A couple of new Apple "Get a Mac" ads premiered tonight, and I can't can't claim to be an entirely dispassionate bystander this time around: They have Mac and PC discussing the fact that PC World's tests of a MacBook Pro running Windows Vista, using our WorldBench 5 benchmark, showed a Mac to be the fasted Vista notebook we'd ever seen.
Here's a link to one of the ads on Apple's site in QuickTime form; the other isn't there, and we understand that tonight may be the only time it airs on TV.
It's fun to see PCW pop up in an ad campaign that's a cultural touchstone of the moment, although I think my favorite PCW reference will always be the time we got mentioned on The Simpsons. And I do have to agree with Michael Rose of The Unofficial Apple Weblog that it's a tad jarring to see Apple promoting Macs as Vista machines when it's also running ads bashing Vista as being basically undesirable. You almost expect to see the Mac turn his nose up at running a Microsoft operating system at all...
