{"id":227677,"date":"2024-06-03T17:27:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/qualcomm-spoofs-old-im-a-mac-ads-to-promote-snapdragon-x-powered-pcs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:17:59","slug":"qualcomm-spoofs-old-im-a-mac-ads-to-promote-snapdragon-x-powered-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/qualcomm-spoofs-old-im-a-mac-ads-to-promote-snapdragon-x-powered-pcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm spoofs old &#8220;I&#8217;m a Mac&#8221; ads to promote Snapdragon X powered PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>Remember those \u201cI\u2019m a Mac\/I\u2019m a PC\u201d ads that Apple used to run in the late 2000s? They were so successful that they have their own <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Get_a_Mac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia page<\/a>. Several rivals have tried to imitate them, going as far as hiring Justin Long (the \u201cI\u2019m a Mac\u201d guy).<\/p>\n<p>Qualcomm did as well with a cheeky clip at the end of the Computex keynote, which introduced the first Copilot+ PCs, all of which use a Snapdragon X (Elite or Plus) chip.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, Justin Long is still using a MacBook and is still wearing casual clothing \u2013 but is now being pestered with constant notifications. Too frequent notifications are one of those nuisances that the Copilot AI can handle, either by muting them while you\u2019re busy or by responding for you when prompted with a voice command.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the clip near the end of the keynote:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Snapdragon Computex 2024 Keynote: The PC Reborn\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5R3QpKMciEw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Apple has designed its own powerful NPU, but it doesn\u2019t have an AI model on tap \u2013 unlike Qualcomm, which is working together with Microsoft on the Windows-on-ARM endeavor. Ironically, Apple is reportedly going to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/more_details_about_ios_18s_ai_features_emerge-news-63084.php\">partner with OpenAI<\/a> and Microsoft owns 49% of that (after investing $11 billion and is leveraging OpenAI tech for Copilot).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/06\/03\/qualcomm-im-a-mac-actor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Via<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/qualcomm_spoofs_old_im_a_mac_ads_to_promote_snapdragon_x_powered_pcs-news-63119.php\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Remember those \u201cI\u2019m a Mac\/I\u2019m a PC\u201d ads that Apple used to run in the late 2000s? They were so successful that they have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}