Have you noticed that from time to time you’ll get a Mac catalog that takes a little creative license and grafts a screenshot of the “wrong” OS version onto a picture of a computer?  For example you might find a picture of a PowerBook G4 running the original Mac OS X Server 1.x, or a G4 with System 7.  When they make these pictures are they just mistakenly doing this, or do you think it’s something of an Easter Egg intended for those who will know the difference? 

I think that whatever OS the artist happens to be using at the time is what gets pasted onto the monitor.  Everyone knows that when they show pictures of screens, the graphic artist grafted a screen shot from a different computer on there, it is nearly impossible to get a shot of a monitor without the lines from flicker.  I don’t think there is any hidden meaning.

On 2001-08-14 16:27, Retro wrote:
I think that whatever OS the artist happens to be using at the time is what gets pasted onto the monitor.

So you think the MacMall artists are using Mac OS X Server 1.x to design the catalogs?

It’s not just the OS on the screen that’s sometimes odd. I got a Mac Connection catalog yesterday and next to picture of a current model graphite iMac - advertised as the new 700 mhz. iMac, which Apple hasn’t shipped yet - was the old hockey puck mouse.

Even more funny than Apple computers having the ‘wrong’ OS on the screen is seeing flyers advertising PC’s that have a Mac desktop on them. This happens around here all the time. I get flyers in the mail all the time advertising some generic boring beige PC that is proudly displaying some version of Mac OS on the monitor. It cracks me up.

I think the Mac OS X Server mistake was probably one of mistaken identity.  Obviously there are few graphic artists using X, but they wanted to have X on the desktop.  Their company server is probably running OS X Server, that would be my guess

Personally I think that the well-intentioned graphic artists that put great looking (Mac) faces on PCs are doing us a tremendous disservice.

Why make them look good?

Put a crappy old DOS screen up there! Maybe a blue screen of death. C’mon guys! Be creative about it!

-Dan

My favorite was a CompUSSR ad from a few years ago, right after the iMac came out. Next to the price was an asterisk, and below the picture was:

      * Monitor not included

Say what?!?!

Anyone happen to see the cover of “Visual Studio Magazine” this month?  No?  Well the computer on the front is _clearly_ a bronze PowerBook G3.  Here is a picture from their website :
 
I have a bigger copy on my lap.  You can tell they photoshop-ed out the Apple symbol, but the familiar F-key shortcuts for volume control and brightness, the fact that the computer has a bronze keyboard and a “Return” key instead of an “Enter” key, and a one-button trackpad button give it away.

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