Jerry Seinfeld Dumps Microsoft, Goes Back To Mac (VIDEO)

Remember those Microsoft ads starring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates as buds? Trying on shoes, eating churros?

Well, it seems Jerry Seinfeld's chummy Microsoft days are over (despite the $10 million he was reportedly paid for the Microsoft ad spot). TUAW broke the news that Seinfeld had been spotted in a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode fraternizing with a MacBook pro. (see the picture from TUAW below)

CNET writes,

So to now discover that Seinfeld has appeared on HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" with a MacBook Pro craftily centered on his desk is to experience something akin to a kitchen knife being sharpened upon one's spine by a recently fired busboy.

Check out Seinfeld's Microsoft ad in the video below.

What do you think--forgivable or just plain wrong?

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[Goliadkin]

Jerry Seinfeld was funny once, but he has become an utter bore, IMHO. I really don't believe anyone gives much of a hoot about his latest antics, except maybe a few Seinfeld fanboys and mass debaters. So if happens to be seen in proximity to a Macintosh computer, please forgive me, but I am more interested in the computer than I am in him!

[Eris23]

I never thought Jerry Seinfeld was all that funny. I loved the TV show. But, the worst part of it were the stand up clips. That being said, I've really enjoyed the gag with him and the old cast in Curb Your Enthusiasm. Larry David makes him funny.

[AngusC]

Anyone who honestly think Seinfeld and his crew have an ounce of integrity in them is deluding themselves.
I have no respect for Larry David anymore after his little stunt and Seinfeld and his wife are dishonest and have no integrity.

[xstevejx]

Oh, jeeze! Not that cookbook BS again!!!

[veritas88]

as a person who used a Dell laptop for 4 years and HP and Compaq desktops for years before, I can tell you that the mac I own and use now is a million times better. it's just better, smoother, more efficient. i love my mac!

[wft21]

Who cares? Surprised MS paid him anything. He's been phoning it in since 1997. Best things about Seinfeld were everyone but Seinfeld and his parents. People watched more for Kramer or Newman than him.

[BadFlounder]

lol Clearly you know next to nothing about "Seinfeld" if you think that's true. Seriously

[AngusC]

Absolutely correct.
He was the weakest character of the whole cast.
If the show was not in his name, they would have replaced him.
George, Kramer and Elaine were clearly superior.

[RButler]

You guys just don't get it. The star of a sitcom isn't supposed to be the wild and crazy one. He's supposed be the one we identify with surrounded by the Kramers, Newmans, Costanzas, Ted Baxters, Lou Grants, Sue Ann Nivens, and so on. That's why Seinfeld's castmates have had such a hard time with their own sitcoms. An exception might be Desi Arnaz playing the 'normal' one to Lucy's nonsense.

Re: Seinfeld's parents. I loved it when his mother told Jerry 'you made out during Shindler's LLLIST!' while shaking her head in disbelief. The actress who played his mom was James Dean's grilfriend.

[xstevejx]

"Who couldn't LIKE you?" ;-)

[Querent]

Is it wrong? No, it's only natural. They can pay me to work on a Windows box, too. In fact, they do. But when I have a choice, there's no way I use anything other than my MacBook. Seinfeld may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he's no fool, either.

[BadFlounder]

A-men to that. I'm an Exchange Admin by trade and thus work with Windows machines for a living but my home machine is a Mac and I don't plan to ever go back.

Windows 7 is very nice....but I still prefer OS X.

[special muppet]

Forget Microsoft, Forget Apple. The future is Ubuntu... and it's absolutely free.

[Moarku]

They give you a free computer? Bitchin'.

[xstevejx]

Enough w/ the Linux being mainstream BS! Yes, it's a great distro, but hardly for everyone. Maybe in another 5-10 years or so!

And Windows is free...if you know what you're doing! ;-)

[Raul Garcia]

My Windows XP Pro system running Avid MC 3.5 has proven time and time again to be more stable than the latest Mac's G4's running FCP Pro.

I was very surprised to discover how prone Macs are to system freezes, however the urban legend continues.

Just imagine if they were as popular and had to support the vast array of 3rd party apps and hardware configurations as Windows PC's do.

[Querent]

The latest G4's are something like 5 years old now. After the G4's came the G5's. After the G5's came the Intel-based Apples.

By the way, I can run Windows on my MacBook, and I don't have to wait for it to boot. It runs better than Windows runs when it's the primary OS, especially Visual Studio, and I can run any Windows program you can run. If I get a virus, worm, or Trojan off the web while running Windows, I just roll the virtual machine back a snapshot or two, and problem gone. None of it can affect OSX, so I don't have to do anything about that.

I had a system freeze once. Once in two and a half years. I did a cold boot. All my open windows were restored to me just they way they were before the freeze. There were about eight of them. I went on with what I was doing and had no further problems.

So you like Windows? Think it's great? Good for you. I don't touch it unless I can't avoid it. The MacBook lets me do what I want, when I want, and doesn't constantly interrupt and pester me to do things some geek in Redmond thinks I should do instead. Good for me.

