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As far as the Playstation joysticks go...
roflpwnt.
And besides thats not really the point, its a screwup, I mean do you want to tell me that the marketing department was like "alright guys lets do a photoshoot and use a laptop similar to the mac book pro and don't forget the Xbox 360 Playstation look-alike joysticks!!"
If not, I have seen laptops with that kind of layout and most PC gaming controllers have a PlayStation controller look.
2ndly I don't see any mention of it being a 360 ad, it says pc. And my pc controllers look like a ps2 controller. I'll take pictures of both if you like.
As for the gamepads, they could be PC peripherals. I have a dual stick controller that looks just like that, I think it's a Logitech dual pad or something like that.
I'm guessing these were stock photos licensed by Microsoft, they certainly look like stock fodder.
WOO MARKETING! KEY DEMOGRAPHICS. GOING V I R A L. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Whenever you see APPLE OR PS2 THINK OF US KIDS! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!1!H!!
In fact, they're probably the sexiest thing to run Windows on!
It's probably some subliminal advertising to say, "Hey, if you're going to install Windows on your Mac, it better be Vista!"
lol
BTW, I doubt they did a photoshoot for any of it. It's stock photography, they just bought the pictures.
thanks from Tony
Nevertheless, Mac does run Vista.
Microsoft doesnt make computers or individual internal components for computers, and thus, it wouldent matter if they had a Mac in their ad.
macs run vista too if youre not an idiot.
MACBOOK PRO
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/03/05/microsoft-the-wo...
I'm sure they're just stock photos of people having fun with computers that MS picked up..
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Also, I've seen those playstation pads-like ( complete, possibly legal, rip-off the original ps pads) for PC.
But yeah, it's probably a screw up :-)
A good possibility is that Microsoft didn't want to pay for photos, so they got some already made ones and slapped them on. Everybody knows that Apple computers are better anyway...
But yea, the PS gamepads should be XBox controllers
The marketing department picked photos that looked good, and implied what they wanted the reader to infer. They didn't pay any attention to the computer equipment in the photos, only the people.
Inspiron E1505
Also for the Playstation controllers, maybe they're just trying to show that it can handle other platforms? It could also be look more open to other competitors and not just everything must be Microsoft. Makes them look more friendly. How many people are going to point out that, "Hey those look like Playstation controllers, that's not a Microsoft product," in comparison to, "Hey, those look like Playstation controllers, I wonder if I can play Playstation games on the new Windows OS!"?
and the Second Picture does have a Playstation Controller. If you zoom into both pictures, you can see the keyboard for the laptop and you can also see the buttons on the remote as well.
So much for microsoft. =(
So if anyone should be embarrassed it should be the PC manufacturers that can make photogenic laptops.
i agree with the ps2 controllers though, lol.
Microsoft doesn't make hardware so why would they care what hardware it's run on!
Stupid about the PS controllers however...
2. They are called gamepads, not joysticks. :)
http://tinyurl.com/5chmzy
As for the Playstation controllers... someone's ass is gonna get fired
And the last one is defintily ps3 cuz it kicks xbox's arse.
Here is why....
These people appear to have intelligence.
In response to the person above.....
The keyboard has the same shape?
Oh what smashing proof of evidence. It has a QWERTY keyboard just like a Mac!!! You're serious? I would have thought the keyboard would be similar to a Gameboy.
Couple that with the PS controllers and that just means Microsoft <3's Sony
http://www.tendancehightech.com/blog/images/com...
Why they went with that angle in the advert, I don't know.
On second thought. yeah, it's a screwup.
I understand that Vista runs real well on a MBP. So what's all the hubbub about?
The issue here is marketing. People that do promotional photography want everything to be right. Think of the difference between the picture of the big mac in McDonalds, and that thing you get in a cardboard box. Very different.
Now, I am not a fan of Apple, or their bastardization of the FreeBSD OS, but their cases make anyone at Starbucks look very sophisticated.
I am most certain that is a Mac Book Pro. If it isn't, it is some other mac I don't know about (Hey, it could happen).
