Tuesday, March 31, 2009

fortune: Microsoft Reality Ad - More on "Lauren" - De Long not Conrad

“I’m just not cool enough to be a Mac person.”

All about Microsoft’s “Lauren”
Her hair is red, her eyes dark brown, her physique slim. She stands 5′2″ in her stocking feet and weighs 113 lbs. in her birthday suit.
Her name is Lauren De Long, and she set a million geek hearts aflutter with her spunky performance in the now famous “you find it, you keep it” PC ad, in which she chose an HP (HPQ) Pavillion running Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Vista Home Edition over any computer in the Apple (AAPL) store.

She’s the young, hip, Volkswagen-driving redhead who stars in the latest Microsoft’s (MSFT) TV campaign. Told that if she can find a 17-inch laptop for under $1,000 she can keep it, Lauren ends up — to the Mac aficionados’ dismay — with an HP (HPQ) running Windows Vista.
“I would have to double my budget, which isn’t feasible,” Lauren says as she drives away from an Apple Store, where 17-inch notebooks start at $2,799. Then she sighs and delivers the ad’s coup de grace: “I’m just not cool enough to be a Mac person.”

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lauren (De Long not Conrad) rocks!

Anonymous said...

Yeah, but the computer the producers chose for Lauren De Long, an actress, is actually an under-performing crap box. So, when the commercial is broken-down, it's more nonsense from Microsoft. Another example of how they just don't get it.

Anonymous said...

not sure what there is to "get". I just bought an HP 17" laptop with Intel chipset. I wanted a Mac, but the Mac that had the same exact specs, was over $1000 more expensive! I have an iPhone and I love Apple, but for that price difference I could buy a 42" flatscreen TV!

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