Macs, games, and football

I have to say, Apple seems a little desperate. Why oh why do they have to rely on degrading the opponent for their commercials? They seem to have to say that PC = bad and headaches, while saying very little else about themselves. It is almost as if they don't want to compare themselves, for fear that the truth of how they compare may be shown. Come on Apple, stop it with these stupid commercials, and instead be like what Microsoft has done, show your strong points.

Anyways, time to talk football! I love the way the Longhorns looked on Saturday. They played a strong game, and looked great doing it. I loved the first half. My only problem with this game was Colt's interception. Very sad.

I have also been hearing a lot about how people are chatting, saying that the UT/OU game was very sloppy. I know saying this now is a little late, by two weeks, but I don't care. If this was a SEC game, those same people would be praising it as a defensive battle, which it was. Sure, it was sloppy, but that is classic SEC style. The defenses were the stars of that show.

On to games! So, my school has a club called LAG. They meet every so often to play games, usually zombie games, and have tons of fun. Well, at the last one we played a game called Zombie Maze, a custom map on Halo 3. It is hilariously awesome. Pretty much the survivors have to make their way through three areas that are part of a giant maze and have to reach an exit door. There, one of the people has to face a keypad on the wall while the others carry on with the zombie killing while the guy facing the keypad puts down his controller and goes to do three tangrams. These three tangram puzzles represent figuring out the code to escape.

This is harder than it sounds. Even when we had seven people protecting the decoder, the tangrams killed us. those things are hard! The closest we got was finishing two after trying for ten minutes. It was pathetic looking. We never escaped.

If you own Halo 3, I seriously suggest getting this map, especially if you have many friends who like fun too.

Apple Ads

Howdy All!

Instead of this being a random thought themed blog, it is starting to turn into just a ranting area for me. Well, hopefully that will not be the case.

Time for Rant 3!

So, for the past four commercial periods, I have seen at least one Apple v. PC ad. The two that I can remember are the ones where they are talking about "Apple Innovation" and the one where they have that "top of the line PC"

My first problem with these ads are they have to point out bad things about the PC in comparison to the Mac. There is one apple commercial I like, and it really said nothing about the PC. Instead it talking about how they are making more environmentally friendly laptops. Good for them! The problem is the bulk of their commercials are bashing the PC. It looks like dirty election tactics.

The second problem is they are telling half lies with these commercials. It is true that the Apple OS is more stable than Microsoft's, and Microsoft does tend to crash more and have some problems. The problem is that the Mac also crashes and has problems. In the commercial the "top of the line PC" says that "any PC you get is gonna have those problems" This is an outright LIE! I know many people who don't have any major problems with their PC. The only problems they have are when they install something wrong on their computer, or they try to fix said problem with their computer.

My last computer never failed me with BSODs, and only had a few errors with programs. The only system failures I had came from failing hardware, like the power supply and overheating, and when I tried to reinstall drivers for the graphic card after reformatting the drive. All of this happened after I had it for a few years. Of course, this doesn't make them true liers, but under their implied meaning, they completely lie, since they imply that PCs have major problems while the Mac has none.

The other commercial talks about their innovations like the Mag-safe power cord, which is very nice. But, the commercial implies that PCs are not safe from being pulled while the cord is tripped on. So far, all PC power chords I have see come out easy when tripped over. The only time my laptop has been pulled was when the cord was positioned in such a way where it went under the laptop, and the person walked across it. I concede that their cord is safer, but their commercial is deceiving.

They could be meaning actual desktops, in which case, the cords shouldn't even be exposed for a tripping hazard. Most towers will be placed on a desk with the cords not stretched across walkways. If they are, then sorry to offend anyone, you are stupid. It is an partially asinine move for one reasons you are being inconsiderate by causing a hazard. It is stupid because you are risking your desktop to a hazard.

I just saw another ad from Mac, the one about how all of a Mac is made by one company, while a PC is from all sorts of places.

I am not too good at economics or anything, but I do know what I am talking about when I say they are overpriced. There was a business back in the olden days that bought pretty much everything that dealt with their product, from the herds of cow, to the train system that brought them to different place, as well as the processing plants and distributor. This person could lower prices below other companies and thus out sell everyone. The thing with Mac is, either they don't understand this concept, or they just want a giant profit.

I don't know their actual revenue, or how much profit they make on everything they sell, but they need to drop their prices. You can buy a PC for very cheap, while a Mac of similar specs runs for much more.

Overall, I hate these commercials because they give you half truths and use deceiving dialog to try and sell their products. I have a few other problems with Apple that I am sure to mention within future posts of mine, but for now my rant is done.

Hope you all enjoyed another episode of Eldorn's rant corner.

Peace
-Eld