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MacBook Pro destroyed with Axe at 300 fps

Have you ever wondered how a fight between a MacBook Pro and Cousin “Itt” from the Addams Family would have gone down? Well, get prepared to start wondering about something else, because we have your answer! Above: Warning! Contains extreme scenes of Mac abuse! Fanboys strongly cautioned! I’m thinking that this MacBook Pro may have died from natural causes before... Read More

Dell’s Latitude E4200 MacBook Air Parody

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)... Read More

New “Get A Mac” flash ad appears on CNN.com

My kids – brainwashed Mac faithful that they are – recently got into the Get A Mac ads and now will spend a good half hour a day watching them on Apple’s website despite the fact that they don’t really understand what they are talking about. (They just like John Hodgman because he hosts the They Might Be Giants Venue Songs DVD which they love). I saw this... Read More

OK, am I being fanboy…?

….or does this Wriggley’s Slim Packs gum commercial I just saw on the VMA’s just 15 minutes ago… look more than a little like this iPod nano commercial? I don’t know, if Lugz could threaten Apple with legal action for ripping them off with their Eminem commercial, then I think Apple’s got a case against Wriggley’s. I mean, check out the... Read More

Leaked “alternate edit” of Microsoft Seinfeld Ad

Faithful Macenstein reader Roger came across this “alternate edit” of the Microsoft Seinfeld ad, and I must say, I think they should have gone with this one. Entitled “Windows, not Walls”, it admittedly borrows a bit from Apple’s “Here’s to the Crazy ones”ads (which also featured Seinfeld), but Microsoft isn’t exactly against... Read More

Microsoft’s first “Seinfeld ad” a bigger disaster than the Hindenburg

Wow. You can’t buy this kind of chemistry! Actually, i guess you can, which is likely the problem here. Suddenly I am not all that worried about the rumored $300 million Seinfeld/Bill Gates Microsoft ad campaign meant to counter Apple’s popular Get A Mac ads. “Shoe Circus” – the first Microsoft ad featuring Seinfeld (and hopefully the last). I don’t... Read More

Some people are just not meant to own an iPhone

Cambodia? WTF? Oh… she’s so cute, I can’t stay mad at her! Well, first of all, let me just say I don’t think you can use ANY cell phone with those nails, but I thought her delivery was funny and I was thoroughly charmed. Sort of like Margaret Cho, only funny. I suppose ultimately this is a pro-Apple video, done somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but on the odd chance... Read More

Giant Pink Lady gets out-smarted by Mac Dude

I had read this story over a year ago during the original iPhone launch – a rich “would-be” eBay tycon pulls up to the line of people who had been waiting outside an AT&T store for hours, flashes $100,000 in cash, and buys the first-in-line spot from a kid for $800 in hopes of buying out the entire store’s iPhone supply, only to be told there is... Read More

Video: Waterproof spray-on coating for your iPhone, laptop

Probably the number one threat to iPhones is the dreaded “accidental toilet drop”. While all cell phones fear it, the iPhone is particularly at risk because users are often asked to shake the hell out of their iPhones when playing these games. It’s a recipe for “accidental toilet drop”-disaster. Well, Cape Cod-based Northwest Maritime Institute has... Read More

Oh my God! Where the hell are Steve’s Pants!?

OK, I challenge you to watch this video and just try to tell me that at the 30 second point, life, as you knew it, has not been forever and irreparably changed. Yes, not many CEO’s would dare to get on stage in front of an large audience and talk about their company’s core values while wearing a black mock turtleneck and shorts, but somehow Steve manages to pull it... Read More