I'm so glad I ran across this! I've described it, and even sang large chunks of it, to people over the years and they never believed this actually existed. I didn't know about the Tiffany song until much later. I had to listen to it on repeat when I worked for a couple of months at Computer City before I got my first real IT job.
I have seen this a bunch of times over the years. There is just something about how he sings "And Apple inventory's finally going down" that always sticks with me.
I remember the first time I saw this while working in the Mac department of CompUSA back in the mid '90's. I don't remember who got a hold of it but, we played the CD several times a day for weeks! It is so much fun to watch it again after all these years. Thank you, DaveGarr :)
"Look at the wayyyyyyyyy PowerPC keeps gettin' faster" This shit is classic. I watched it when I bought my first Mac in 2004 and it's still funny as fuck.
you know. when i was in college i thought this was hilarious. now as an adult who has a job that does stuff like this, this video is like a horror movie
@@pureluck8767because I can absolutely imagine a bunch of managers trying to sell people on a very new and bad idea with a song and dance where everyone feels obligated to act like they’re having fun instead of counting down the hours until they get home
And in turn, Tiffany's version is a cover of a song originally by Tommy James and the Shondells in 1967. So this Apple version is a parody, of a parody, of a cover, of a song originally from 1960s.
there's a lot of good gags in this video but my favourite is when they're handing out macs and the kid who's supposed to be michael dell gets the macintosh xl
@@RedHairdo It took 2 More Years, but Apple finally axed Scully, Brought out NeXt and Brought Jobs and Wozniak back in October 1996. All it took was the Newton and Pippin.
I was an Apple repair tech at the time, my friends in sales used to get a monthly set of CDs from Apple called 'ARPLE' which contained all kinds of goodies… including this video. Even experimental software that never saw the light of day, like "OPEN DOC', which was document centered, not application centered, and 'FETCH' which was an AI search program that could even find photos by description.
The heat from intel chips still warm a mid-sized town (or even a larger one for 11th gen) and the mac has the banchmark crown in it's price range for the first time in a while thanks to the M1 chip. Here's hoping apple starts allowing clones so we may see a remake of this... and get the benefits of M1 on a platform that's not completely closed.
@ davegarr - I remembering emailing you around then asking for some more details on the video. I think I remember you answering along the lines of, "Err..how did you get a hold of it? Please don't spread it around." :)
No hate, just dissing. Technically Macs never left RISC: all Intel processors since the switch in 2006 have been RISC internally, with a CISC emulator on top (for compatibility). The only real CISC they had was the much-inferior 68k architecture.
@@RedHairdo this is false. CISC relates to the ISA level, not uArch level. The qualities of CISC are being microcoded (check, microcode can also be updated), variable length instructions (check, 1-15 instruction length), complex memory operations (check, add [ds:esi+ecx*2+0x67452301], 0xEFCDAB89). The qualities of RISC are SIMPLE control units (modern x86 processors have a simple decoder, complex decoder, and microcode sequencer, with macro-op fusion), and load-store (even new x86 additions like SSE have direct memory-register operations). All modern CPUs have a front-end and a back-end. The frontend fetches and decodes instructions into micro-ops which are fixed size. Even the 8086 did this even though it only had a microcode sequencer. On the P6 uOps were 118 bits long. The failure of the 68k had very little to do with it being CISC but rather to do with poor timing and decisions. 68k didn't have a built in MMU until the 030 but only for some models, 010 broke software, 020 was pointless, 040 was better than i486 but later i486 models could beat it by just outclocking it, 050 didn't exist, 060 was equivalent to a P5 but came out a year later. Both the 060 and P5 had very similar uArchs (superscalar in-order dual execution unit pipeline) but they abandoned it for PPC. They could have kept improving it if they really wanted to.
Wish @davegarr would add in some more details on how his videos came about but he doesn't seem to follow the comments? Too bad, I'm his fan for the two videos (Winsongs 95 is even better) alone. Love them to this day.
This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen. And more people need to know about it. This is handsdown better then any of the Microsoft dancing videos we have seen.
I'm not sure of Apple's inventory is going down, but I definitely think it's a clone now. Intel is the true American company between all of them, Apple, AMD, Nvidia, etc... Intel makes their own and produces their own. Still, Intel is milking it. How tf they gonna have 14nm and still be as fast as, and more compatible than a 7nm chip from TSMC that ships to Nvidia and AMD? I wisht that Intel would just beef it up and blow them out of the water.
As someone else has said, x86 will never go away, it's the US military among instruction sets. That said, that cat and mouse game has only continued, with Intel shipping the third generation of processors in the Intel 7 process (which is really just their fumbled 10nm process with all the kinks ironed out, but with a higher transistor density than the competition) while TSMC is already at 4nm/3nm.
He forgot to mention the best thing about being a clone. You can play with yourself, and nobody would have a problem with it. And to all you perverts, when I say "play with yourself", I mean playing a two player game with your clone self, and the clone would be your opponent.
Even the most misguided ideas are backed by a wave of enthusiasm.
The happiest song about one of Apple's worst decisions ever.
How I am just finding this now
I'm so glad I ran across this!
I've described it, and even sang large chunks of it, to people over the years and they never believed this actually existed. I didn't know about the Tiffany song until much later.