[Raul Garcia]

How about a 2 year old Macbook Pro, that also had to have it's dual layer DVD replaced.

Is that new enough for you buddy?

The urban legends continue.

[BadFlounder]

Huh...ok then. My macbook has frozen......never, in over a year of ownership. Windows XP is good and Windows 7 is even better. Hey, they aren't bad...they just aren't as good as OS X. It's ok...no need to get defensive about it. You and 90% of the rest of the world still use windows. Good for you guys.

[Raul Garcia]

The urban legend continues, just imagine how your Mac would perform if had to support the zillions of hardware and software configurations as the Windows PC's do.

The urban legend continues.

[Eris23]

Jump on youtube. No shortage of videos of people with frozen Macs asking for help.

[solid]

"Latest" G4? G4's are absolutely ancient. Macs have long since moved on to dual and quad core Intel processors.

You are more than a little behind the times. Oh, and between the 6 macs in my household, I can count the number of freezes (or kernel panics if you will) on one hand over the last 4 years. It's not an urban legend at all.

[Raul Garcia]

This was a cop out reply in support of a urban legend.

[xstevejx]

I'm mostly a 'Wintel' person, but I use my old G4 as a server and I only have to reboot it once every 3-6 months (usually because of system updates), whereas I don't trust my Windows machines to run well more than 2-3 weeks w/o a reboot.

[sekigahara]

The problem with macs is they do tend to give off almost toxic levels of smUg.

[SlurmsMcKenzie]

Boy are those apple people branded ! and you are right on thesmug part.

[roger37]

It ain't smugness if it's deserved.

[Strza]

It's not deserved.

It's simply having a 'sexy' machine. More money must equal better. They perform the same function, and at the same level of reliability. There is zero advantage from one to the other at this point. I have 6 friends that use macs, and all of them have had problems this year. Two of them had huge data loss take place, and 4 of them are dual booting windows 7 as a secondary OS now. Without an OS difference, we are just looking at hardware, and the new Macs are just well made intel machines running a different OS. It seems more and more as if people are paying for a case logo.

If you have unlimited funds, go for the 'sexy'. If you are trying to get a good deal on a piece of technology that is there to serve a function beyond broadcasting brand affiliation maybe looking a little closer would be a good idea.

[DLocke]

Exhibit A.

[sekigahara]

My flat-head screwdriver is sooo much better than that troublesome phillips-head screwdriver. It's great for turning a lot of flat-head screws, less likely to strip out the screw, it's not as pointy, plus it can fit and turn a lot of phillips screws in a pinch.

It's still turning screws and it's the same silly mentality that automakers use - that the car defines the driver. Not me, it doesn't.

[ProComputer]

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[queensplate]

they all wind up in a junk pile

[Goliadkin]

Exactly. The Earth.

[Karl Jonas]

does anybody believe that celebrities who get multimillion dollar endorsement deals actually prefer those products? if so, i've got a bridge in brooklyn i'll sell you...

[austin4]

And this is News, How?

[Eris23]

Exactly.

[glamajamma]

Who cares what Seinfeld uses? Do you buy a computer to be like a comedian? that would be rather sad.

On the same note who cares about Apple. Windows 7 has as much marketshare as MacOSX and it has been out for what, 2 weeks?

Stopping talking about Apple they are not important.

[jwredd]

Mine's pretty important.

[Karl Jonas]

mine too.

[SRPower]

Mine as well...

[rbryanh]

Don't follow the stock market much, do you?

[glamajamma]

Not really but I know MS is worth boat loads more than Apple. I would guess Linux probably has a larger combined worth as well.

[BigPictureReg]

There were more Chevy's sold today than Porsche's.

Do you have a point?

[TimInNC]

Good one!!!

[glamajamma]

more Chevys sold than Yugos as well, whats your point?

[Chicago48]

$10Million? Hey, I'll take it. What makes him so special?

[Orphie]

The "I live in a cave" contingent usually doesn't clock in this early.

[HispanicDidi]

I am a Mac person myself (never going back) and noticed the computer when I watched the episode.

Even if the contract with the show is with Mac, I think Seinfeld should have made a note to either have the computer out of his shot, or not shown the brand while he was on the shot. The computer did not have to be on the same shot with Seinfeld to make a point.

Seinfeld should have respected his contract with them.

[City of Evil]

Does his contract specifically describe what sort of electronic devices he can and can't be seen with?

[Moarku]

There is a precedent where basketball players who are sponsored by Reebok (for example) aren't required to wear a uniform with a Nike logo, even when the team they're playing on is sponsored by them.

If Jerry cared enough, he could have said, "I have a contract, so you'll have to move your product placement somewhere else." So maybe he didn't care, or maybe his contract ran out so it's a non issue. Or about half a dozen other possibilities.

[TimInNC]

Remember, you can run Windows on a Mac........ EWWWWWWWW!

[Goliadkin]

How do you know what his contract is with Microsoft? You are assuming an awful lot.