Apple’s new “Santa Claus†ad pays homage to the glory of Rankin/Bass
We’re usually able to reign in our fanboy tendencies enough to not go writing about every new Apple ad that comes out, but their latest one really deserves a special mention. Entitled “Santa Claus“, the new ad pays homage to the kick-ass Rankin/Bass stop motion holiday specials we all grew up on.
We wouldn’t be surprised if Jobs forced convinced Pixar to pump this one out, as it looks a little too slick to be claymation. Still, this commercial represents somewhat of a pinnacle in Apple’s “Get A Mac” ad campaign. It seems Apple now considers the Mac vs. PC duo iconic enough characters that they can be portrayed in a new medium and still be recognized.
[UPDATE: Faithful Macenstein reader L claims Laika Inc did this ad, not Pixar.]
It needs the Bumble.
PC’s rule
Macs suck on the internet, Apple is only good for Pods and Phones
Wow, Joe, your assessment is awesome. I mean Microsoft should totally hire you for their marketing. I mean the way you back up your statement with absolutely no evidence without any point to the topic at hand. The way you use the apostrophe completely incorrectly, genius.
Joe, why do you bother commenting on this site when you could start your own site. I’m sure you’d have a heavy readership! People love this kind of insight and it’s so hard to find on the net!
wow.. joe.. ever used a mac.. why don’t you stop being an ignorant shit and go read pc magazine or something ya normie.. even your name has pc written all over it… generic
… Macs have there pros and cons just like any platform but please explain to me how exactly “Macs suck on the internet”?
no. joe’s right.
He’s probably just saying that to get at your nerves. Myself being a mac user can’t stand when people make stupid ignorant comments like that. Then again he’s probably doing so for attention and or to bait some of the more aggressive mac users 🙂
Joe’s the one on the left.
After 15 years using Windows, and 2 glorious years using Macs, you have to be brain dead, or a Gates fanboy, to love any Windows OS. Give Macs a chance. Unix is the best.
lol funny ad. macs are stupidly over priced though… i certainly wont be getting one for christmas 😛
Uhh… compare CSS and web standards compatibility of IE 6/7 against Safari 2/3. Not even a close call. Seriously. You’ve apparently never done complex web authoring. Microsoft failz at teh internet.
Windows is decent for playing games, and it’s not horrid in a mega-corporate business environment. I’ll give it those. But for programming, web development, video editing, music, photography, or just doing stuff on a day to day basis, macs kill. Seriously. This isn’t OS 8.6 anymore (yea I’ll admit that wasn’t fun, and neither was 10.0) but Leopard is kicking ass and taking names.
Linux also has it’s place (imho servers), but for getting many multimedia things working it fails and is missing crucial software for people who are doing professional work. There is no linux analog to Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, Motion or Aperture.
Hiss! PC user! Let’s all use our snarky and superior attitudes to hide our insecurities!
PC & Mac advantages aside, there’s a reason why Apple fanboyism gets such a bad name. Your computer preferences have no bearing on how cool or normal you are.
Well, to make unsupported, immature comments like ‘Macs suck’ or ‘pcs suck’ is stupid. That doesn’t change the fact that they do suck however. Linux rules! Open source software is the way to go. Microsoft has pretty shoddy products, and Apple has done nothing but sell over-priced products that are simply not worth buying.
(Also, one thing PC users can do that Mac users can’t is shut the hell up).
Laika Inc did this ad, not Pixar.
Hey John, it works both ways. A PC user can’t bash Macs all day just because we have some fruit with ponytails running around. Mac users can’t control everyone–although Jobs is working on it. His new name? Overlord.
Using a Mac vs. a PC for internet – the only real difference I can think of is that the Mac has this feature called locations manager which makes it really nice if you have a portable computer that needs to be setup differently for different locations where you use it – like work, home, school, coffee shop, etc. Apple’s had this feature for many years – like since MacOS 8.5 or something, so you’d think Microsoft would steal it. But if you need to have a static IP at work and use DHCP at home, you are pretty much forced to manually change this on Windows whereas on the Mac, you can choose the location “Work” from the locations menu (under the Apple menu), and you’re good to go.
You don’t need it if you are just changing Wifi networks – its for when your network settings have to actually be configured differently in different places (or even if you are at work and have different subnets that you could be on, etc.)
Oh ho ho!
That was so funny it made me forget all of those PC commercials that said “Oh don’t buy a Mac! Please! Buy a PC, they’re better!” and then made fun of Mac computers. Oh wait.
I swear to god I hate all of you digg users down to the deepest core of my soul. All your hyped-up article titles and sensationalized summaries account for a whole lot of – absolutely nothing! Just because it uses omnidirectional lighting DOESNT MEAN ITS PIXAR! For god’s sake the people who write these articles must either be 8 year olds or 55 year olds. If it looks like it was made in the 50’s it MUST be made by Pixar because thats what they do right? Just like how every computer-animated movie ever made was made by pixar? I swear to god himself I hate all of you with a raw, seething passion and I pray for the day that digg finally becomes so bloated with crap that it completely falls off the radar and dies. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news. This isnt news.
