Last night and tonight I’ve been slowly but surely trying to get caught up on reading my blogroll in Google Reader. I subscribe to several difference Apple community blogs, and have noticed that Microsoft’s recent “laptop hunter” ad campaign seems to have really struck a nerve with Apple enthusiasts. I’m not going to bother linking to all of them (there really were several), but if you scroll through some of the recent entries here and here, you should see what I mean.

The common theme across most of those entries seems to be all of the “fallacies” in those commercials. You know, all of the stuff thats *not* being said in the message of the campaign…

What I find most interesting is how the people/organizations voicing those complaints didn’t seem to have any problem with all of the fallacies that were being thrown the opposite direction for the past coupla years in the ads in the “Get a mac” campaign. There was an awful lot of untruth going on there as well.

Frankly, as much as I LOVE my mac, its refreshing to *finally* see Microsoft waking up and fighting back. As consumers, I think we’ll all end up benefitting in the end (in price and quality), no matter which camp we live in.

UPDATE: OK, I guess I was further behind on my blog reading than I thought I was. The articles I’m referring to seem to be further back than I originally thought. For examples of what I mean, see here and here.