No problems now, Gunug. Saw a couple of them on the Emmy's last night too.
The Slashdotters do get their shirts in a knot - when they're not arguing about the ads themselves, they get all hot and bothered on the subject of Mac vs. PC. Sigh.
I think the ads are funny (the magnetic power cord one is probably the funniest).
The really funny thing is that John Hodgman, who plays the PC is actually a Mac-user in real life. He is also an author and humorist, who has appeared on the Jon Stewart show. Justin Long, the actor who plays the Mac says he didn't even own a computer before the ads (guess what he has now?)
What I find interesting about these ads is the debate they have created - some people hate them, others love them - but they get noticed and that's brilliant advertising, any way you slice it. Not only are they noticed, but people remember that it's a Mac they're talking about. I saw a post from an Apple store employee and he said that the ads have definitely increased their sales - they've had a lot of switchers come in, mentioning that the ads made them curious.
In the past 6 months or so, every time I pick up the Boston Globe and there is a picture of someone with a computer in the pic (and it isn't usually central to the story), it seems to be a Mac laptop. My husband said that waiting for a flight to Germany the other day, he looked around and of the four people using laptops he could see, three of them were Macs. Something's happening...
