{"id":231,"date":"2009-04-06T13:57:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T21:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2011-05-14T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T18:22:58","slug":"pc-or-mac-the-timeless-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/pc-or-mac-the-timeless-question\/","title":{"rendered":"PC or Mac?  The Timeless Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The age-old battle between the computer software giant <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/blog\/outgoing\/www.microsfot.com');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.microsfot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> and the reborn innovator <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/blog\/outgoing\/www.apple.com');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a> has been bubbling for years now, and in the past few years it has spread to <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/blog\/outgoing\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/02\/10\/microsoft.mobile.phones\/index.html');\" title=\"Microsoft Smartphone vs. Iphone\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/02\/10\/microsoft.mobile.phones\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">more than just personal computers<\/a>.\u00a0 Each side has their arguments about what makes them better than the other, and chances are that this war will not be decided anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, Microsoft recently launched a new <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/blog\/outgoing\/technabob.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/29\/microsoft-laptop-hunters-ad\/');\" title=\"Laptop Hunters\"  href=\"http:\/\/technabob.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/29\/microsoft-laptop-hunters-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\">ad campaign<\/a> that hits one of the most crucial differences between the two competitors.\u00a0 Instead of aesthetics, customer support, or computing power, Microsoft is targeting an aspect that we can all relate to: <strong>price<\/strong>.\u00a0 The ad campaign, titled &#8220;Laptop Hunters,&#8221; follows students who are on a tight budget and need a computer that fits their specific needs.\u00a0 So far there are <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/blog\/outgoing\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/watchtheads\/');\" title=\"Microsoft Laptop Hunters Commercials\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/watchtheads\/\" target=\"_blank\">two Laptop Hunter commercials that have aired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though this new ad campaign is not likely to change a whole lot in the back-and-forth battle, in my opinion, Microsoft has finally hit the right chord with their commercial assault on Apple.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your BudgeX Bargain:<\/strong> <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/blog\/outgoing\/www.charmin.com\/en_us\/pages\/extender_request.shtml');\" title=\"Charmin Bathroom Tissue Extender\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.charmin.com\/en_us\/pages\/extender_request.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">A Free Charmin Bathroom Tissue Extender<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin: 12px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-8699601415085750\";\r\n\/* Blog Ad 468x60 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7288488553\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The age-old battle between the computer software giant Microsoft and the reborn innovator Apple has been bubbling for years now, and in the past few years it has spread to more than just personal computers.\u00a0 Each side has their arguments about what makes them better than the other, and chances are that this war will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[39,21,19,20,37],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negotiating","category-saving","tag-budgeting","tag-comparison-shopping","tag-competition","tag-deals","tag-frugality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budgex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}