We close out the week with a deal on a MacBook Pro, a game and the current iPod nano. For $1,499, you can get a MacBook Pro with a 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo processor and a 15-inch screen. If you’d like to try your hand at a bombing run on your iPhone or iPod touch,

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Daily Deals: $1,499 2.53GHz MacBook Pro, Bombardiers Guild, $120 8GB iPod nano

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8OKFle2gGk Having long hated Apple’s Get a Mac campaign, I was surprised to find myself getting sentimental as I watched this three-minute tribute to the whole Mac vs. PC saga, as put together by OneMoreThing. Minimize Justin Long’s lugubrious smarm and what you’re left with is the core strength of the campaign anyway: John Hodgman’s consistently

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Relive 5 Years of “Get A Mac” in Five Minutes

Section: Apple News , Commercials and Ads Your favorite comical Get a Mac ads you have grown up with have seemingly been canceled. Instead of appearing on Apple’s website under www.apple.com/getamac, you will now be redirected to a page about Why You’ll Love a Mac . Furthermore, it appears as if Apple has taken them off of their site all together; searching for “Get a Mac” yields no results. Luckily, all of the ads can easily be found on YouTube via a simple search or at sites created for Get a Mac ad lovers. There has been no word from Apple about this cancellation, but perhaps a new ad campaign is in the works. Either that, or it’s just another pointer in the direction Apple is heading. Instead of advertising their Mac platform, we now see more ads for the iPad and iPhone. I think this potential ad paradigm shift is of some importance.

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Apple cancels “Get a Mac” ads?

Filed under: Apple Last month we reported that Justin Long, who plays Mac in the Get a Mac ads, hinted that the advertising campaign had come to an end. Now it seems confirmed; the ads, first broadcast in 2006, can’t even be found on the Apple page. Instead, the usual link now takes you to a page explaining the reasons that you should buy a Mac . OneMoreThingPodcast has put together this fitting tribute to the many 30 second gems that have amused us over the last five years. I’m sure you’ll find some of your favorite highlights in the video. So, I suppose it’s back to making movies for Long, and back to The Daily Show for John Hodgman (an Apple user for over 20 years ), giving up the role of PC. Rest in peace, Get a Mac campaign. You were a good soldier. Video tribute to the Get a Mac ad campaign originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 22 May 2010 17:00:00 EST

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Video tribute to the Get a Mac ad campaign

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNnX6XRQBec It looks like the final curtain has closed on Apple’s award-winning “Get a Mac” campaign launched in 2006. Apple has pulled the ads from the company site, the page now redirects visitors to “Why You’ll Love a Mac.” (Nostalgics can still find them on YouTube, though.) The last ones, released in October 2009, were surprisingly clever but

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“Get A Mac” Ad Campaign Over?

Despite common consensus and Apple’s own “Get a Mac” ad campaign propaganda,, Macs certainly aren’t immune to the threats of viruses and malware: they’re just less likely to be infected by them, thanks to OS X’s excellent security measures and the operating system’s relative low market share compared to Windows. As OS X rapidly gains

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OS X Malware Software HellRTS.D Will Open A Backdoor On Your Mac

Gaines Kergosien filmed this amusing little interlude at Trevecca Nazarene University the other day. A student politely asked Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to sign his Mac – and Ballmer genially played along. Next week, Sergey and Larry will be doing guest slots in a “Get a Mac” ad, with Sergey as Mac and Larry as

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Steve Ballmer Signs A Mac

Section: Apple , Apple News , Commercials If you’re into marketing and advertising or just simply find Apple’s Get a Mac ad campaign interesting, you might want to visit AdWeek’s website. They’ve set up a page that has all 66 (yes, 66) advertisements from the campaign so far. They’re organized chronologically and categorized by the year in which they came out. It’s some pretty awesome stuff, in my opinion. You can visit the page at their website and get caught in hours of advertisements if you’re into that sort of thing. Apple’s Get a Mac campaign has certainly left an impression upon those who view them (after all, it was the “Best Video Ad Campaign” last year according to US News). From attacking Windows 7 to covering Apple’s innovations to touting new features , Apple’s ads are both comical and ingenious. And who knows, maybe soon we’ll be seeing “Get an Apple Tablet ” advertisements on our TVs. Those could certainly provide some interesting ideas about the tablet market up to the point where Apple begins to (hopefully) dominate it and actually make a use for tablet computers for the average person (sort of like the iPhone, ‘ey?). Read [ AdWeek ] Full Story » | Written by Josh Holat for Appletell . | Comment on this Article »

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Obsessed with Get a Mac ads? There’s a site for that.

Filed under: Steve Jobs , Apple The end of the year brings the inevitable “best/worst of” lists, and 2009 was no different. We reported earlier that Apple nabbed four of Engadget’s “10 Gadgets of the Decade” list, but what may be surprising is just how many other “best of” lists Apple was part of. Philip Elmer-DeWitt over at Apple 2.0 has compiled a list (surprise!) of all the “best of” lists Apple made in 2009. The lists that he found Apple or Steve Jobs on included: S teve Jobs : CEO of the Decade. Fortune magazine. Steve Jobs : Best Performing CEO in the World. Harvard Business Review . Steve Jobs : Person of the Decade. Wall Street Journal. Apple : Brand of the Decade. Adweek ‘s Best of the 2000s.

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Apple tops "Best of" 2009 lists

Microsoft has a rather ignoble history when it comes to trying to counter Apple’s hyper-effective and popular “Get a Mac” campaign. Their first efforts were just embarrassing: a series of advertisements featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates awkwardly mumbling non sequiturs at one another. That desperate bid for hipness failed, and so Microsoft launched their

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