NDA! Laptop Lauren can't say what she thinks of that $700 HP

WalterBillington

#1 – 4:26 AM March 31, 2009

Fantastic detective work everyone - what a show-up.

The Morgan

#2 – 4:54 AM March 31, 2009

Yeah, what a show-up that the actress in an advertisement turned out to be an actress.

Why have so many Mac folk gotten all agitated about this advert?

Newsflash: I'm a Mac isn't really a Mac, he's actually an actor called Justin Long. OH MY GOD. The SKY is falling! I was sure he was a computer!

"Laptop Lauren can't say what she thinks of that $700 HP"

What an awesomely loaded way to put it.

Anonymous Anonymous

#3 – 4:54 AM March 31, 2009

I'll bet her hair isn't naturally curly or red either. I'll never trust another TV commercial! Score one for the Apple detectives.

strider_mt2k

#4 – 4:54 AM March 31, 2009

I will never trust another television commercial ag...again.

(hangs head)

PaulR

#5 – 5:45 AM March 31, 2009

To be fair:

What would the experience with a $700 Mac laptop be like?

dculberson

#6 – 6:21 AM March 31, 2009

Paulr: Tumbleweeds.

killdeer

#7 – 6:31 AM March 31, 2009

The Spicy Meatball guy actually needed Alka Seltzer. I'm sure it was completely unscripted.

strider_mt2k

#8 – 6:38 AM March 31, 2009

THE SPICY MEATBALL GUY TOO???

Oh, all bets are OFF man!

ALL BETS ARE OFF!!

(curls up shivering)

theawesomerobot

#9 – 6:40 AM March 31, 2009

NEWSFLASH: commercials may not be accurate depictions of real life.

Wordguy

#10 – 6:52 AM March 31, 2009

Does this mean the Zoom Zoom kid wasn't driving those Mazdas either? Wtf?

PaulR

#11 – 6:57 AM March 31, 2009

dculberson @5,

Um, an brushed aluminum-skinned abacus signed by Jobs?

With white earphones?

Roy Blake

#12 – 8:31 AM March 31, 2009

Actually the only really interesting thing about that ad is that it's for a software company, but it doesn't mention software at all!

dross1260

#13 – 8:49 AM March 31, 2009

Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine! Kool-Aid.

agraham999

#14 – 9:03 AM March 31, 2009

I think what's funny is when this ad came out everyone was all "finally an ad that tells the truth about Macs!"

Now that the "real person" is a SAG member, working actor, and her laptop turns out to be a piece of crap it's all

"What do you expect, it's a commercial."

blip

#15 – 9:04 AM March 31, 2009

I expect some kind of truth. Too much for some, it seems.

Anonymous Anonymous

#16 – 9:05 AM March 31, 2009

wow, good work googling her name and finding www.laurendelong.com

dculberson

#17 – 9:07 AM March 31, 2009

Agraham, you have a funny definition of 'everyone.'

bex

#18 – 9:15 AM March 31, 2009

Vista mostly runs fine the problem is vendors crapwareing the PCS.

I dont want google this and than installed (same with yahoo stuff)

Trial norton , give use a break

Trial Office just confuses people into thinking they have the full thing (I have seen stickers on laptops saying microsoft office is installed and in molecule sized letters it says its a trial)

You can pick a decent Dual core intel 17 incher for less than £450 and I would have plumped for one of those.

The criticism about this laptops screen if true need sorting out

The DDR2 instead of DDR3 is just looking for excuses

agraham999

#19 – 9:34 AM March 31, 2009

#17: Do I? I'm not sure I included a definition of "everyone." But okay...why not...everyone meaning a huge amount of commenters on the previous post and in articles around the web all proclaimed how great this ad was. Now it is time I guess for the apologists.

username

#20 – 9:55 AM March 31, 2009

jesus, people are really sensitive about electronics purchases made by other people. use whatever fucking computer you want, i'll do the same. i'll even go one step further and promise not to feign outrage that someone in a commercial is an actor. this is idiotic.

Brettspiel

#21 – 9:56 AM March 31, 2009

The "Dude, yer gettin a Dell" guy did turn out to be a real pothead.

Mr_Voodoo

#22 – 11:49 AM March 31, 2009

@username... ditto.

I don't care what kind of computer she uses. She's cute. I hope all the attention gets her a few more acting gigs.

And I'm getting all kinds of tired of the Mac v. PC shit, from both sides. Buy what you want, use it, and be done with it. If so much of your identity is tied up in your gadgets, then you seriously need to re-evaluate some core issues.

Honestly, go read a book or something.

LightningRose

#23 – 12:20 PM March 31, 2009

I don't care. I'd still do her.

bowlerhatdinosaur

#24 – 12:21 PM March 31, 2009

Guys, I was doing some research online and it I found out John Hodgman isn't really a PC! When will these commercials stop lying to us!?

wrybread

#25 – 12:49 PM March 31, 2009

I can't help it, I still find it interesting that there seems to be an inverse relationship between love of Vista and good writing skills. The greater the love of Vista, the more broken the writing will be.

See @18 above (my apologies if English isn't your first language) and SteveJobsIsGod and a bunch of others in the previous thread.

wrybread

#26 – 1:01 PM March 31, 2009

And parenthetically, my big moment of disillusion with advertising came when I worked an event at the Gallo winery. Remember those Bartles & James ads where the two old guys were sitting on a stoop talking about wine coolers? Obviously they were actors, but they even created a fake stoop for the shoot, which still stands at the Gallo winery. I mean christ, couldn't they at least have found a real stoop? But no, its just a facade of a stoop and porch, absolutely nothing real about any part of it.

I know I know, ads are fake, but for some reason that drove home the extent of how fake they are.

Halloween Jack

#27 – 2:12 PM March 31, 2009

Why have so many Mac folk gotten all agitated about this adverthot and bothered by this adorable ginger pixie?

FTFY. And I, too, am rather amazed that anyone thought that this was not scripted; then again, I forget that not everyone is as smart as the average Apple fanboy.

Halloween Jack

#28 – 2:18 PM March 31, 2009

No strikethrough? Why do so many blog comment spaces disallow it?

Anonymous Anonymous

#29 – 3:10 AM April 1, 2009

Gasp! People we see in Microsoft advertisements are actors! How deceptive. I know Apple would never use actors in their advertising.

lightbender

#30 – 5:33 AM April 1, 2009

I googled Steve Jobs and found out he isn't human!

Well, I guess we have known that for years.

Anonymous Anonymous

#31 – 9:15 AM April 1, 2009

"What would the experience with a $700 Mac laptop be like?"

Well, I bought a refurb iBook G4 in 2005 for $849 (yeah I know, more than $700) and have really enjoyed using it. I did add more RAM a year ago.

Overall it has been the best (and cheapest) of the four laptops I have owned sequentially, prior three ran Windows. I will be looking to replace it with an aluminum refurb Mac eventually, maybe in a year or so. My first real computer experience was on a Mac and my only regret is that I chose a Windows machine back in 93 when I bought my first computer and waited so long to switch back.

You may be able to buy a computer running Windows cheaper than one running Mac OS but I think the Mac lasts longer and so is cheaper over its life and is more enjoyable to use the whole time. (After the first week with a Mac I realized how frustrating using Windows was.)

PaulR

#32 – 11:59 AM April 1, 2009

Anonymous @ #31:

Two words: Panasonic CF-anything.

Refurbished, used, demo, they can be found for less than $1,000.

THEN we drive a Hummer over yours and mine. Or use 'em in the rain. Whatever.