U guys are fixated on the keys and their color. 2 easy to distinguish ways 2 tell its not a crapbook pro (really the only non-blurry parts of laptop pic):
* compare top right corner of laptop casing (obv 2 parts meeting up) vs a crapbook's construction (goog imgs)
* focus on bottom row of keys and area beneath then to the "flat hand area" where glidepoint/mouse is positioned - very much unlike crapbook
While i had a hunch it may be a vaio - that hunch is incorrect after comparing those 2 areas as well.
What can I say, its a brave new world and we're all having trouble adjusting.
http://www.thegeekbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
I disagree, and think the seams are different, and the shadow of the keyboards don't match up, but just thought I would throw it out there as another opinion.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v82/darkinuya...
Second, there are adapters that connect pretty much any existing controller into USB ports. So using a PS2 controller with your computer is possible.
But it sure does look Mac-y...
In this case, its obvious that the graphic designer/marketer who chose these stock images is an idiot and didn't stop and think for a second about what technologies were being represented. That is most definitely a Mac in the first photo.
I think they just have a hard time finding genuinely happy, photogenic families of Windows users to use for their advertising or something.
So yes, those are probably a Mac and PS controllers in the brochures. It's still retarded of them though.
The joysticks though. That's funny.
and, to be fair, you can run [a legal, money in microsoft's pocket verision of] vista on a macbook just fine.
And there's plenty of Playstation joystick-like copies for the PC.
I've also worked on film sets and photo shoots and i can tell you the people that put those things together honestly don't care. One of the hands was probably told to bring a laptop and it turned out to be a mac and they shot anyway. Same with the controllers.
These are probably just stock images and thus have absolutely no affiliation to anything (notice all the apple/ps3 logo markings are gone)
Known in this case as: marketing by non-techies.
as for playstation joysticks .....i aint so sure
dead and defunct, which is why she didnt move around much
As for the content of the story, Microsoft is generally best in their marketing department. However, as evidenced by this story, that's not saying much.
Second add is about 2 niggers so it does not count.
As to the Playstation controllers... yeah, wtf?
As commented before, the joystics could just as well be pc pads.
What we see here is just good markteting.
(Yeah, I use Vista, I'm so cool like the trendy Apple Guys und feel so young and energetic like the Playstation crowd.)
With a shody marketing job like this, there's no wonder Microsoft's in the crapper.
As to the PS controllers, meh, knock-offs or mods, this argument is old mac fanboys.
Fact: The same amount.
btw, you will never see a mac os ad in an ordinary laptop, because the os cant support it.
+1 for microsoft
pd. you can use dual shock in windows with the appropriate drivers
Same with the game controllers. If you're going to put products in your advertisement materials, make them your products. That would be like seeing a billboard for Frosted Flakes with an Orange box. Is it Wheaties? Is it Honey Nut Cheerios? Who cares, it clearly isn't Frosted Flakes.
Still funny, though the Macbook Pro isn't so cut and dry.
Playstation controllers are kind of iconic for gaming, so yeah.
Nice find.
Publicity agencies just take a picture from a database that fits the add. Often these pictures contain Mac's.
2. Don't forget, Windows still sucks.
http://www.millionenrente.com/gewinnspiel/game/...
There may be look alikes. but they cant look exactly the same.
As for the laptop. Can anyone point me to the company that makes brushed aluminium laptops with such recessed keyboards that might be mistaken for a mac?
Didnt think so.
Also notice the lack of Vista Compatable, AMD/Intel Inside logos that are usually found on the left hand side bottom of the laptop under the keyboard. Funny that.
http://www.millionenrente.com/gewinnspiel/game/...
I can't believe I'm sounding like a Microsoft/HP apologist. They obviously just used stock photography and were too lazy to make sure it was accurate or appropriate.
Advertising agencies and marketing department source photos from catalogues of stock photographs instead of hiring someone to take new photos. In this case they gathered a couple of generic photos of people using electronic products, laptops/games.
and about the controllers, i have two like that, usb connection, and winning eleven all day!!
Also, there are PC gamepads that are direct clones of every console on the market today.
