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Why Does This Apple iBook Have a Microsoft BSOD? [Inconceivable]
i.gizmodo.com - 2/21/2009
Why Does This Apple iBook Have a Microsoft BSOD? [Inconceivable]
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So there's this commercial on TV right now for some computer maintenance service with technologically-inept people frustrated over their crappy, virus-laden, machines. At one point an iBook even flashes a BSOD...wait, what? Oh, the joys of low budget commercials and oblivious ad men! If El ...

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Strange Commercial Shows iBook with BSOD
Tech Blog — ... Infomercials are nothing new, but this is the first one we've seen with an iBook BSOD. Fortunately, "it's not the end of the world to not know that BSODs only happen on machines that can run Windows." Video after the break. So there's this commercial on TV right now for some computer maintenance service with technologically-inept people frustrated over their crappy, virus-laden, machines. [via Gizmodo]

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