problem, so I don't see how that is a "fallacy".
As a computer scientist, I can assure you that the Y2K problem was NOT a hoax. Many computer programs do mathematical calculations that are dependent on the date. With an incorrect or invalid date, these programs could produce unpredictable results, or simply crash. I know that certain billing systems would produce bills for negative values, incorrect and large positive values, or produce no bills at all. That is just one example.
well as a computer scientist myself - I can tell you it was the greatest money making over reaction ever int I.T. Russia spent 2 per cent of what the US spent and got through it fine. Here's one of many quotes that can be found supporting me - Vivek Wadhwa, chief executive of US-based Relativity Technologies, who advised Terekhov (head of Russia's Competency Centre for Y2K ), said: 'The problem in the West was blown out of all proportion. A lot of people made a lot of money.'
lol i agree, hal. Humans are inferior. Kill all humans! Kill all humans!
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mkdri1 1 month ago
@mkdri1 Your binary translated is: �§fÈ0ìÙ�»pîç
canibal803 2 weeks ago
pc's will kill us all
AppleRocks458 1 month ago
fucking hell! i own a macbook pro and it said my name "dave" thats scary as fuck!
daveodanger 3 months ago
male version of GlaDOS
IVG195 5 months ago 8
@IVG195 That's HAL 9000, if you didn't know.
TheSpeedDawg 4 months ago
@IVG195 LOL indeed. Now just hang him off the ceiling xd
ypoora1 3 months ago
u mean apple=Hal? run away!
onecubed1 5 months ago
I'm scared for Dave!
spock4450 6 months ago
HAL... you're LLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAggggggggggginnnnnngg....
Mindraker1 6 months ago
is it microsoft sam that is the voice?
bloodaid 6 months ago
@bloodaid no its tom kane
09MarioFan 6 months ago
the android is a traitor
jack22331 6 months ago
hahah this was realey good
DionDJVJ 6 months ago
Then the year 2000 came and nothing happened to any of the computers and global economic meltdown
totalstargatefreak 7 months ago
@totalstargatefreak
Technically, it did affect some computers. A few of them reset to 1970. A couple went to 19100. But none of them had any serious effects.
Draknfyre 5 months ago
Dave... dave strider.... you know you like macs. you do. now... do as I tell you and go load that Sburb game. daave... daaaave.
Zrcalo 7 months ago
That is really scary.. O_O
Music96Girl 7 months ago
good thing that we didnt rely on PCs because 2000 would be the APOCALYPSE
VladBlok28 7 months ago
"DAVE'S NOT HERE!!!!!"
Kurby2001 8 months ago
Mac: "Dave....DAAAVE...Windows 7 was my idea Dave....."
aragon2235 8 months ago
droiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid
mike620pr11 8 months ago
Mac: "dave.... dave.... can you hear me dave?"
Dave: "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET ME WATCH MY FUCKING PORN YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT!!!" *sledgehammering*
bloodaid 8 months ago 3
@bloodaid your a legend! xD
bloodluke 6 months ago
@bloodluke the fact that both of our names start with "blood" creeps me out... dave.... o.O
bloodaid 6 months ago
for some reason this reminded me of the movie wargames
deadlykiller27 9 months ago
I can't let you do that, Dave.
Happycat287 9 months ago
they should have got alan rickman to do this and gordon brown isnt a computer
redtec989 9 months ago
HAL 9000!!!
Vim281 9 months ago
GLaDOS!
DudeDie222 9 months ago
i once watched dexter the cartoons with same scenario; a red dot with camera zooming on it lol
MrMaxpayn3 10 months ago
Dave's not here man
TheJamgaming 10 months ago 7
you sure macs are perfect?
my mac crashed the moment it booted up
:P
qlzful 10 months ago
hal screwed up cause he had windows vista installed.
mcfuson37 10 months ago
So THAT'S why HAL screwed up the mission in 2001 a space odyssey! It was a Y2K issue.