Finally, these are usually "stock computer and gaming" images that marketing departments throw together, not always with the end product presented to them first. It is more likely that whatever firm Microsoft contracted just pulled a few images out of their stockpile and were too technically illiterate to realize a problem.
As for the controllers they could be Playstation like PC controllers.
Although, this is probably just a case of using stock photos.
There are no logos visible so where's the screwup? Yes PCs can have controllers like that, I used to have a similar controller years ago.
Stock Photography.
soooo then whats the deal? Microsoft sells software not hardware.
Microsoft and Sony aren't mutually exclusive either, cough vaio cough.
What They Did
The guy forgets that it exists Xbox 360 and design laptops xD
Though it could be running Linux. They'd probably be smiling just as much.
And they could even be running Vista.. there are people silly enough to ruin a perfectly good Mac with Vista.
Either way, a major goof, at least in the case of the first photo
Maybe they are playing solitare...
Also, I have worked with many silver Gateway, Dell, and HP laptops that this could be any one of. If these pictures are legitimate, do you really think Microsoft is dumb enough to use a Mac in their ads? I think not. Rumors like this have been going around for ages with fake pics showing Macs in Microsoft presentations, etc.
Also, to agree with Anon, there are many PC joysticks that look identical to the PS controller. Check out logitech's:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/267/padtexto...
And It might be a mac, might not be, but at the end of the day you're the retard that wasted time pretending its funny. Good jorb.
last time I heard, Microsoft dosen't manufacture computers, just operating systems and software.
Vista runs on a MBP just fine.
maybe i'm missing something.
PS3 is more popular then x-box 360.
Even they can admit these things!
Fire your marketing division.
J: Macs are not virus free. This is a common misconception that is propagated by those who "work on macs 8 hours a day". i actually just spent three hours removing a virus from a mac last week, not to mention their susceptibility to dns hijacking which occurs constantly on our network.
while macs are less likely to get viruses, to propagate this belief that they are "virus-free" is misleading not only to owners, but to technicians who don't find these things out for themselves until they have a virus staring them in the face and have no idea of how to remove it because "macs don't get virii".
Macs have their places just as PCs, but please don't spread this "no virus" propaganda. It's just a ridiculous supposition to any educated technician. Users love their Mac because they don't have to worry about as much machine-management as windows users, who in turn don't have to worry about a much machine-management as linux-distro users.
This is all user preference, some like the hands-off approach, some like to feel they have more control, some like the middle-ground. All OSes have their places, depending on the user's knowledge and needs. Quit being a fan-boy.
well, so am i but you're saying that you work for Apple. How many ppl on the internet have said that? especially on youtube!
I will never believe that some random guy on the internet who says that he works for apple. ok maybe some of the ppl who say it actually do, but most are apple fanboys and i am 100% sure that you are an apple fanboy who lies about working for apple…
B: "But sir/miss!"
A: "No, I like THIS one and that's final!"
All I can say is, someone just got fired.
Get a life you loser.
Nobody believes Vista's power anymore. Apple's out there to buy Microsoft's shares and take over the world.
Forget Windows altogether and just buy yourself a MAC.
and an example of the DNS hijacking: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan_osx_dnsc... while not technically a "virus" per se, it is a type of malware (trojan), which is commonly referred to as a virus by laymen.
Also, this exploit: http://www.f-secure.com/vulnerabilities/SA30776 Which could be used to do all kinds of nasty things. also, not a virus, but if a user was affected by something such as this they could easily think they have a virus.
Plus, there was the Mac.Simpsons virus back in '01, and Esperanto in '97... and the list goes on. While they are rare, they do exist. I believe you have been mislead by this "mac=no virus" b.s. as well. do some research before making false claims. This isn't big news. Anyone that has actually been "in the industry" knows this. There won't be any extra diggs, this isn't big news except maybe to fanboys, which will just cover their ears(eyes?) and run away screaming about their happy place anyways.
Get a life man..
that's sick..
you can see a hires version if you follow the "build your own pc" link on the very bottom
another macbook in a windows ad - joys of stock photos...