I have found this feature to be a bit annoying, the “Cancel or Allow” for nearly every single thing you do on a Vista system. On a Mac you get this type of dialog box when you are installing a new program, and must enter the root password.

On Vista, it literally gray’s out your entire screen until you press cancel or allow.

A necessary evil on Vista? Sure, I don’t want my system getting filled with spyware or viruses.

Anthony, of the Opie and Anthony show on XM (aka Norton and Friends), recently purchased Windows Vista. Doesn’t look like the install went so well, so he decided to install it in another machine of his. Watch it below:

Personally, I installed Vista Enterprise Edition on 2 machines this past week. One was a fresh install and took almost no time at all. The other was an upgrade and at 5pm when I had to leave, I was 5 1/2 hours into the installation, and only at 54% of the Completing Installation screen. One tip, make sure you have a graphics card capable of handling the Aero graphics. It just seems less cool without them.

Was I the only one not very impressed this year with the quality of commercials? That, and I was looking for a rumored Apple commercial that never seemed to appear.

My personal favorite was the Blockbuster “Mouse” commercial, which strangely doesn’t appear on YouTube’s voting system.

The Budweiser “But he has a Bud Light” commercial was pretty good as well. Other then those, the rest were okay, but nothing spectacular.

What was your favorite ad? Vote over at YouTube.com/Superbowl.

It had so much potential, but alas it seemed pretty dull. Feel free to watch it above.

Update: Video removed due to Viacom removing all of their videos from YouTube.

This new Apple Get a Mac ad has surfaced on YouTube, but isn’t available on Apple’s site yet. The PC is getting a webcam upgrade for “serious video conferencing.” The IT guy (who is a new addition to the ads) mentions that all MacBooks and iMac already come with a built in iSight camera.

Outdone again by the mac, the pc just walks away.

Update: As Stevievep pointe out, this ad is now up on Apple’s site,

as well as the new Sabotage ad.

Earlier today I posted a new Zune Ad, and I figured that today’s YouTubesday post should be some of the great Apple ads over the years.

Let’s start at the beginning, the ad that started it all, Apple’s 1984 ad:

That ad aired only one time, yet is still one of the most revered ads in television history.

Simply because I don’t like to post more than 4-5 videos, I will skip ahead in time. Apple started their Think Different campaign ads, with Richard Dreyfuss providing the voice over. This is one of many times Apple would use celebrities for voice work in ads.

Continuing with the Think Different ads, (I’ve always hated that slogan, because that it isn’t grammatically correct) Apple decided to show off the iMac with Jeff Goldblum at the wheel descirbing different features and other such things you don’t really think about when it comes to a computer.

Next comes the Switch ads, these became one of the first major Apple ads that people would imitate. There are hundreds of clips out there of people with the “switch” music in the background griping about whatever they felt like. Apple’s ads included one that never aired. It was Ellen Feiss, and she seemed a bit out of it. Some say Nyquil, some say she was stoned. We may never find out. Below is the lost ad, but you can also watch the ad that made it to air here.

Now simply because there isn’t much time left, the last 2 major ads we are going to cover at the iPod ads, and the Get a Mac ads. You’ve seen many posts on here about the Get a Mac ads, so I won’t bore you with repeating those.

The first iPod ad was nothing like you see now. It was long before the silhouette ads that became synonymous with the iPod. It was a guy grooving to his music on the computer, then walking out of his apartment with the music on his new Apple iPod. It wasn’t cutting edge stuff, but it got the message across.

As a special bonus, I’ve included one last Apple ad. Yet another one with a celebrity voice over, Kiefer Sutherland.  This ad debuted last year at MacWorld,  and even though it was  inspired by a music video, it is still one of my favorite Apple ads.