Robert Webb explains the Mac vs. PC adverts

Robert Webb on Have I Got News For You? explaining the "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" advert paradox.

Sorry about the quality, by the way.

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[kisbie]

@fabledpilgrim He's saying that a British person would naturally side with Microsoft - the dorky underdog character - in those ads (and that Apple would come across as unbearably smug and trivial). Supposedly, Americans see it differently - or at least in the world of marketing.

[fabledpilgrim]

@UnaccountablySelfy I think what he meant was that the original american advert idea of the mac person and the pc person doesn't work in the UK, hence the 'American's don't get it about us.' I might be wrong though.

[Zuriki09]

@LemonZeppelin That's not necessarily true. You can't really replace mac hardware without going directly to the manufacturer, however let's say my graphics card fries. I can just go and buy any PCIe graphics card and it should work as long as nothing else was damaged. Or, if it's a software issue, I can easily reinstall the OS from scratch if needs be -- though if you're sensible, you shouldn't really ever get a virus.

[LemonZeppelin]

@rayblack2004 but arguably worth it as they last longer than PCs.

[martinmerrywinkle]

the only time you want a mac is if you are ONLY doing video & music editing. PC's aren't much better, the things are designed (oldest buisiness trick going) to go wrong/slow to a crawl after a while, so you have to reinstall the OS

[Raventoll]

@kisbie To be fair, most savvy Americans had learned to piece a PC together from parts earlier and just updated the rigs. Mac's basic concept was all about the smug factor. They didn't use PC parts, PC software, anything that was universal save for, eventually, the USB port.

So you understand it better when you realize that the Mac ads were, primarily, to attract the smug, arrogant asses that couldn't be bothered with a normal computer, regardless of their actual quality.

Like abbey crunch.

[ScreamingAtOwls]

@rayblack2004: ...as fuck!

[spacecowboy7580]

@toolworks

Yes..and Lenny Henry.

[toolworks]

@spacecowboy7580 I agree with with Russell Howard, but i love Peep Show and That Michell and Webb Look too much to agree with Robert. May I add Ross Noble to the not funny comedians list?

[spacecowboy7580]

@galieo2007

Why don't you look and read comments properly before sending moronic questions?..if you had done so you'd have noticed I put " comedians " ,.which tells anyone with half a brain( don't include yourself ),  that I don't actually regard them as comedians.

[galieo2007]

@spacecowboy7580 since when was russel grant a comedian?

[mukers]

@MegaMrDamo Couldn't have said it better, other than we don't like it cheap but we dont want to pay too much for what is essentially a shiney PC thats primarily made for "tossers"