Vintage PC vs. Mac Ad Pictorial - Neatorama

Before those "I'm a PC and I'm a Mac" ads by Apple, here's this ad pictorial in the September 1996 issue of MacAddict: http://www.scootinger.net/2007/02/20/im-a-pc-and-im-a-mac-circa-1996/ - via Crave, Thanks Aaron Larney!

Yuck, I wouldn't want to be either of those chaps.

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This isn't actually an ad.

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To clarify, this document was not actually an ad, but rather part of an article published in MacAddict in 1996 about the differences between Mac users and PC users.

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So basically they're both douches, but the Mac user likes the smell of his own farts more?

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as in the modern ads and the japanese ads, i prefer the pc guy. smart beats trendy any day of the week with me.

but, given the iphone lines, apparently trendy works for a lot of people.

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Hey, it's Jerry Seinfeld!

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When did 1996 become vintage?

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And I think the PC guy is the little boy in the lard ad, all grown up.

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Thanks for pointing out that it's not an ad, Lester and Nathan Hunt!

You're right, Theresa - in computer and technology terms, 1996 is not vintage. It's ancient!

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I agree, they both look like douchebags. Build your own PC from bits you find in the garbabge and throw a found copy of Fedora or Ubuntu or FreeBSD onto it. Oh yeah, get a girlfriend sometime too.

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