Mac vs. PC, the commercial wars

It was good while it lasted.

 

He gone.
<blockquote>Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to spin them about "phase two" of the ad campaign — a phase, due to be announced tomorrow <i>(NOTE: meaning today --- your friendly neighborhood 2muchcoffeeman)</i>, which will drop the aging comic altogether. Microsoft's version of the story: Redmond had always planned to drop Seinfeld. The awkward reality: The ads only reminded us how out of touch with consumers Microsoft is — and that Bill Gates's company has millions of dollars to waste on hiring a has-been funnyman to keep him company. Update: In a phone call, Waggener Edstrom flack Frank Shaw confirms that Microsoft is not going on with Seinfeld, and echoes his underlings' spin that the move was planned. There is the "potential to do other things" with Seinfeld, which Shaw says is still "possible." He adds: "People would have been happier if everyone loved the ads, but this was not unexpected."</blockquote>
http://valleywag.com/5051455/microsoft-to-announce-jerry-seinfeld-ads-cancelled-tomorrow

And didn't Jerry always have one Mac or another in his TV apartment? Hmmm ... maybe he should've stuck with that.

 

first season he had a mac and a cactus in the corner. both didn't make the second-season cut.

 

iMac didn't exist in 1989.

 

He said mac, not imac. I'm pretty sure it was a Mac Classic.

 

Ah. Misread.

Seinfeld had Macs on the set's desk through the whole run. Found a brief listing:

Mac Classic or SE/30
Powerbook Duo with Duodock
20th Anniversary Macintosh (final season, identical to the one Seinfeld had at home)

 

that is kinda funny that the only one i remember is the mac classic, which was a first-season only thing.