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The Get a Mac advertisements follow a standard template. They open to a plain white background, and a man dressed in casual clothes introduces himself as an Apple Mac computer ("Hello, I'm a Mac."), while a man in a more formal suit-and-tie combination introduces himself as a Microsoft Windows personal computer ("And I'm a PC.").
John Kellogg Hodgman (born June 3, 1971) is an American author, actor, and humorist. In addition to his published written works, such as his satirical trilogy The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, and That Is All, he is known for his personification of a PC in contrast to Justin Long's personification of a Mac in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertising campaign, and for his ...
I'm a PC. " I'm a PC " (also known as Pride) is a television advertising campaign created for Microsoft by ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CPB). The series first began to appear in September, 2008. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The new series of commercials replace those that featured the pairing of Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates .
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is borrowing a few leaves out of Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) advertising playbook in a recent spate of advertisements aimed at the iPhone maker. What Happened ...
1984 (advertisement) " 1984 " is an American television commercial that introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer. It was conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas, and Lee Clow at Chiat/Day, produced by New York production company Fairbanks Films, and directed by Ridley Scott.
The ads, which are directed by Phil Morrison, star actor Justin Long and author and humorist John Hodgman (The Daily Show) as a Macintosh (Mac) computer and a Windows PC, respectively. Since the launch of the original ads, similar commercials have appeared in Japan and the UK.
John David McAfee (/ ˈmækəfiː / MAK-ə-fee; [5][6] 18 September 1945 – 23 June 2021) was a British-American computer programmer, businessman, and two-time presidential candidate who unsuccessfully sought the Libertarian Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and in 2020. In 1987, he wrote the first commercial anti ...
It didn’t. When contacted by a reporter, Al Mac’s owner Cliff Ponte said he had no idea the commercial existed. An apparently fake version of Fall River's Al Mac's Diner appears in an ...