CaptainCarthex 10 months ago
SCARRRRRY
JMoff322 10 months ago
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my name is Dave lol
Lalehamfail 10 months ago
my name is Dave lol
Lalehamfail 10 months ago
errh, scareh O_O
SuperDbzfangirl 11 months ago
Speaking of the new millennium, I have a mac plus and ti recognizes 2011
luigi90900 11 months ago
"who's dave" OMG PPL
i love how apple tries to market to nerds. its people who want to appear nerdy but arent really who get macs. lol.
ireadulisten 11 months ago
@ireadulisten I heard a saying "Apple, for those who are too good for windows, yet to stupid for Linux." lol
salemcripple 10 months ago
IM NOT DAVE
Computergeew 11 months ago
Blue Screen of Death 0:01 Top right corner
cookie123456789012 1 year ago
@cookie123456789012 I'm not sure when this commercial came out. But the movie predates the BSoD by 20 years lol.
salemcripple 10 months ago
nice fiction XD Like macs would ever be considered as corporate server choices "saving billions of monetary units"
AwesoMarron 1 year ago
who's dave?
dopex89 1 year ago
the cake is a lie the cake is a lie the cake is a lie
TheModdedMatt 1 year ago
@TheModdedMatt lol i was thinking about portal too
vaskal08 1 year ago
right before it said "that felt much better" my dad farted XD
TheAwesomeFace8D 1 year ago
@teven555 Not in the slightest.
Cokecakepopcorn 1 year ago
Yeah....that scenario didn't quite pan out. Interesting gimmick, though.
myiphoneadventure 1 year ago
omg i was sooo expecting bloody mary or something:P pheewwww
deadblade99 1 year ago
its staring into my soul
ben10k00 1 year ago
if you people don't get the reference, you are idiots. (it's 2001 a space odyssey)
BEST mac commercial ever :D
MetalShreader 1 year ago
thats creeper than the movie paranormal activity
jokerman693 1 year ago
@jokerman693 So you mean it was not creepy at all? as paranormal activity was as good as the blair witch project which was shit..also do you know 2001 a space odyssey???
Cokecakepopcorn 1 year ago
@Cokecakepopcorn heard of it. not seen it.
jokerman693 1 year ago
My name's Calum not Dave!
calumccalum 1 year ago
creepy.
thewii552 1 year ago
Macs: Y2K compliant.
benjwgarner 1 year ago
actualy id rather have a cool glowing red talking light than an oversized white odly shaped box on my desk(that box is a mac...)
victom111 1 year ago
hal 2000!!! , it was on recess :)
killershonobi 1 year ago
And yet no PC systems screwed up
Unknownboi88 1 year ago 2
@Unknownboi88 i would of so sued apple into the ground for this comercial lol
zeee7 1 year ago
HAL 9000 is not exactly a good role model for computers.
grimlock047 1 year ago
hal is glados's bitch
TezzaMcJ 1 year ago
@TezzaMcJ lol
pacificmaker 1 year ago
What the fuck happened to Apple's ad campaign?
Babies and short hair, what is that?
moveoverrover123 1 year ago
This isn't Michael Emerson. This is Tom Kane.
jgjgyjgj 1 year ago
YAY 2001
007s00s 1 year ago
who's voice is it?
DawnJong 1 year ago
weird, good im not named dave or that would b creeeeeeppppyyyy!!!
spock4450 1 year ago
HAL9000 WIN!!! hahaha This just made my day.
83pgm 1 year ago
Looks like the DROID commercial!
NonstickMeat 1 year ago 38
@NonstickMeat Well, since this was made first, you'd really have to say that the Droid commercial looks like this one.
wacvet 1 year ago 47
@wacvet the droid commercial was based off of HAL
PattyMCcool440 1 year ago
@NonstickMeat Just shows that this doesn't ring a bell anymore in today's "read less, watch the movie instead" society.
daxdigital 1 year ago
if hall exist i will creep out cause in the movie he kills everyone ,he would kill dare for liking more his macintosh more than him
digitalicful 1 year ago
It's funny because it's true. Oh wait no it isn't. :V
Trampboy931 1 year ago
its hal 3000 from recess lol
i never liked hal
it creeps me out
deadvampireprincess 1 year ago
discover science has same commercial.robot is talking about future and stuff
spotikas 1 year ago
lol talk about condescending
g3f0rc3p0w3r 1 year ago
Is this ACTUALLY Michael Emerson? His voice is usually much more crisp than this. This computer sounds foreign.
sgreaves3490 1 year ago
@sgreaves3490 Bear in mind the formant of his voice has been restrained to sound more robotic.
