RSS iChat Tips Advertise

Mac Chick of The Month

Dell’s Latitude E4200 MacBook Air Parody

September 10, 2008 by Dr. Macenstein
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Hardware, design, video

Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.

Oh those incorrigible Dell boys and their video hijinks!

Here we see their latest effort, a comparison between the Dell Latitude E4200 and the MacBook Airentitled “More Substance, Less Air” and produced by Dell’s official corporate blog, DellVlog.

Now, I won’t argue that producing a smaller computer (although it looks to be 20 times thicker than the Air) with more RAM, an optical drive, and longer battery life than the MacBook Air isn’t something to crow about. (I’m actually one of the rare Apple Fanboys who thinks the Air falls short of achieving what it was designed to do). However, there is something even more unique about the Air among ultra-portables than that it can fit inside an envelope - it can run OS X. I don’t want a Ferrari that can only run on train tracks, and I don’t want a laptop that runs Windows, no matter how small it is. Maybe Dell should be comparing its stuff to other PC ultra portables, and not be reminding everyone that there’s a better OS out there.

Of course, no ultra-portable PC laptop manufacturer has been capable of creating as iconic an ad as the Air, so I guess you can’t parody something that no one has heard of (which is why no one will be pardoying the Dell Latitude E4200). Catchy name, by the way.

Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Matt for the link!

Every time you submit our site, an Angel gets its wings.

Tags:

Comments

5 Comments on Dell’s Latitude E4200 MacBook Air Parody

Alex on Wed, 10th Sep 2008 12:03 pm

EXACTLY!
that’s what I try to tell people.
no matter how powerful or thin or cheap or famous (or not) it is, It ain’t got Mac OS X and THAT’s what matters.

Also, they think it’s cool do say “Hey man, check it out, I got the new Dell Latitude E Fourty-two-hundred!”

Dave-O on Wed, 10th Sep 2008 12:13 pm

They conspicuously avoid shots that show how fat it is. Hard not to notice what they’re hiding when they parody a video that specifically shows how razor-thin the MBA is.

darrell on Wed, 10th Sep 2008 4:28 pm

so how many parody videos are on YouTube of the MacBook Air ad now? and out of all of them which ones does anyone remember?

the sad part of trying to show off a competing notebook to the MacBook Air with an Air parody ad is that it only winds up making people remember the MacBook Air ad. yeah we get it. you got 3 USB ports and a DVD burner. you win.

Tom Foolery on Wed, 10th Sep 2008 5:52 pm

beautifully said. period.

Pony on Wed, 10th Sep 2008 10:16 pm

Is this a professionally made ad? If so I’d sack the agency. Look at the screen bend when the guy opens it with one finger. If the thing is going to bend like that lift it from the centre or find another angle.

Tell me what you're thinking...
and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!