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I'm a Mac' and I'm unemployed
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By Network World Staff, Network World
Published reports say Apple has ditched its popular “Mac Guy” actor Justin Long for future “Get a Mac” commercials.
According to Radar more commercials featuring John Hodgman as the “I’m a PC” character are being produced. One of Long’s representatives told Radar: “Justin’s a movie star, not a commercial guy.” Long has appeared in Dodgeball and Herbie: Fully-Loaded. No word on what his next project will be although rumor has it he’ll be playing a hacker in a Bruce Willis flick called Live Free or Die Hard.
The “Get a Mac” guy follows in a long tradition of popular spokespeople cut off in their prime. Dell killed the Dell Dude in 2002 and Sprint spiked its deadpan trench coat-wearing guy in 2005 (after appearing in 155 commercials). If you were the “Can you hear me now” guy you better watch your back.
Macworld: News: 'I'm a Mac' and I'm unemployed
Other than the fact that Justin has no idea what a computer is (per Tonight Show interview with Jay Leno), I didn't have a problem with him. He did a great job in the commercials.
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I thought he was funny in those commercials, as well as in Dodgeball and Accepted. Was it Apple that canned him, or did he just up and quit? Sometimes these little things are lost in translation in the news.
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He was funny in the 'Mac and PC' commercials, but he was really only funny to Mac users and thus served no purpose in a set of commercials trying to convince PC users to purchase a Mac.
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Originally Posted by Wiskedjak 
He was funny in the 'Mac and PC' commercials, but he was really only funny to Mac users and thus served no purpose in a set of commercials trying to convince PC users to purchase a Mac.
My friends thought he was funny, and they don't have Macs. In fact, one of them worte a little one-pager for school (communications major) about how entertainging he thought those commercials were. I think he was making a point about making commercials about tech both easy to understand, and also actually about the technology.
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Originally Posted by Tuoder
I thought he was funny in those commercials, as well as in Dodgeball and Accepted. Was it Apple that canned him, or did he just up and quit? Sometimes these little things are lost in translation in the news.
I had read that Justin Long didn't want to be stuck as a commercial actor, but wanted to continue to be a "movie star."
Either way, props to the "I'm a Mac, and I'm unemployed" line.
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I am glad he's gone, and I kept this grudge within me since those ads started. On the other hand, I disliked the scripting and message of those commercials, as much as I disliked Justin Long. Too snooty.
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so how does apple continue the commercials?
i say let the pc guy tell you how "good" pcs are....
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He's an OK actor, but his voice is like a male Fran Drescher.
It was funny in Galaxy Quest cuz he played a nerd.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
It was funny in Galaxy Quest cuz he played a nerd.
He was also the über-dork in the short-lived NBC series "Ed".
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wasnt he also in the break up w/ jenniferA.. he was the guy working in the gallery w/ long hair
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I never liked him as the "cool Mac guy". He was funny in DodgeBall though getting pegged with the ball in the nuts!
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he was also in waiting which had its moments..very few but it did have them.
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I liked the one where he spoke to the 'Japanese Camera.' Just randomly silly. From my point of view.
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I'm hoping they get a hotter Mac Guy.
"I'm a Mac, with the new Core 2 Duo processor... I got a little sexier"
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Originally Posted by JoshuaZ
I liked the one where he spoke to the 'Japanese Camera.' Just randomly silly. From my point of view.
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Originally Posted by Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Even I hated him.
You blew your first MacNN post on that?
Anyways...I was indifferent to Justin Long. Hodgman, on the other hand, is superb.
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I thought Justin did a wonderful job. It just went against the grain when he anounced on the Tonight Show that he didn't use computers that much, and didn't know anything about them.
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UPDATE 'Mac guy' still making Apple ads
MacNN | 'Mac guy' still making Apple ads
again a story by the so called 'press' who never even asked the subject of the story his side of the issue. Lazy basards 
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Yeah, I read the same thing. He was scheduled for a shoot the next morning. Maybe it came from some internet magazine that didn't like him.
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