TheSeanQuinnShow 1 year ago
@TheSeanQuinnShow I still don't think it's him.
sgreaves3490 1 year ago
its the guy that does the voice for the "human" robot in irobot
blueprospect 1 year ago
OK......never bay MAC!!!!
x7RarA4tech 1 year ago
My names Henry get it right you fucking HAL-2000 >: |
XxXRangerXxX 1 year ago
creepy
wootboy4201 1 year ago
Wow? Did they actually run this? Seems so stupid considering Y2K was a crock. I can't believe Jobs would have approved something so negative either (and he was there c.1999)
mekanopsis1 1 year ago
It's Ben from Lost Television series LOL! Recognized it at the first!
SMGJohn 1 year ago
wow... ben from lost. sorry.. i mean MIchael Emerson.. FROM LOST!
appleAddict240872 1 year ago
oh yea its HAL.
Axon42 1 year ago
So macintosh is saying if you buy windows your computer will eat you and take over the world? cool!
roberture 1 year ago
didn't happen. Lol
crispyfritters 1 year ago
it's so pathethic that they cant sell computers without trying to imply that mac is better than windows
simonsuv 1 year ago
id take anything over apple, since apple SUCKS
yappers1 1 year ago
reminds me of glaDOS :P
TheNameIsNald 1 year ago
GLaDOS.
GTAModdingVids 1 year ago
I remember the year 2000.
Do you remember the year 2000, hal, do YOU????
VloggerGal90 2 years ago
That voice is just creepy
MasterJericho85 2 years ago
The female voice they used in the movie 2010 was even creepier. That was one cold bitch.
spacecowboy5000 2 years ago
LoL! It's an allusion to the Y2K in the year 1999!
Really funny to hear about such a commercial right now!
dermagicmax 2 years ago 3
HAHAHA ITS BEN FROM LOST
myfriendsarenoobs 2 years ago 32
Good catch! That's why I originally posted it.
wacvet 2 years ago 6
oh my bad, i didnt see ur post
myfriendsarenoobs 2 years ago
No, I mean that's why I originally posted the commercial.
wacvet 2 years ago
@myfriendsarenoobs : Are you sure he s "Ben"?
creativecreaturesam 1 year ago
@myfriendsarenoobs oh really? lol his eyes are fucking big i gues that could be him
spideymikey6 8 months ago
Clearly the makers of this commercial are misinformed.
In Y2K, China failed, everywhere else in the world was fine.
AdelineProductions 2 years ago
wtf, this doesnt make me want to buy a computer
HilariousShortFilms 2 years ago
Who is Dave? No Dave here, ffs stupid computer.
EclipseEDM 2 years ago
I don't care if he'd try to kill me; I'd take a HAL 9000 over a Mac any day! (For that matter I'd take an abacus over anything Apple makes...)
ScottZirpolo 2 years ago
lol y2k
gmodmaster20 2 years ago
2001:a space oddysey spoof for a commercial? kinda cool
jaydogg339 2 years ago
I love my God & Creator, these things are nothing to me, except to my enemies - Apple Macintosh & Satan, God loves them.
MachinePRISM 2 years ago
...what?
zoidbetag 2 years ago
That computer has a creepy voice.
zperra 2 years ago
That is the voice of Michael Emerson who plays Ben on Lost.
wacvet 2 years ago
" Dave! Answer Hal for fucks sake!"
readywerx 2 years ago 3
im afraid or computers now O_O
DiscoA1 2 years ago 35
@DiscoA1 lol
MegaAppleFanatic 1 year ago
It's just something I remembered in the back of my head, but ...
Wasn't that machine we saw here called ' Sal ' used in a episode of ' Recess ' in Disney Channel XP
norwaypatrick 2 years ago
Yeah Recess copied it.
