Vintage PC vs. Mac Ad Pictorial

By Alex in Advertising, Pictures on Jul 13, 2007 at 5:40 pm

Before those "I’m a PC and I’m a Mac" ads by Apple, here’s this ad pictorial in the September 1996 issue of MacAddict: Link – via Crave, Thanks Aaron Larney!


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  1. MisterTrilby
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 6:30 pm

    Yuck, I wouldn’t want to be either of those chaps.

  2. Lester
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 6:35 pm

    This isn’t actually an ad.

  3. Nathan Hunt
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 6:37 pm

    To clarify, this document was not actually an ad, but rather part of an article published in MacAddict in 1996 about the differences between Mac users and PC users.

  4. Anthony
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 8:56 pm

    So basically they’re both douches, but the Mac user likes the smell of his own farts more?

  5. acer
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    as in the modern ads and the japanese ads, i prefer the pc guy. smart beats trendy any day of the week with me.

    but, given the iphone lines, apparently trendy works for a lot of people.

  6. WV.Hillbilly
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 11:11 pm

    Hey, it’s Jerry Seinfeld!

  7. Theresa
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 11:37 pm

    When did 1996 become vintage?

  8. Theresa
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 11:39 pm

    And I think the PC guy is the little boy in the lard ad, all grown up.

  9. Alex
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 11:53 pm

    Thanks for pointing out that it’s not an ad, Lester and Nathan Hunt!

    You’re right, Theresa – in computer and technology terms, 1996 is not vintage. It’s ancient!

  10. Jacques
    Jul 14th, 2007 at 10:04 am

    I agree, they both look like douchebags. Build your own PC from bits you find in the garbabge and throw a found copy of Fedora or Ubuntu or FreeBSD onto it. Oh yeah, get a girlfriend sometime too.


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