In this ad for the Ultrabook Convertible, a lady starts using her Ultrabook, but it’s so futuristic, is makes everything go back in time, and she’s on a steam train platform all of a sudden. Then someone asks if it’s powered by coal and steam. But they don’t take this scenario far enough to be believable, because coal and steam can’t power such a device.
But if they just go back a little bit further, I know of something that can: witchcraft! So then there could be Puritans all around her, and she’d have this magical tool of the devil, and she’d ask where the train was, and that would be it (because there were no trains back then): they’d burn her and her Ultrabook at the stake, and the world would be safe for Apple iPads. (Just kidding: Because the apple is what the serpent used to tempt Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, they’d burn all Apple devices too as tools of Satan to tempt humanity into Internet addiction.)
But if they just go back a little bit further, I know of something that can: witchcraft! So then there could be Puritans all around her, and she’d have this magical tool of the devil, and she’d ask where the train was, and that would be it (because there were no trains back then): they’d burn her and her Ultrabook at the stake, and the world would be safe for Apple iPads. (Just kidding: Because the apple is what the serpent used to tempt Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, they’d burn all Apple devices too as tools of Satan to tempt humanity into Internet addiction.)
Oops, sorry: they didn’t burn witches at the stake in England, did they? So maybe she’d get hanged, but the Ultrabook would be fine, and left to her ancestors, who could revolutionize the computer industry years before Apple did, and we’d all be ruled by Terminators by now.
Here’s the convertible computer commercial:
