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hehe2.net - 11/17/2008

WTF?! Is It Just Me or Is That a Mac In A Vista Ad??

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I know that this is a Linux blog, and thats what readers have come to expect. But sometimes one encounters stuff that is just too good to pass. So that other day my dad bought a new HP Pavilion desktop, and since I am the geek in residence I ended up setting it up for him. So while I was waiting ...

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wolphbite.com - 11/14/2008

My New Mac Pro Ultra Mini

— wolphbite.com — How I converted a “dead” Apple MacBook to a Mac Pro Ultra Mini. Digg it here A... Little Background: I was given a “dead” 13″ MacBook that had water poured on it. After taking it apart and testing I found that the ... (more) My New Mac Pro Ultra Mini

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macgamesarcade.com - 11/14/2008

Mac Games Arcade - Games at your Fingertips

— macgamesarcade.com — Calgary, Canada – Macgamestore.com today announced Mac Games Arcade, an exciting new digital download application for Mac... OS X. Mac Games Arcade allows users to download, purchase and manage their Mac games all through an innovative and easy-to-use ... (more) Mac Games Arcade - Games at your Fingertips

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livescribe.com - 11/17/2008

: Start Here

— livescribe.com — * Note to Mac™ users: We are actively developing a native Mac solution and will have a... public beta available for download in early December 08 (Works with Intel Mac OS X 10.5 or later). Please note that our product is not currently compatible with ... (more) : Start Here

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Microsoft Uses Macbook Pro in Marketing Fluff
The Raw Feed — One alert blogger noticed that promotional Microsoft fluff bundled with a new PC talks about organizing photos and videos on a Windows PC, but the PICTURE SHOWS A MACBOOK PRO. Let me explain this. Companies like Microsoft either buy stock photos or hire designers, who hire photographers and orchestrate the photo shoots. Designers are Mac users, and most have never actually seen Windows or PCs. To the design community, PCs = Macs and Macs = PCs.

Wait, is that a MacBook Pro in this Vista ad?
CrunchGear — The above is a scan of some Windows Vista promotional material. But, is that an old MacBook Pro this perfect family is using? Now, Apple doesn’t have a monopoly on silver laptops chassis but wouldn’t it have been wiser to have something more distinctly PC? Or what about this? These sure do look like PS3 controllers, but again, there are plain ol’ PC controllers that resemble PlayStation controllers. Surely someone at the Vista marketing department must know that the Xbox 360 controllers work perfectly ...

Microsoft's PR blunder: MacBook Pro and PS3 promote Vista
TG Daily - All News — ... in a recent Microsoft PR campaign. A Microsoft marketing brochure bundled with OEM systems shows images of Apple's MacBook Pro and kids holding Playstation 3 controllers. It does not really matter how many millions of dollars you sink into marketing campaigns and promotional materials, subtle errors can sneak through several levels of review. A recent incident at Microsoft however may be a bit embarrassing, at least if customers are looking a bit closer at those images. According to Rami Taibah over at the Hehe2 blog , a Vista booklet that came with a brand new HP Pavilion ...

Funny ad: Microsoft uses MacBook & PlayStation 3 to promote Vista
PalmAddicts — ... is not likely to promote its own rival's products in their own marketing brochure. So the blame should goes to the software maker's creative agency that created the booklet using stock images, without paying a closer look at them. Microsoft should reconsider paying too much to the creative agencies it is using to make that booklet, this proves how ineffective it is the huge pile of money Microsoft throwing to create a better image of Windows Vista. ;-p Sources are from Hehe2 blog, via TG Daily. ...