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"Hello, I’m a Mac" ad campaign to end?

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On April 9, 2010, 9:42 AM

After spawning 66 ads in a four year period, Gizmodo reports that Apple might be ending its very successful “Get a Mac” ad campaign soon. Despite being lambasted by PC enthusiasts, the often times quirky and sometimes unscrupulous series of ads generated plenty of buzz for Apple, creating a meme-like interest in the form of parodies, memorabilia and more.

While still little more than a rumor, the claim is substantiated by actor Justin Long (the Mac) who quotes his PC counterpart (John Hodgman) as saying Apple is “going to move on.” Justin continues, expressing a heavy heart from the possibility of not working with his antithetical colleague any longer.

If you are feeling nostalgic, Apple maintains an extensive archive of its “Get a Mac” ads here.

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  1. Technically it doesn't - while the OS has options for a right click and lets you perform one, it's actually just emulating a right click. Essentially you're holding down the option key and clicking the left button when you right click on a Mac.

    Now for all intents and purposes that translates, most of the time, to "You can right click on a Mac", but since it's being emulated, what you can't do is Left Click and Right Click at the same time. This can present issues with certain software (usually games).

    But the crappy support for games on OSX means that issue rarely ever crops up, zing!

  2. actually mac does use PC :p i forget exactly what is is/does, but ill ask me bud leer and tell ya

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