In Any Language
You may have noticed, oh you have, that I've been a little preoccupied with my new iMac so you probably won't be surprised to learn that I was attracted to this which led to this. This young lady tells it like it is.
I listened to the ad in its entirety and found nothing I disagreed with. I shrugged when she shrugged, I was disgusted when she was disgusted, angry when she was angry, and finally I was happy when she was happy. I don't have the the foggiest notion what the words were (perhaps Jonathon will translate it for us) other than computer and Switch, but they had the ring of truth. (Quicktime required)
note: I still don't work in the PR department at Apple.
Comments
Since you are a dedicated Mac user, perhaps you could resolve my Mac frustrations. I have plenty of complaints about PCs in general, and Microsoft in particular. I do have a Dell notebook, however, which I am quite happy with.
As for Macs, they are recommended to me by many of my most intelligent and competent friends. However, whenever I have used them, they irritate me to no end. Much of this has to do with the fact that I am used to Windows, and so I want the Mac to do Windows things in the way that Windows does it. Also, my main exposure to Macs is in the school computer clusters--this may not be a very representative sample.
Still:
I frequently get the 'out of memory' message when downloading routine files, after which the Mac simply refuses to perform the task.
The one-click mouse means that you have to highlight, then move to the toolbar to cut or paste. On a PC your can just highlght and then cut with the right click menu. The scroll button--missing from Mac mice--is also nice to have.
Managing the open windows is difficult because you end up searching through layers of window instead of simply clicking on the window button at the bottom of the screen, as you do in windows.
I am no partisan of PCs--but does the Mac man have anything to help my attitude toward Macs?
Norm, I won't worry with an exact translations of the ad in which Kikuchi Momoko appears but the gist of it is that she's really pissed off with the computer she had before: a PC. As an example, she was writing an email in English to a friend -- a difficult task to which she'd devoted an enormous amount of effort -- when, just as she was about to send it, her PC froze and she lost everything. (One wonders why she didn't save the email as she was writing it, but this is an Apple ad.) "Honestly," she says, "the PC is unusable!" But, with her Macintosh, everything works smoothly.
Dende Blogger, the shithouse Macintosh mouse is one thing that would stop me switching back, but I'm pretty sure you can use a two button (Microsoft) mouse on a Macintosh. Still, as I admitted in Phil Ringnalda's comments a few days ago, I'm wavering.
dende,
Jonathon is right about the shithouse mouse. You can get a two button mouse however. I was annoyed by the lack of the second button but have gotten used to the control click, the Mac equivalent. The memory issue on download's I haven't experienced I suspect the campus Macs probably have 64 Meg of memory and that along with using Microsoft Explorer, which I believe leaks memory like a sieve is the explanation. As I understand it every time you open another window it grabs memory and refuses to play fair keeping it for some nefarious Bill Gates inspired reason. The open window issue I now deal with by using command w which closes the active window.
Jonathon thanks once again for your insights.