The samsung 840 evo SSD, a drive designed with the recently lobotomized in mind

[Aikouka]

Geeze the female role in that is fairly degrading. She sounds like she sits at home all day hopped up on Valium, all she is capable of doing is chores and helping her kids with homework, and come time to install the SSD her first thought is "I can't do this".

Eh, I don't find it offensive. I think they were just trying to portray a stereotypical housewife that doesn't know much about technology. You know... the type that refer to Internet Explorer as "The Internet." My mom is pretty much exactly like that. She was going to pay someone $100 to setup her printer (just connecting it to the router via Wi-Fi) after I sent her detailed instructions (that included nice photos) from the manufacturer on how to do it.

She was telling me how her laptop wouldn't connect to the router, but every other Wi-Fi device would. I told her it could be the actual NIC card (I'd probably check the software first if I was there), and much to my surprise, she was willing to open up the laptop and look. I just hope that sort of thing gives her an idea (much like the fake woman in the video) that it's not so hard to do some of this stuff.

I don't even think they give you a drive bracket. Lame.

Eh, after dealing with OCZ's terrible drive bracket, I will only buy the FOXCONN brackets that Intel packages with their SSDs. I don't think I've found a case's drive carriage that they won't fit into, but I can't say that about the OCZ drive.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Eh, I don't find it offensive. I think they were just trying to portray a stereotypical housewife

Location: Alabama

 

[EliteRetard]

I'm confused, whats all the riot for? That seemed like a perfectly normal ad to me.
The whole time I was trying hard to find something odd or funny about it and there was nothing. So I read some posts here and you guys are all hating on their accents or something? Their outfits? How they're not "american"? Or think that there are no american women smart enough to install an SSD? Whats this about drugs? I saw no drugs in the ad.

I'd say that was a very representative ad. I know plenty of people frustrated with slow HDDs. And I know plenty of stupid gamers who think they actually know what they are talking about. Real example of american gamer counter argument FOR a low end laptop:

"Low range machines generally do not have a Graphics Processing Unit and since the E2-1800 does it is definitely mid-range. This means it can do non-gaming tasks very well and can run most new games at low resolution with a playable frame rates.

For example an E2-1800 based machine with enough memory should run SWTOR at 15-30 fps at 1024 X 600 resolution. Because the APU also contains a hardware scaler the image will display at 1360 X 768 and appear the same as that resolution except it is slightly fuzzy. This difference is only detectable when small text is on screen and otherwise looks the same as the higher resolution.

Some other lower-mid-range machines do not have GPU cores but use hardware to emulate a GPU using the CPU cores. That class of machine will run a GPU benchmark well OR a CPU benchmark well. Sadly, performance declines dramatically when a real world application loads the GPU's virtual cores and the CPU cores at the same time.

The E2-1800 had two AMD designed 64-bit cores and 80 ATI designed Radeon cores so the GPU cores are real and not virtual.

Since all mid-range machines all run ordinary non-game applications well it doe not matter too much which one is purchased. When it comes to games, at the end of the day, what really counts is how it runs and that is best shown by running it.

A gameplay video is worth a thousand benchmarks so find some gameplay videos and see how the E2-1800 and earlier E-450 and E-350 do. Keep in mind that the best video is the one that represents what the machine can do and a video made with a misconfigured machine will always run slower."

 

[Aikouka]

Location: Alabama

Hah, I'm actually far from what you'd consider the stereotypical person from Alabama.

I understand what bothers people about it, but I guess I just don't think something as small and worthless as a commercial is that big of a deal. I'm a pretty big nerd/gamer/anime fan; how often do you think we get stereotyped in commercials and such? I don't give a shit about that either. Overall, I guess the saying "making a mountain out of a molehill" is the best way to describe it.

EDIT:

I'm confused, whats all the riot for? That seemed like a perfectly normal ad to me.

They think the ad is misogynistic for their portrayal of the woman as a vapid housewife.

 

[JimmiG]

To be fair, it's not easy to explain to the average person what an SSD is or why you'd want one. People know about gigabytes and that 6GB of RAM is better than 3GB, but SSD's? For most, it would not make sense to get a 250GB "hard drive" that costs more than the 2TB drive they have now. I think the video made a decent job explaining what SSD's are about. It needed to be this dumbed down to show that it's something any computer user can buy and install. The inclusion of what looks like a USB kit and cloning software is just brilliant.

