I know you've given your brain a workout over the past year with all of my tech quizzes and polls, but here are the top six tech quizzes of 2009 — catch up if you haven't taken them already!
 PC vs. Mac Women |
 Cell Phone Name or Britney Song? |
 Gossip Girl PC vs. Mac |
 Match the Celeb Super Quiz |
 Test Your Star Trek Knowledge |
 Match the Eclipse Cast to Their Tech |
There's a line in the new Jay-Z song "Venus Vs. Mars" that says "Hove's a BlackBerry Bold, shorty is a Sidekick . . ." which got me thinking about couples that differ when it comes to tech love. There's no geek law that says you have to rock the same devices as your partner, but I've noticed most of my friends and their significant others share a common tech alliance (maybe it has something to do with the good old carrier family plan). Do you and your sweetie use the same type of computer or phone?
Are Apple's long-clever Get a Mac ads no longer clever? They've tried to respond to Microsoft's Laptop Hunters ads via their Hodgman-and-Long two-man show, but the results just feel a little stale. The first attempt was kind of funny, but this one, starring Seinfeld's Patrick Warburton as a slimy PC salesman, just feels stale.
Watch the ad and let me know: has Apple lost its touch with these Mac vs. PC ads? Should it embark on a new concept, or is this ad the latest in a long line of witty commercials?
Apple is oh so cheeky. It's just debuted its rebuttal commercial to Microsoft's Laptop Hunter ad campaign. It's short, sweet, and straight to the point — PCs are malfunctioning headaches, while Macs are simple and user friendly. Can't wait to see what their next commercial will be.
Experts keep saying light, inexpensive netbooks are going to reshape the computer industry, but it turns out the weight and price may not be final factors when it comes to customer satisfaction with a machine. A recent study of consumer interactions with a bunch of companies proved happiness and overall satisfaction with Macs is higher than for several major Windows PC builders.
The study examined the usefulness, usability, and enjoyability of those experiences of five large PC manufacturers: Apple, Compaq, Dell, Gateway, and Hewlett-Packard (HP). Apple took a bite out of the pack, while Dell sagged at the bottom of the barrel. Which of the criterion do you think is most important?
Apple is already spreading some holiday cheer with its new Mac vs. PC holiday videos, which you can check out on its homepage. This one is called Tree Trimming and the second is called I Can Do Anything. Both are equally cute (gotta love PC's Christmas sweater) and are guaranteed to get you in the geeky holiday spirit.
The Mac vs. PC commercials may have slipped out of our collective social conscious recently because they aren't running as often as they were six months ago, but that doesn't mean they are no longer powerful, or funny. BuzzSugar tipped me off to the fact that FX's "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," show has turned the Mac vs. PC ads into funny parodies to promote the show's third season, which is set to premiere Sept. 13. In this ad, Charlie Day and Danny DeVito play "Mac" and "PC," with PC meaning "Perverted Clown." It's part geeky, part raunchy and I love it.
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