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1. dovella

   
   Posted on: April 04, 2009 at 2:12PM  

   Awesome awesome!!!! i love new ADV :D

   Pls Brandon Remember Funclub Lauren ;)

   http://tinyurl.com/dk4dpj
2. newscientist2000

   
   Posted on: April 04, 2009 at 2:14PM  

   $1500, wow thats a lot of money.  

   The guy really does have "really big hands" so I guess you had to do the responsible thing and give him a higher budget for his needs.

   Nice dig at the Mac in this advert though, kinda an agressive advert.

   Works well.
3. iGAT

   
   Posted on: April 04, 2009 at 3:01PM  

   I saw my laptop on that ad that he was browsing through. :P
4. iGAT

   
   Posted on: April 04, 2009 at 3:02PM  

   Oh yeah I saw the Mac dig too!

   I wonder how much Microsoft paid him to say that, even though they did make a valid point.
5. cfischer83

   
   Posted on: April 04, 2009 at 3:43PM  

   That's a great commercial! Get ready for some Apple junkies to rip it apart... something like "for only $2,000 more he could have gotten a Macbook Pro with the same specs AND bluetooth!"... something to that effect...

   Can you give us a model number/configuration of the one he got?
6. arunkshrestha

   
   Posted on: April 04, 2009 at 5:39PM  

   Hi! Here is an idea for your next commercial.

   Go around looking for Gaming PCs and compare it to "non-PCs" wink wink.

   That would be an awesome advert for PCs and Windows.
7. newscientist2000

   
   Posted on: April 04, 2009 at 10:25PM  

   Hi cfischer83,

   Looks like Engadget has the answer to your question, I quote:

   "he walks out of Fry's with an HP HDX 16 that features a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB drive -- raw numbers that would cost you $2,499 from Apple, although you'd be getting a vastly better display. Fair?"

   Full article here:

   www.engadget.com/.../microsofts-second-laptop-hunters-commercial-giampaulo-buys-an

   Actually theres some more info on the net about this ad, some good like it was shot at the San Marcos Frys Electronics (which is a real nice store and totally better than the one in San Diego, although Frys is a great store in general, hope it expands to more places to fill the void of CompUSA and Circuit City.

   Some bad though like he should have got a higher res screen.  On average though I would say its a winner as it helps shed off the John Hodgman PC user stereotype, and replaces it with the "real" young guy with big hands "Giampaolo" or young lady who lit a fire "Lauren".

   Check out the specs or buy at Frys:

   shop2.frys.com/.../5806793

   Giampaolo you should have got a more expensive laptop dude, hey thats just me though.

   Im guessing you got a pretty sweet deal out of it though free laptop and internet fame!

   Perhaps the best thing about these ads though is I cant imagine they could be parodied by apple easily, they would only draw attention to the ads which would kinda defeat the purpose.  So I would say a definately a win for the Microsoft Marketing Department.
8. scronide

   
   Posted on: April 05, 2009 at 10:56PM  

   Now this ad barely makes any sense. Giampaolo's selection falls short of at least two out of three of his main requirements:

   - Portability? The beast of a machine he chose is one of the heavier laptops available, weighing in over 7lbs, with some of the chunkiest dimensions!

   - Battery life? Most reviews from real people that I've read for this laptop have said it manages less than 2 hours. That's pretty poor by modern standards. (Related note: the Microsoft Laptop Scout website doesn't offer battery life as a filter... or doesn't seem to mention it... at all. Seems like an glaring omission.)

   At least Lauren got the 17" she was after. At $1099 -- presumably post mail-in rebate -- is Giampaolo's choice "too cool" for her too? (Choice may be one of the messages the series promotes, but there's already a lack of coherency across the first two ads.)

   Still no mention of the one thing Microsoft provides for the computer: "Nice work. It's [Vista Home Premium]." Neither customer starts with the requirement for Windows, and that has to be worrying to anyone thinking long-term. They only end up with Windows boxes because it happens to be preloaded on the machine they chose.
9. 7flavor

   
   Posted on: April 06, 2009 at 12:05AM  

   Glad I got my customized uber high end Dell XPS 1530 for 1200 on Black Friday and saved approx $550!!.
10. dvd2video

    
    Posted on: April 06, 2009 at 10:34PM  

    Pretty cool web video. Made from official source of the cool app?: www.web-video-player.com

    Similar to the tutorial on google blog:

    funny-video-youtube.blogspot.com