Dell Responds to MacBook Air with Super Envelope (Humor)

11:59 pm, July 2nd, 2008, Pete Mortensen

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8 comments

hahaha nice video.
dell=loser

Adrian, on July 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 am

the funniest part is that that ad will probably sell more Macs than any Mac ad. why? because a lot of folks don’t want to deal with all those pieces and cables. why should they when they can get sleek iMac with a wireless mouse and keyboard and have one cable. and you can use one of at least 3 programs to run windows on it if that’s what you want.

charli, on July 3rd, 2008 at 7:07 am

The video is NOT by Dell, but by a comedy troop from the University of Maryland called, “The Bureau”. It took me all of 36 seconds to research that.

1) Watch credits
2) go to website named in credits
3) done

If Dell made the spoof, they would have polished it a bit more than that.

Maybe you should do the right thing and properly give credit in your post to the people that actually made the video.

Buddy, on July 3rd, 2008 at 7:13 am

Yeah, I don’t think anyone was under the impression that this was actually made by Dell…

Pete Mortensen, on July 3rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Yeah, I don’t think you get the point.

When I read the title, and then read the short, three sentence blurb, you clearly give Dell credit for this. Once I started watching the video, I questioned if Dell actually made the video. Watching the video to the end, it becomes apparent that it was done by The Bureau.

The point is, you are posting someone else’s work, do them the justice of giving them credit.

Buddy, on July 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm

Misleading article/headline. Maybe stop being so amateur?

Daniel, on July 4th, 2008 at 10:02 am

So some of you guys actually think that Dell commercials are hosted on funnyordie.com and then feel the need to tell the poster he got it wrong? Wow, that’s sad.

Fart, on July 5th, 2008 at 3:25 am

This ad has been around forever (ok, since the same week the Air was released). You guys are a little late…

B, on July 5th, 2008 at 7:56 pm