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danieldols, kenfan, patrickqueisler, Scuddr, and 322 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Ben Woodruff (46 months ago | reply)
no way... haha
neatlife (46 months ago | reply)
dude! You sure?
Asdrubal Chirinos (46 months ago | reply)
Nice photoshop
wingman3439 (46 months ago | reply)
That's insane. One more reason to own a mac.
Weston Alan (46 months ago | reply)
haa! well, they do dual-boot.
mike.laan (46 months ago | reply)
I knew it!
Fabien H (46 months ago | reply)
the vga out apple cable makes it legit !
nice shot !
Plutux (46 months ago | reply)
Photoshop ? No way... I was there and here's another shot : http://flickr.com/photos/choubistar/243949917 0/
Paint.It.Black (46 months ago | reply)
Actually there were two MacBook Pro's on stage which were alternated for the different presentations. Unfortunately I don't have a shot where you can see both...
smokeonit (46 months ago | reply)
this is not photoshopped!
ρrakaz (46 months ago | reply)
Ballmer is a hypocrite :-)
That freak onced laughed at the iPhone: uk.youtube.com/watch?v=C5oGaZIKYvo
aryayush (46 months ago | reply)
It's actually kind of insulting that I'm using the same notebook that Steve Ballmer uses. Hardly a reason to buy a Mac, you know.
However, it turns out that he wasn't the one using it. It was being used by the organisers for the presentations, and Ballmer's happened to be one of them.
Still, it's a rare sight for sure. :)
The Dark Free Soul (46 months ago | reply)
This is cool stuff :) Ahahahh... impressive!!
Τ (46 months ago | reply)
Great !
davidjonesuk (46 months ago | reply)
Consider that:
- MS invested heavily in Apple in the earlier days
- MS Office for Mac is a rather large earner for MS
- You don't choose the machine that you use for presentations like these
Seems like all the nay-sayers are too keen to jump up and shout
Τ (46 months ago | reply)
- M$ invested (not much) in Apple stock options only when their problems with the justice required them to do so, to calm the accusations of monopoly and it was not in the earlier days, but a few years ago.
- They quite quickly sold their shares, when it calmed down, they don't own any Apple stocks anymore.
- M$ Office is, indeed, a good earner for them, but Apple needs it more than M$ needs Apple.
- Presentations can and will be made with the presentator's machine, at his request. He just needs to ask. Besides, if monkey boy asks something, he gets it.
Well, as far as I know, at this presentation, monkey boy is known to have spotted two Mac users in the audience and yelled "shoot them!".
- It may have run PowerPoint nonetheless.
- Lastly, maybe this Mac was running windoze and PowerPoint.
Oh well…
This is too good an image to spoil it. Let's dream and imagine ballmer was using Keynote! ;o)
ununumium (46 months ago | reply)
LOL
Mr Lees (46 months ago | reply)
cool. but aren't macs getting a little too popular. I liked it better in the more esoteric days!!!!
jensenrf (46 months ago | reply)
Yes but was the presentation keynote or powerpoint?
south02245 (46 months ago | reply)
Apple.....allowing Microsoft to present flawlessly since 1976!!
JadenGuy (46 months ago | reply)
since when don't macbooks run windows?
chrischowdhury (46 months ago | reply)
I don't see Steve Ballmer...
iamnathanjohnson (46 months ago | reply)
this made my day good.
Bayliss. (46 months ago | reply)
pwange.
cincyimages (46 months ago | reply)
I see what you did there.
Brajeshwar (46 months ago | reply)
What a predicament!
simonengelbert (46 months ago | reply)
Inaccurate.....
"I was there and I have to say that there WAS a leftover Mac from a non MS speaker. The 2 previous presenters used it for their keynotes. Ballmer didn't use a computer at all, it was just an automatic slide."
Taken from flickr.com/photos/choubistar/2439499170/
Thadeus Maximus (46 months ago | reply)
mmm...maybe it is running windows
In any case still funny as hell!
Matt McGurn (46 months ago | reply)
They can't even be forward-thinking enough to cover up the logo? Damn M$ sucks.
THE.MAC.GOD (46 months ago | reply)
Why use anything else? Run ALL your OSes better on the Mac! Simultaneously!
fiedav (46 months ago | reply)
Hold it, hold it.
I have worked on a presentation given by a Microsoft exec, and any laptops on stage are superfluous.
The presentation is run on two (for redundancy) PCs backstage. There is a Stage Manager who tells these PC operatives when to advance the slides. Ballmer (or whoever) has a clicker, but this only goes to the Stage Manager. In front of the stage, facing the presenter, and covered with black cloth so that you don't notice them, are large TV monitors with the slide on some and notes on another.
My guess is the Apple laptop was owned by one of the stage crew.
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antiMac (46 months ago | reply)
That is hilarious, just as hilarious as this one:
iPhone XP
freelance samurai (46 months ago | reply)
@wingman3439, actually...that's a reason *not* to own a mac. :P
CrystalCreek [deleted] (46 months ago | reply)
They've photoshopped themselves a NEW LOW, for the MAC Propagandists.
nmyra (46 months ago | reply)
if it's real...i love it!
Pearse-SP (46 months ago | reply)
oh my god thats FREAKIN AWESOME
Tom Lowe @ Timescapes (46 months ago | reply)
i seriously doubt it.
SteadyHand (46 months ago | reply)
If it's real, Balmer himself should be the PC in the Mac commercials.
If it's fake, its hysterical.
If forced to choose, I would pick the latter.
Well done.
Bryan Gosline (46 months ago | reply)
AH-mazing
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Ben Jacob is moving to flickr/benjacob [deleted] (46 months ago | reply)
Do you have is Macintosh Desktop Screenshot ?.. I know it will be running a Windows Vista Ultimate
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Niraj Desai (46 months ago | reply)
LOL
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http://digg.com/apple/What_laptop_does_Steve_ Ballmer_use_for_his_presentations (?)
guchi guchi (46 months ago | reply)
it looks authentic.
sfinney180 (46 months ago | reply)
bootcamp, maybe? lol
mojirisonthetv (46 months ago | reply)
Professionals absolutely adore Mac book.
scottperezfox (46 months ago | reply)
shouldn't that title read "graduateS"?
joecab (46 months ago | reply)
It's just for a presentation somewheres. Who cares? Do you really think he uses a Mac for his own work? Besides even if it was a MacBook Pro running Windows, MS still got their money for selling the software.