Apple Pulls 'Convince Your Parents to Get You a Mac' Ad from YouTube
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Which of these guys (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_a_Mac) would throw a slide deck at their parents and which would buy his own laptop from the money he made filming skateboarding videos with his amazing iphone 18 camera?
He also gave a very memorable and completely inane speech to our entire school that involved him stomping on a loaf of bread while running for student council (and won). The coolness isn't so much in the tools as the way they are used.
[EDIT]: Archived Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHFUmPbODbI
> This video contains content from Apple, who has blocked it on copyright grounds
I mean the whole "I'm a mac" campaign really cemented their style as fart huffing
All because they had a stupid marketing event. Sheesh.
Sure; you should know how to use Office products, but to claim that using a Microsoft OS would somehow be a requirement to get a job is absolutely hilarious.
“We have Apple Silicon at home.”
Apple Silicon at home:
The truth is, a Mac is probably best for most college students. I had to make my case for why my parents should buy me a Mac for college (in an all-windows family) and was successful. My dad worked in tech, thought the MacBook was overrated, and loved windows (at the time). A few years later my dad got my sister one when she went to college and again a few years after that when the other sister went.
He later told me “That was the best decision I ever made, you know how many calls I got about issues with their computers? Zero”. Contrast that with rebuilding the family windows computer at least once a year due to some virus/spyware/malware that was infecting it when they lived at home.
MacBooks also hold their value well and are well made (butterfly keyboards notwithstanding). They are great value for the cost. I paid ~$1,000 for my first Mac and it got me through college without issue while I had friends who bought the bargain bin windows $400-500 machine and very few if any of them survived 4 years, the ones that did had batteries that didn’t last or parts literally falling off them.
Things may have improved in the subsequent 15 years (I don’t think they could’ve gotten worse on the window side) but I still recommend people get a Mac unless they have some software that they need that can’t run on it (normally only specialized things). For most people and in most cases it really does “just work”.
And I didn't worry about someone stealing it.
For some of my friends outside of STEM degrees, a Chromebook would have (mostly) been fine. Given that our laptops were a major source of entertainment for us at the time, I think something with enough power for indie gaming and HD video is a must.
My classes, though, didn't need them.
Windows: hackable by anyone, usually inadvertently so.
Phones: locked down and hostile to all attempts of tinkering.
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Microsoft’s attempt at the locked-down-by-default approach with S Mode was half-assed in its effort and held back by ecosystem inertia.
I think the only feasible way to achieve this with the win32 ecosystem is a pubesos + wine approach.