Deb’s Blog of Mac, Life, and Stuff

Recently I helped a friend buy a new MacBook Pro. It arrived and as he excitedly opened it his wife, seeing the beautiful slim silver beauty asked how come he got plain silver instead of choosing the striking red one like I had.

My striking red MacBook Pro is courtesy of Speck. It’s called the SeeThru Satin. I wasn’t a huge fan of the hard shell until I saw and then touched this one. It was, however, difficult to choose a color! The purple really had me too. And the pink. I finally selected the red one, which is called cranberry, because of the Apple logo looking red.

http://www.speckproducts.com/products/seethru-satin/macbook-pro-15-aluminum-black-keys/164

I saw the new Microsoft PC commercials today. Each tracks a person who goes computer shopping. The person expresses his/her needs. “To me, the Mac is all about esthetics, one man says.” So the person chooses a computer – a PC, of course, and gets handed the cash to pay for it.

My first thought:
Too bad these people aren’t being given money to buy software to run on these PCs — or money to buy virus and other internet protection.

The woman in the first commercial I saw said she didn’t want to spend $1,000 on a 13″ screen. So she got a PC that was $699. Now she just has to spend a few hundred dollars on necessary software that would not have been necessary if she’d selected the Mac! I sure hope her time isn’t worth as much as a penny because she’ll be spending a lot of time working out the hassles. (And I do wonder  what the resolution is on the 17″ that she selected because it might just be close to the same as what she’d have on the smaller, lighter MacBook.) 

Maybe they’re just paid actors, rather than true suckers. 
But I feel bad for the people who watch these ads and fall for them.