You guys are jackasses. You claim that PC is the one who’s bashing Mac all along? And when you get called out on it, you’ll say “You’re twisting our words” when it’s clearly implied? The funny part is that PC is so popular already that they don’t need to advertise. I don’t see any commercials saying why you should buy a PC over Mac. Or rather, bashing a Mac (to do the same thing as your advertising campaign). That’s because anyone with half a brain already knows that PCs are superior. You point out PCs flaws, yet anyone who’s computer literate knows how easily fixed they are. However, anyone who’s computer literate will be baffled by Mac because their entire system is idiotic. Even their hardware setup is inefficient, ever been inside a Mac? How about a PC? Tell me which you like better.
You bash Vista but flaunt your ability to run it, how ironic.
That’s it! just to piss you off, I’m getting a MAC and installing windows 98. Ha take that!…. Just kidding
Bumbles bounce!
I dont know what the big deal about macs. I’ve tried them, they’re slow and unresponsive. A lot of the mac users at my college wish they’d gotten win based laptops instead the new macbooks. Seriously.
Wait nevermind, all of them do.
My buddy actually works for Laika Studios, they are ready to release their fist major motion picture “Coraline” based of the Neil Gamon book. It’s also done in the same stop motion animation. So it wouldn’t surprise me that this ad was somewhat influenced by their recent work on Coraline.
PC is so much a more likeable character than the Mac. He wins without trying it is sad.
uhh…I like Macs and PCs equally, but if you are making the claim that Safari is a better browser than IE7, I can’t support that. Style based layouts that display perfectly in IE7, Opera, and Firefox (on both platforms), completely fall apart in any version of Safari. I’m sorry, but Safari is a crap browser and any serious developer knows it. However, Safari (and almost any other browser on the planet) are way better than IE6.
Also with all due respect Mr. Fisher, CSS and HTML do not alone equal complex web authoring. Though upon viewing your website, you already know that (assuming you designed your page yourself).
im right.
jesus christ you guys are dumb. if the os of your choice is so wonderful why not shut the fuck and enjoy it? badmouthing other people’s ideas and choices only exposes self-doubt.
mac ad made in 3dsmax PC
yeah macs do blow not because the comps are bad(they are) but cause all the mac loyalists who cant talk about anything other than,,,MAC! Computers are not supposed to be a “social movement”…and steve jobs is an asshole.
Guess Santa is glue between. We all know Santa is a huge GNU/Linux fan 😛
(A merry GNU/Linux X-Mas to you all 😛 )
Now I want to see dolls, eh, I mean “Action Figures” made of the pair. I would totally love to have them sitting atop my Mac and PC at work in a kinda “Heat Miser” “Cold Miser” pose.
What I can’t stand about macs (besides the obvious), is that while the Unix core may be nice, they have to go ahead and screw it all up with their idiotic GUI, and they don’t continue the unix quality anywhere *but* the command line.
And I’m sorry, but if that’s the best part of a Mac, I’ll stick with linux; faster, cheaper, more tweakable, can be more stable, no business end telling you how you should compute, twice the eye candy, and half the wanker fanboys.
Hmmm… looks like we started off off-topic, and just never recovered…
-The Doc
uh oh… santa’s on macs side now… sorry pc… you’re screwed…
i love the hesitation that was put into the script after pcs line… very funny..
side note: i just made my first workgroup yesterday of my new imac and pc running windows xp…. it’s slick.. so they both work well together…
Merry Christmas, you trendy mac emo dorks, Linux > *
The ad is great, but I don’t think that the original Rankin/Bass productions were claymation. I believe they were wire models.
macs are for fags and trendy metrosexuals. pcs will always be the serious machines, not some silver toy in which everyone thinks they are all of the sudden film directors or photographers. LOL get real.
Fail.
Worthless shit
Apple is way overpriced. I prefer PC for the customization, although the Mac is pretty stylish.
i think it all boils down to your preferences. pc users love their pc for games and the easy availability of free apps (torrents). macs love their macs for media and other stuff. i’ve got both, and i like both.
If you wear black and drink Latte then you like Macs. Everyone else uses a PC. There is nothing a PC can’t do that a Mac can, but faster. Especially with multi-core processors.
I’m putting this in terms snot nosed little shits who can’t even afford Apple computers can very easily grasp. Sex terms.
First, who really gives a shit what platform anyone prefers. Really. This site is a Mac site, and has totally fucking awesome Mac babes on it. You’re off topic so I trump your off topic-ness with hot babes. END of Argument.
But if you need more of a thrashing:
For those who’ve ever surfed porn/ malicious sites on both platforms, the answer is quite clear in the ridiculous argument over which is “better” on the internet. Mommy and daddy won’t shit a brick when they see a ton of spyware, registry entries, etc from pRon sites on their Mac because they don’t exist.
http://innerslacker.com/images/argue091204.jpg
Maybe “Joe” is a virus developer, in which case he’s correct.
Cool commercial. Having it animated is a nice change.
Dave, please try to keep comments on topic. We’re apparently doing Mac and Windows bashing here, not discussing the article!
🙂
-The Doc
Apple’s PC vs Mac ads are silly and childish.
Macs are nothing but proprietary crap.
lol this happens every time a mac is mentioned on a non mac site. Who cares which is better? You all just need to relax. I think that most people would agree that the mac ads are clever and sometimes even funny. It doesn’t always need to turn into an argument. PC people, you can’t laugh at yourself? Mac people, just because you are happy with your computer platform, doesn’t mean everyone has to know. They are just computers after all.