New PC buyer disses Macs for an HP laptop? FIX!

Steve Ballmer must really hate Apple. Just like the last ad this PC hunter, Giampaolo, wants a laptop with "portability, battery life and power" for under $1500. Once again they show him looking at the MacBooks, "this is sooo sexy...but Macs to me are about aesthetics more than they are about computing power...I don't wanna pay for the brand, I wanna pay for the computer" he says. But then he chooses a bog-standard, 15-inch HP! Do you think this campaign may be part-funded by Hewlett Packard, by any chance? If he didn't want to pay for the brand, he should've remembered that Microsoft were paying. He could have had an Aluminium MacBook instead of that plasticky Hewlett Packard... and it would be able to run Windows. The fool.

Reffering back to the post These days, who can afford a Mac?, the one where I said that I couldn't afford to replace my wife's old 12" PowerBook with another Mac. Well I've come to realise that I also need a notebook. Of course, I'll be plumping for a MacBook Air (as you may have read, I now know why underpowered notebook exists) and not the Dell Inspiron Mini that I've chosen for my wife. But only because I don't want to have to buy a Windows version of Adobe Creative Studio. This is not double standards. I'll need to design on my laptop, whereas she only use hers for eBay and email.
That's my excuse anyway.