Windows 7 Adverts (UK ones atleast) - do the annoy anyone else? :S

[~Darkseeker~]

Those adverts, where they take a person who more than likely just uses email and facebook on a reasonably old computer, then force a mid-range looking laptop on them, so they can use facebook at a million fps.

The most recent one is the worst, that PC is only 4 years old, probably not a bad PC.

 

[clacker]

It doesn't make any sense, what do they mean when they say "I'm a PC".

 

[foothead]

It doesn't make any sense, what do they mean when they say "I'm a PC".

It's from the old mac commercials.

Did they not show these in the UK? They were really popular here for a while.


And are you referring to the commercials where they make someone's living room look like Best Buy? I always use media center, so I haven't seen any of the newer ones.

 

[~Darkseeker~]

^ yeah, like some middle-aged woman being forced to upgrade their probably perfectly ample computers lol

 

[clacker]

Those adverts, where they take a person who more than likely just uses email and facebook on a reasonably old computer, then force a mid-range looking laptop on them, so they can use facebook at a million fps.

The most recent one is the worst, that PC is only 4 years old, probably not a bad PC.

They're just trying to make people think that they have to upgrade their computer every four years, quite a good idea really.

 

[berry120]

It's not just PC advertising. Most advertising in general works by trying to force stuff on people that they don't need... it's how the world works these days!

 

[David Lindon]

Yeah, the one on the radio with the school kid saying how word art is going to make their essays look much better. Word out for essays? I certainly don't remember being encouraged to do anything like that, you should be more focused on the grammar and spelling etc

 

[~Darkseeker~]

If i'd used the tacky crap in Word Art in anything i did in high/secondary school, i'd probably have it thrown back at me D:

 

[berry120]

Word art has been available since office 95 (I can confess to using it back when I didn't know better...) not sure why they're suddenly pushing it for essays though - it was bad enough watching tacky year 7 powerpoint presentations using wordart on every slide...

 

[dorfman]

Are we really complaining about people probably getting free P.C's from a commercial?

At any rate: Those people probably had XP (which Microsoft does not support anymore) or the God awful Vista...

It could be like Apple who releases a new product every year so you HAVE to go buy it. Iphone 5?... Ipad 2? exactly.