HagarTheHorrible wrote:
> OK - I know this may not be the proper forum, but I have to ask.
>
> I just finished watching Live Free or Die Hard. What has me
> curious is that the computer used by the co-star - Justin Long (the
> Mac Guy in the Apple commercials) looked a lot like a Window's
> based PC and not a Mac.
>
> Can anybody definitively tell me what type of computer he used in
> this movie. If it was a PC the irony would leave me smiling for a
> week.
I am unsure why. As far as the commercial goes and the character who play
in it: the Mac guy knows nothing (admittedly) about computers and the PC guy
is an admitted Macintosh user.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Long
"Long is also known for his depiction of a Mac in Apple Computer's Get a Mac
campaign. The campaign features commercials in which Long as a Mac and John
Hodgman as a PC, are engaged in playful banter about "the strengths of the
Mac platform and weaknesses of the PC platform." Despite his various roles
as computer geeks, he admitted to CraveOnline, "I'm very, very computer
illiterate... I get the worst of both worlds; I look like a geeky hacker but
I don't know anything about computers"."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hodgman
"Hodgman appears in the Get a Mac advertising campaign for Apple Inc., which
started in May 2006. In the ads he plays an anthropomorphised PC, vaguely
resembling Bill Gates, alongside his Mac counterpart, played by actor Justin
Long. While he plays the role of a PC in the campaign, Hodgman is actually a
diehard Mac user: "I bought the very first Mac, or convinced my father to
buy it, in 1984.""
Both of them are playing roles that they have been paid to play.
Goofs and trivia of the movie:
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0337978/trivia
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0337978/goofs
Does it tell you the type of computer? Not that I see.
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