On another note, I desperately want the 500GB Samsung Evo.

 

[Triumph]

I am very attracted to the hopped up housewife robot ginger. I love this commercial. I now want "the SSD."

 

[Aikouka]

The inclusion of what looks like a USB kit and cloning software is just brilliant.

Some SSDs have been coming with those for quite a while now. They usually differentiate between those and just the bare SSDs by using terms like "Desktop Upgrade Kit". I got my first Apricorn all-in-one SATA-to-USB adapter from a Crucial M4 upgrade kit. I've become a bit of a fan of those as it's nice not to have to use a separate power cable!

On another note, I desperately want the 500GB Samsung Evo.

I'm waiting for a 1TB+ drive to be at a nice price point. Go, go Steam drive! :awe:

 

[Dari]

The real tragedy here are the idiots buying a TLC SSD drive like this when the Micron M500 960GB MLC is available. So, not only is Samesong selling you a worse SSD drive, they are also insulting your intelligence with this promotional ad...

 

[JimmiG]

Samsung Evo generally performs better. At 1TB, endurance isn't exactly an issue for normal users.

 

[Jodell88]

I was waiting for our resident Samsung hater to make a post in this thread.

 

[kage69]

I got my first Apricorn all-in-one SATA-to-USB adapter from a Crucial M4 upgrade kit. I've become a bit of a fan of those as it's nice not to have to use a separate power cable!

Same here. Switched a coworker's laptop over awhile ago. She didn't want the kit and it's turned out quite handy, glad I hung onto it.

 

[vi edit]

I thought it was actually somewhat interesting in that it's the first commercial I can ever recall showing basic computer upgrades to a non-technical audience. It was a bit awkward and overacted at times, but the message is that performing a hardware upgrade shouldn't be scary.

 

[shortylickens]

Anna Faris could have played the girl part.

FUCK YOU!

 

[dave_the_nerd]

The cultural translation issues are pretty damn obvious.

I'm just going to leave this here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eevsYYu5H5A

 

[EliteRetard]

The cultural translation issues are pretty damn obvious.

I'm just going to leave this here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eevsYYu5H5A

Edit: It's 4am I've been up to long.

 

[brianmanahan]

The real tragedy here are the idiots buying a TLC SSD drive like this when the Micron M500 960GB MLC is available.

Almost nobody is going to buy a 600$ hard drive, MLC or not

 

[Triumph]

The cultural translation issues are pretty damn obvious.

I'm just going to leave this here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eevsYYu5H5A

I'm leaving that on in the background. I find it strangely soothing.

 

[Gibsons]

Looks like they're really nice drives though. :\

srsly

 

[evident]

whats wrong with this commercial? it isnt the best but what's all the outrage for? some people have way too much time on their hands

 

[Raduque]

I am very attracted to the hopped up housewife robot ginger. I love this commercial. I now want "the SSD."

I want to give her "the SSD". :whiste:

 

[ViRGE]

Eh, I don't find it offensive. I think they were just trying to portray a stereotypical housewife that doesn't know much about technology. You know... the type that refer to Internet Explorer as "The Internet." My mom is pretty much exactly like that. She was going to pay someone $100 to setup her printer (just connecting it to the router via Wi-Fi) after I sent her detailed instructions (that included nice photos) from the manufacturer on how to do it.

Someone clearly wrote the use cases first, and then wrote the characters second. What they present is legitimate; a lot of consumers don't do much with their computers besides browsing photos and webpages (which is why they can get away with tablets) and are deathly afraid of changing anything for fear of breaking their machine. They just badly misjudged the presentation.

I want to give her "the STD". :whiste:

FTFY.

 

[yottabit]

Mirroring and replacing a hard drive is as easy as playing with those little toy bricks. Remember those little toy bricks!?!?

 

[Lobotomized]

ggnihhhhhzzzss.

 

[AdamK47]

Bookmarked for later

 

[darkewaffle]

Hahahaha, outstanding.