Apple Pulls 'Convince Your Parents To Get You a Mac' Ad From YouTube (macrumors.com) 46
Apple has quietly removed its day-old "The Parent Presentation" video from YouTube. From a report: The Parent Presentation is a customizable slideshow that explains why a Mac is a useful tool in college. [...] Students can customize the presentation slides, and then show it to their parents to convince them to buy them a Mac. In an accompanying YouTube video shared by Apple, comedian Martin Herlihy showed a group of high school students how to effectively use The Parent Presentation. Some users described the ad as "cringe" and "gross."
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The answer seems to be here [wikipedia.org].
Baldoni hired a firm to discredit Blake on social media. Apparently, one of the things this firm does is bot-post on every single slashdot story.
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I am confused, what does this have to do with Blake Lively?
AC presumably asked Blake Lively out on a date and got told to fuck off and now is having trouble dealing emotionally with his rejection.
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I call bullshit.
There is NO WAY AC is not routinely and often told to "fuck off", and has therefore gotten used to it by now.
Kids these days (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Kids these days (Score:4, Insightful)
My son is in college.
He says the dorks run Windows, the cool liberal arts kids use Macs, and the techies run Linux on their laptops.
He's a techie, so he uses Linux.
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Yeah, but what laptop hardware is your son running Linux on?
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As far as I know, running Linux on a MacBook is still messy, and requires some fiddling: To quote r/linux4noobs: "Typically what happens is something does not work. You google it. You find that the problem is caused by missing firmware. You google it some more. You find instructions that tell you how to copy the missing firmware from MacOS to Linux."
While I still remember copying my first slackware distro (featuring kernel 0.99something) to a couple of floppy disks to install on my shiny i386, honestly I ha
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Saying "Linux runs on Macs" when it's only inside a VM is very much stretching the truth beyond the breaking point. Yes, it runs inside a VM, but that gives you all the limitations a VM has (limited hardware acceleration, usually bridged networking or peripheral access, etc.). For some limited use cases, VMs are a good thing, but Linux does not "run on the Mac" that way.
All the stuff I said remains true, except maybe for the "firmware" thingie, they probably ment to say "driver", but that was a quote anyway
Don't project Asahi Linux problems onto Parallels (Score:2)
Saying "Linux runs on Macs" when it's only inside a VM is very much stretching the truth beyond the breaking point.
Really. ARM based Debian on an M4 Mini seems pretty much identical to my Intel based Debian running directly on a NUC. Except faster.
Yes, it runs inside a VM, but that gives you all the limitations a VM has (limited hardware acceleration, usually bridged networking or peripheral access, etc.).
"Yes, Debian virtual machines in Parallels Desktop can utilize hardware acceleration, specifically through Parallels' Virtio GPU implementation."
[Google]
Would it run faster if native, sure. Would one notice a difference, probably not. Don't project Asahi Linux problems onto Parallels. Parallels is willing to sign an NDA with Apple and get access to documentation and code t
Re:Kids these days (Score:5, Funny)
"He says the dorks run Windows..."
He inherited his sophisticated takes from his dad.
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Other than their choice of OS what is the difference between dorks and techies?
do dorks game more and techies are writing python programs?
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Probably Business School kids and PoliSci/Communications majors.
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81 sildes (Score:2)
What parent is sitting through 81 slides of sales pitch for a Mac?
https://docs.google.com/presen... [google.com]
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What parent is sitting through 81 slides of sales pitch for a Mac?
Worse, it's actually a template. So presumably, you'd already need access to a computer to modify the presentation and then show it to your folks.
Then of course, most parents who don't have an extra grand kicking around to buy their kid a Mac are probably just going to say something along the lines of "Get a job and buy it yourself."
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I gotta admit, the 13" Macbook Air is a good choice for college students. It's relatively fast, built well, reliable, and isn't nearly as overpriced as a Macbook Pro.
If my kid used this presentation on me, I'd be sold. Although, personally, I'd like a Lenovo T series instead because I know that I'm going to have to deal some at least one oddball software version for a class that only works on Windows.
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Whether I'm buying or not, there is no way I'm sitting through those slides.
I have 3 kids, two like Windows and one likes Mac. As long as they use it I'm fine with whatever. If I buy you a Mac don't bitch at me that it doesn't play Fortnite.
Saved me a ton of money (Score:5, Funny)
My son showed me this and I was impressed! I told him that the skill required to plan such a persuasive presentation, not to mention the graphic design and the execution of the presentation - would usually require a team of highly experienced marketing people. With innate skills like that, not only could he persuade a great company to hire him for top $$, but they'd be foolish not to! I said I thought that further college education could only serve to "dumb him down" to average college graduate material. Furthermore, whatever computer he used to make that presentation must be exactly the one he needs for boundless success. I sent him off with his old laptop and a $100 starbucks card.
If I can pick out the laptop for my kid (Score:2)
On the other hand I remember when my kid was in college and their granddad let them pick out a laptop. I still have that piece of crap. Toshiba, big giant touchpad screen which was why the kid wanted it. It was kind of a cool gimmick at the time. Could use it like a tablet. Which was absolutely ridiculous because it's like a 17 inch laptop. Absolute junk and it had half the
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lets say it would wipe the floor with windows.
haven't seen a mac in years, so
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I recently bought a laptop with windows 11 on it. A Dell. I was baffled to see it using 8 gigs! (WTF!!!) idling. The hardware was on the supported list for ubuntu, which I knew before buying it. The bios won't let you boot from USB (really...) so I had to use windows partition manager to create a partition to put the xubuntu iso, then I was able to instruct the bios to use that partition.
Once I got things going, Xubuntu idling used all of 1.1gb. It screams on the laptop where Windows was just tired. I spen
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Either your math isn't mathing, or your kid has been in college a long time. I'd say if they haven't graduated after 12+ years, maybe it's time to give serious consideration to a trade.
Convice your parents to sell their SUV (Score:1)
Or ask them why they give a shit about your future in case they use a SUV.
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or why they are having children at all?
Computer? (Score:4, Funny)
What's a computer?
Think Jerkly (Score:1)
Apple's been laying ad eggs lately. They had the Great Squishing Machine ad that was pulled, "erase grandma" fiasco, and now this.
Maybe bring back Think Different, it's road-tested.
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The Real Ick. (Score:2)
Some users described the ad as "cringe" and "gross."
Apple making an ad trying to sell Apple, isn’t gross.
Their prices on the other hand..
The real version (Score:2)
Some users described the ad as "cringe" and "gross (Score:2)
I guess 2 people on Twitter.
Nah (Score:2)
> Some users described the ad as "cringe" and "gross."
Real GenAlphas would have said they were "Skibidi" and "Ohio".
Ripping off Amiga (Score:3)
This looks like Apple is ripping off the old 1989 Amiga commercial. But I think the old Amiga commercial wasn't so "in your face".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]