Why is This Intel Ad So Awful?

Intel released a pretty bad ad to their YouTube channel recently, so naturally Marques and David had a viewing party and pointed out all of the best parts.

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[CesarParzianello]

If those were actual Apple fans, they’d take a look at the keyboard and go “oh, a Windows key. On a “Mac”. Hm…”. End of commercial.

[lukemiani]

Precisely zero of the features Intel talks about in their goofy ads have anything whatsoever to do with Intel 😂

[TejasGuptaMusic]

They talk about upgrading the ram and then show off the surface laptop studio... 😑

[randaranatunga]

This is probably make people buy either AMD PCs or More M1 Macs

They’re digging their own grave right now lol

[starmorpheus]

"Are you a fan of Apple?"
"I have pledged my soul and body to Apple. I sold my children last winter to purchase their entire catalog"

[amoghk]

Imagine if Microsoft comes up with their own sillicon. Intel would be screwed... Which means more commercials like these..

[vishalmistry]

You guys should do this very often. This was a really funny podcast episode.

[cgnomazoid]

I work in Apple retail and in 3 years have never had a single person care if their new Mac has a touchscreen. They'll ask, sure, but when I tell them no they're like "oh good that'll save me a lot of smudges" which is completely true. Still have no clue why anyone would ever want a touchscreen computer.

[hxy]

When your i9 that requires a nuclear power plant can't beat the entry level M1 chips, this is what you do. Apparently.

[well]

It’s funny they never talk about the 2 of the most important things that matter in a laptop, Battery and Speed. These are the things that a chip maker should actually boast about but they never mention performance in these ads.

[DonLee]

Could you imagine devoting a whole commercial describing all the features of the products that actually don't have anything to do with your company... that is insane. It would be like Esso making a commercial about the features of a V12 Ferrari's to electric car drivers. "what if I told you, there's this magic juice you can put in your car, and you won't need to charge it. Your car can run in a matter of minutes instead of an hour!"

[darwishduja]

Intel : *makes cringiest ad in all of history*
Me: “Is that possible?”

[DeathstrokeGS]

Apple has best business strategy -They behave like there is no competition in market for them

[jmunayer]

As an Apple user that uses PC’s work since forever, I still can’t stand how bad Windows is with touch. Even now that I have a Surface Pro 7 for work, I never use the touch screen. Touch points are still way too small and it is still an OS designed for a mouse.

[keco]

As a Mac user, if someone asked "what is your laptop missing" I would say things like FaceID or ProMotion. Not "touchscreen". I find touchscreens on laptops to be ridiculous when you have a good trackpad.

[a.Hopeful]

"I'm an Apple girl, I live in a Apple World" 😂😂
This straight up Aqua reference cracked me up...

[phroggu]

I think the funniest thing here is intel claiming they're responsible for every good laptop feature

It feels like an unintended Apple commercial. I can imagine that picture of Tim Apple laughing at this ad.

[BunderChowed]

The cpu equivalent of Johnson’s Brexit strategy.

[gyroscope]

It always amazes me when giant companies paying thousands for ads that have to get approved by dozens of people before they make it on the air are so terrible.

How does no one in that process realize its a bad ad