For those of us who see those recent Mac commercials and remember those noxious Pepsi ads of the 70s and 80s, these parody Mac ads might actually make you laugh.

The ads I remember usually ran on the Buffalo stations and usually directed scorn at the Coke users who weren't "with it" like the cool Pepsi drinkers. By the end of the commercial, the Pepsi drinkers would magnanimously share their Pepsi with the dorky Coke drinker.

Twenty years later, Coke's still here, Pepsi's still here, neither one better off than the other. Makes you question why you'd bother caring if Mac makes another commercial or not.

Unfortunately, the market the Mac ads are pointed at aren't old enough to remember how useless the Pepsi version of this type of advertisement was. Let's face it, just like Coke or Pepsi, you're a Mac user or a PC user and snide little commercial putting you down for your first choice probably isn't going to sway you-- unless you were that insecure about what strangers think of you!

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Tags: apple, fanboys, bad press, television, microsoft