Dell Accidentally Combines Mac OS X and Windows 8 in Laptop Ad [Video]

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Posted February 3, 2014 at 7:32pm by iClarified

Dell has posted a commercial for its Dell XPS 15 laptop that accidentally shows the device running a combination of Mac OS X and Windows 8.

The Verge noticed that "The entire marketing video, released in December, shows a laptop that seamlessly switches between the Windows 8 Start Screen and apps running in OS X, all thanks to a flick of the wrist or a tap on the screen."

The site theorizes that Dell's marketing team got a little too creative when producing the video.

Take a look below!

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Dell Accidentally Combines Mac OS X and Windows 8 in Laptop Ad [Video]

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sH23 - February 5, 2014 at 8:39pm

Maybe they don't care and or did it on purpose. They didn't indicate they weren't doing that.

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O - February 4, 2014 at 1:09pm

LMFUCKINGAO

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tt5an9 - February 4, 2014 at 10:07am

Well! If you got the chance to watch the video twice, and listen carefully to what the background voice-over, then you know it won't be suprise ever it shows three computer (Mac OSX, Linux, Windows) on the same screen. Come on, I am posting with COMMON SENSE, the title of Dell's Ad is saying how good the screen of its debuted touch-screen laptop is, not that they are Microsoft's buddy-buddy. Please re-watch the Ad again

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56f9551 - February 4, 2014 at 10:02am

Tt5an9@ Haha! You're just making argument from ignorance.

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Nitro Junkie - February 4, 2014 at 7:43am

The action strip isn't what they're talking about. It's the red, green, yellow circle buttons. Which are not found in windows.

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paulMOGG - February 3, 2014 at 11:15pm

I can't see the video when I hit the play button on the video it says' this video is private ' what's happening ?

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iClarified - February 4, 2014 at 3:10am

They blocked it. We'll repost it shortly.

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Bishop - February 3, 2014 at 7:37pm

How did they even get the OSX apps to run on windows?? Isn't Dell all buddy-buddy with Microsoft, and if they were they probably should have been strutting windows 8 apps.. Oh wait, what windows 8 apps?

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Nitro Junkie - February 3, 2014 at 10:33pm

It's not that they were running an osx app on a dell laptop with windows. Whom ever made the commercial and edited it was obviously using a Mac.

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Nitro Junkie - February 3, 2014 at 7:37pm

That's awesome. More than likely the commercial for a windows PC was created and edited on a Mac. Priceless.

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Me - February 3, 2014 at 7:36pm

New Bootcamp for Windows 8. They wish!!!

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Alberto - February 3, 2014 at 7:35pm

That's really stupid!

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Tt5an9 - February 3, 2014 at 7:39pm

In the video, it was mentioning its monitor has 5 times more pixel than HD, then showing a LCD I guess it's the old MacBook Pro or normal LCD running Mac OSX, I found nothing wrong they are just comparing side rent OS with same software on lower quality monitor

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Tt5an9 - February 3, 2014 at 7:41pm

I found nothing wrong they are just comparing different OS running the same Apps. Plus you can see that in the video during OS X, there are TWO monitor, there's a edge of monitor

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