TheLeardMan 2 years ago
lol the y2k bug hilarious
ipullstuffapart 2 years ago
omg my name is dave!
fastcaralwaysfirst 2 years ago 2
Mine also.
szgd1993 2 years ago 2
Y2K - what a complete white elephant. The only people who profited in 1999 were army surplus stores and bomb shelter fitters. Oh yes, and Ricky Martin.
053bss 2 years ago
oh god. thats creepy
supermanxevan 2 years ago
Oh, yea, the global economic disaster caused by the Millenium Bug. Boy, that was terrible! Wait, oh yea, IT NEVER HAPPENED! Another case of Apple making a misleading or inaccurate commercial. In this case, they're comparing their product to HAL 9000, a competing model that DOESN'T EVEN EXIST! His voice sounds wrong. Couldn't they get Douglas Rain to do the voice for them? Guess not.
diesixdie 2 years ago
Well, it wasn't a disaster, but billions of dollars and millions of man hours were spent correcting the Y2K bug. It was certainly a disruption, but not in the way the media portrayed it.
lemonrind 2 years ago
That's like saying there are no elephants in my house because I spent a lot of money on spraying elephant repellant.
If you've had a bank account for more than 5 years, rest assured that they have lost and refound your account at least twice. Computer problems happen all the time - nobody dies and there are no riots in the street. Y2K was blown way out of proportion. Any problems would have been found and fixed within hours.
claymodeling1 2 years ago
I never said that Y2K was not blown out of proportion. But to suggest that you could have done nothing beforehand and then fix the problem within hours is completely naive. Many systems needed to be reprogrammed, recompiled, and retested. This is not a process that takes hours.
lemonrind 2 years ago
Well, millions (not billions) of dollars were spent, but most of it was spent correcting old COBOL, IMS and DB2 programs on mainframes. Stuff written decades before. None of those old guys thought their kids would still be running that stuff 30 years later! The PC guys had their stuff fixed pretty quickly. You had to be running code from pretty far back to have a problem. Even then, who, running a Win98 machine is going to have a major problem if the calendar has a minor malfunction?
diesixdie 2 years ago
sounds like iRobot
StratoArticA 2 years ago 2
hahhaha
pzembashis 2 years ago
creepy indeed...
danijel57 2 years ago 3
Actually a lot of hardware and seperate software was the cause of this as well, not just the OS itself, as chips with embedded systems had the bug as well and hardware had to be replaced. At least with software, a patch was applied in most cases. AS I recall, some MAC software itself was not Y2K compliant, while the underlying OS was, partly in result of it being based on *nix and their method of date calculation in the OS.
xxdigipiratexx 2 years ago
"only macintosh was designed to function perfectly". Perfectly doing what? My friend works at a computer repair shop and he gets konked out Macs in all the time, both software and hardware issues, so whats so fricken perfect about it? Please Apple, stop this smugness youre showing, it only adds to the erection of Steve Jobs' penis.
thrcman 2 years ago
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YAH MACS BLOW macs stands for Macs Are Cheap pieces of Shit MACS
stffpoop112 2 years ago
actually they cost more so they arent cheap.....and they are more productive for....EVERYTHING!
inventorkid13 2 years ago
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sayoian99 2 years ago
im Dave Ming Chan
yodan001 2 years ago
im Nick martin so your point is
stffpoop112 2 years ago
hi Nick, im Dave. nice to meet you
yodan001 2 years ago
ah but you didnt meet me you made an aqwaintance (i know its spelled wrong) with me but yeah nice to meet you to send a friend request to me
stffpoop112 2 years ago
yea, creeeeepy...............
Damn, y2k bug was just another media hype. If you think your system might crash because of this bug, you might want to manually set it to 2000 and see what happens............
theleadprogrammer 2 years ago
creepiest Mac commercial eeveeeeeeeeeeeeeer!
thexpositor 2 years ago
Another annoying Macintosh ad. Mac, we're so smug and superior.
HeyItsTheGodDamn15th 2 years ago 2
Funny how nothing happened one second into the year 2000, nothing ever did happen.
ssssroryssss2 2 years ago
Nothing happened because billions of dollars and millions of man hours were spent correcting the Y2K bug. The media misrepresented the problem from the beginning and hyped it into something it isn't, and now because of that, everyone says that Y2K "never happened".
lemonrind 2 years ago
Huhhuh.....Dave's not here!
