Apple’s Advertising Budget Is Bigger Than Microsoft Vista’s

Microsoft's expenditure is known to be $300 million for Vista. But the article is comparing this to Apple's total budget.

Apple still has iPod commercials, for instance. The portion spent on the Mac probably isn't "bigger" than Vista's.

Exceeding what I was guesstimating over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338862

Perhaps one should compare the sophistication of the two ad campaigns?