By some fluke in TV programming, earlier today one of the new Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld played right before a Mac ad.

The Microsoft ad was a waste of time and money akin to that ad E-Trade took out during the SuperBowl years back.  The only difference was that E-Trade’s useless commercial was 1) deliberate & 2) clever due entirely to it being played during the Super Bowl.  Jerry babbling about stuff at random used to be funny, now it’s just dumb, and what he said was so awkward that somewhere a dude on ’shrooms was watching and said to themself “Um…WTF was that supposed to mean?”.

The Mac ad was annoying, but they all are.  This particular one was compound Stupid, in that it also included a question-begging statement.  The Mac guy said that switching to Mac was easy because if you bought one a Mac “Genius” would simply transfer your files from your old computer.  Since not everything works on OSX, invariably many people would have files that can’t be transferred — that is, unless they’ll also stick your Windows installation on a partition via BootCamp.  If that’s the case, then depending on how much incompatible software you have, switching could’ve been a dumb idea in the first place: why bother getting a Mac if you’re going to run Windows on it most of the time anyway?