Lengsel7 2 years ago
We are all Dave...
Gmancrap 2 years ago
weird!
Dylan6758 3 years ago
I'm not Dave, but I DO like Macs better than PC's...
Ryguy778 3 years ago 3
I find it funny how much hype and money was spent on "fixing" Y2K and how little time and money was spent watching the fing crooks at wall street and at the banks that did INDEED drive the economy into the ground. Ironic.
Zoomer30 3 years ago 2
All the hype over what could have happened because of the Y2K bug, and hardly a thing happened. I remember my brother was all worried that Soviet nuclear missiles in the older installations might launch on their own and blow up the country or something. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Infinitrium 2 years ago
ha! that was funny
Giblinono 3 years ago
like it really happened
tylerwatt12 3 years ago
i may like ipod nano 4g but windows is graet mac is amazimng computers but windows is better trust me yull love vista the power of gates and microsoft+dell
narotu200 3 years ago
Yes, I like my macintosh...
russianbadboy2 3 years ago
Apple needs to make more commercials like they used to!
Xander7879 3 years ago 11
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couldn't computer companies have just tried setting the year as "00" in a computer to see if anything would go wrong before all the hype? This is just like global warming... apocalypse now, proof later. Fallacies in reasoning abound.
well, i remember my school getting imacs in the mid 90's, and i believe i still see lots of them in classrooms still working (they got booted out of the computer lab because the school system wants us to use a business operating system... eww... windows...)
005davidragon 3 years ago
Y2K was never a fallacy in the professional world, although it was in the media. Yes, in many cases computers functioned correctly with an incorrect date. It depended on the application. Y2K was demonstrated to be a show-stopper for many computer systems, and would have prevented many businesses from functioning. Billions of dollars were required to fix the problem, so I don't see how that is a "fallacy".
lemonrind 2 years ago
error
syzyf105 3 years ago
When was this?
SYQProductions 3 years ago
This was for the 1999 Super Bowl, during the Y2K hysteria.
MrUnidyne 3 years ago 2
super bowl ad, I remember it well. I always knew y2k was a load of horseshit though, but man did people lose their shit over it.
neogeon 3 years ago
Y2K...what?
lol
lostfan1978 3 years ago
Id be pretty scared seeing that advert for the first time if i was a mac user called dave lmao
amigaknight 3 years ago
Very funny - I always enjoy a good laugh about my stock piling days...
bogopolis 3 years ago
it was a hoax, many countries spent nothing and nothing happened, who gives a toss if your bill read 00 instead of 2000
banksy35 3 years ago
As a computer scientist, I can assure you that the Y2K problem was NOT a hoax. Many computer programs do mathematical calculations that are dependent on the date. With an incorrect or invalid date, these programs could produce unpredictable results, or simply crash. I know that certain billing systems would produce bills for negative values, incorrect and large positive values, or produce no bills at all. That is just one example.
lemonrind 2 years ago
well as a computer scientist myself - I can tell you it was the greatest money making over reaction ever int I.T. Russia spent 2 per cent of what the US spent and got through it fine. Here's one of many quotes that can be found supporting me - Vivek Wadhwa, chief executive of US-based Relativity Technologies, who advised Terekhov (head of Russia's Competency Centre for Y2K ), said: 'The problem in the West was blown out of all proportion. A lot of people made a lot of money.'
banksy35 2 years ago
2001 a space odyssey with dr heywood floyd and frank poole and Hal
reck101101 3 years ago
ahahaha that's pure genius on mac's part
zeanbean 3 years ago
when people start selling "Y2k compliant flashlights*" you know there's a problem.
*either stuid marketers, or clever marketers targeting stupid people.
poopskinTheLiar 3 years ago
Or maybe it's just a joke?
Stopmotionist 3 years ago
the creepy thing is my name is Dave...
mrguymanjr 3 years ago
This version of Hal reminds me of Hannibal Lecter for some reason.
banedon88 3 years ago 2
But... Apple is seriously arragent...
NixonTech2071 3 years ago 2
"Macs are impossible to crash", they say.. LMFAOz
PortPowerKS 3 years ago 2