Novell/Linux Parody on Apple's Mac vs PC Ads 324
xtaski writes "Wired's 'Cult of Mac' blog offers up video of Novell's spin on the Apple Mac vs. PC ads. The twist: a young lady portraying that winsome third party, Linux. There are two ads available for perusal, and the second is definitely the better of the two."
How about a link to the downloadable videos? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:How about a link to the downloadable videos? (Score:5, Informative)
Not as good as... (Score:5, Informative)
Here is another one (Score:4, Informative)
Indeed not (Score:5, Informative)
Re:You tried to parod a humorous commercial? (Score:2, Informative)
And, in the second video, she is fashionable and gets a new look quite often while the and the pc says he will be wearing the jacket for 5 or 6 years.
I think the commercials are both good and humorous.
Re:Not as good as... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:ATTN: SWITCHEURS! (Score:2, Informative)
Already been done (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Never pronounces SUSE (Score:3, Informative)
It's entirely clear how to pronounce it - just like the guy in the video "German Air Traffic Control" does.
http://www.novell.com/video/ [novell.com] (Sixth video down)
Re:How about a link to the downloadable videos? (Score:1, Informative)
8. Beryl/compiz. These don't work on OS X. (Yeah, I know, OS X has a nice interface, but it's static and boring compared to beryl.)
9. More intelligent sleep functions: it won't go to sleep if the network activity and/or cpu level is above a certain threshold, unlike OS X which monitors only keyboard and mouse to gauge whether the computer is busy. As a result, OS X can go to sleep during a large download, large compile, or large simulation. Linux waits until these are finished, and then goes to sleep.
Re:How about a link to the downloadable videos? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:How about a link to the downloadable videos? (Score:2, Informative)
>> Early on, Apple put a lot of research into their human interface guidelines.
So has Gnome. Sun spent a great deal of time user testing, and researching Gnome. This VASTLY improved Gnomes usability from 1.4 to 2.4'ish. Gnome has also done this testing on modern fast web connected computers. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/ut1_repor
however.. lets say you want a power users desktop.. well Linux just so happens to have the best thing there as well, KDE. Or maybe its something fast and light weight.. again in comes Linux with XFCE and Fluxbox.
OS X is a great system, but my biggest complaint with it is its performance vs Linux, All the UI's in Linux mentioned give better performance than Aqua. (or Aero and Luna for that matter.)