Okay, this has to be the most amusing switch parody I've ever seen. I laughed my ass off.

Thanks to Derek for the link. I'm sure it's elsewhere and I just missed it.

Posted by jzawodn at March 04, 2003 07:49 PM

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# Kevin Roth said:

Very Nice! Still being a Mac user myself (though more and more infrequently) I can identify with this. Particularly since I'm stuck at OS 8.6 (my iMac's CD drive is broken and I'm too cheap to pay $200 for a new one)...

on March 6, 2003 04:37 AM
# Dan Isaacs said:

I've had that up in /temp for a while now. I meant to tell you guys about it. Wonderfully done.

on March 6, 2003 06:10 AM
# skylar said:

hmmm.... i have to disagree. in the vote for best switch ad, the anakin parody takes my vote. very clever and efficient in delivery - oh yeah, and it's hillarious.

http://www.pixelred.com/switch.htm

check it out if you haven't seen it.

on March 24, 2003 02:32 PM
# ScorchBot said:

It took forever to download only to find out that Ive already seen it! yes its hilarious but here is a WMV format that is way way quicker.

http://www.ancientspear.com/mac.wmv

on July 16, 2003 11:48 PM
# gguru1 said:

hell, I have a new iBook mac and this stuff is funny. most of the problems there talking about I havent had since 1995 CrapMac 9000 though, its better than those crappy anti-mac hacks they have out there, this is real comedy. Oh, and BTW, this works fine on Quick Time, WIndows Media kept messing up on me

on August 12, 2003 08:45 PM
# shopping cart software said:

That is a hilarrious clip...I wonder who went thru the trouble of putting together this spoof.

I am surprised that old BG himself wasn't in there acting. Can I tell you I was rolling on the floor....ROLLING MAN ROLLING

on August 20, 2003 03:50 PM
# Scarab said:

I don't get it...what OS is this guy using? I don't recognize any of his problems even remotely, i'm using OS X...

on August 26, 2003 02:01 PM
# mickey said:

Having used both OS9 and OSX I see all these problems...from the update manager to renaming a file without even knowing it because i've clicked it and touched another key...ooh and the dock...such a poor attempt at a start menu/taskbar.

WMV version is much better in terms of size...don't work on urs probably because u have a mac eh :) Play it on a PC WMP9. And most of those problems are OSX ones so they are new and happen every day :( I do like the redvsblue one though

http://webdev.o1.com/rvb/movies/switch/RvB_switch.mov

on September 10, 2003 04:09 AM
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on September 19, 2003 07:02 PM
# Oblivious said:

This one is hilarious!
I almost peed my pants.

on October 2, 2005 03:33 AM
# Nathan said:

awesome....i work with macs at college.......pain the the arse

on November 22, 2005 08:20 AM
# Dave said:

Every single thing he said is true.....

on February 12, 2006 10:03 AM
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