I had to listen to it on repeat when I worked for a couple of months at Computer City before I got my first real IT job.
@kimswartz231 Was that Computer City in Atlanta?
I have seen this a bunch of times over the years. There is just something about how he sings "And Apple inventory's finally going down" that always sticks with me.
I can think of sooo many good Mac themed parodies lol, "Return of the Mac" would be hilarious
2:29 a guy with a NeXT shirt!! This was way before Apple bought NeXT
I remember the first time I saw this while working in the Mac department of CompUSA back in the mid '90's. I don't remember who got a hold of it but, we played the CD several times a day for weeks! It is so much fun to watch it again after all these years. Thank you, DaveGarr :)
"Look at the wayyyyyyyyy PowerPC keeps gettin' faster" This shit is classic. I watched it when I bought my first Mac in 2004 and it's still funny as fuck.
Still true today: POWER9 mopped the floor with and smoked AMD, Intel and ARM combined upon release.
@@RedHairdo And with a dual-22 core system... you probably won't need a new computer for another 15 years.
This song is older than me, I love it so much and it’s a part of my childhood. I’m currently 16 so it’s not like I lived through that era
@gabrielderosa-xf9mg Sweet! It's hilarious!
you know. when i was in college i thought this was hilarious. now as an adult who has a job that does stuff like this, this video is like a horror movie
Why?
@@pureluck8767because I can absolutely imagine a bunch of managers trying to sell people on a very new and bad idea with a song and dance where everyone feels obligated to act like they’re having fun instead of counting down the hours until they get home
Because the Macintosh clone idea was a massive failure, and this song is so giddy about it. @pureluck8767
Gawd, I remember seeing this originally at a Mac User's Group in the day.
Note that this is actually a slight reworking of Weird Al's parody of Tiffany's original.
And in turn, Tiffany's version is a cover of a song originally by Tommy James and the Shondells in 1967.
So this Apple version is a parody, of a parody, of a cover, of a song originally from 1960s.
there's a lot of good gags in this video but my favourite is when they're handing out macs and the kid who's supposed to be michael dell gets the macintosh xl
This is so great. This is well done and with better production than most top youtube videos in 2021.
2:30 Kid with the NeXT shirt.... throwing some shade there??
Holy shit, well-spotted.
@@RedHairdo It took 2 More Years, but Apple finally axed Scully, Brought out NeXt and Brought Jobs and Wozniak back in October 1996. All it took was the Newton and Pippin.
I was an Apple repair tech at the time, my friends in sales used to get a monthly set of CDs from Apple called 'ARPLE' which contained all kinds of goodies… including this video. Even experimental software that never saw the light of day, like "OPEN DOC', which was document centered, not application centered, and 'FETCH' which was an AI search program that could even find photos by description.
Where could one find all of these videos? :D
Yeah, open doc was apples failed management trying to do something like OLE
In the spirit of that one line, even Nintendo went straight from 8-bit microprocessors to exclusively RISC designs since the N64 and GBA.
All kinds of interesting things on those Apple dealer CDs... those were the days.
I loved this parody at the time. But I’ve been racking my brains for a decade to remember where I saw the flying apple car and there it is!
Am I the only one that watched this video more the 2 times?
I'm still rewatching it months later. Years later.
absolutely love this song
The kid wearing the Next Shirt must have burned Jobs badly
This was definitely a parody of 'I think I'm a clone now', and not 'I think we're alone now'.
"Pentium chips $5/bag" That's how it is today xD
The heat from intel chips still warm a mid-sized town (or even a larger one for 11th gen) and the mac has the banchmark crown in it's price range for the first time in a while thanks to the M1 chip. Here's hoping apple starts allowing clones so we may see a remake of this...
and get the benefits of M1 on a platform that's not completely closed.
Watching on a Hackint.. I mean, a Macintosh Clone™ :^)
Watching this from a PowerPC Macintosh.
@@lepidotos What software are you using? I can't find anything to play nice.
RIP hackintoshes (can’t do it with the Apple chips…) I still have a ten year old one that’s going strong though!
They finally did this in 2020 after releasing macbook m1
Umm, no? M1 has no clones.
I love this video.
I really miss the Icon Garden...
I miss the whole 90s Apple with it .... :-)
Oh man.... '90s was a weird decade, huh?
@ davegarr - I remembering emailing you around then asking for some more details on the video. I think I remember you answering along the lines of, "Err..how did you get a hold of it? Please don't spread it around." :)
XD
And now Mac is going back to RISC and ditching intel hopefully for good.
The kid with the NeXT shirt and all the hate on pentium lmao.
No hate, just dissing.
Technically Macs never left RISC: all Intel processors since the switch in 2006 have been RISC internally, with a CISC emulator on top (for compatibility). The only real CISC they had was the much-inferior 68k architecture.
@@RedHairdo this is false. CISC relates to the ISA level, not uArch level. The qualities of CISC are being microcoded (check, microcode can also be updated), variable length instructions (check, 1-15 instruction length), complex memory operations (check, add [ds:esi+ecx*2+0x67452301], 0xEFCDAB89). The qualities of RISC are SIMPLE control units (modern x86 processors have a simple decoder, complex decoder, and microcode sequencer, with macro-op fusion), and load-store (even new x86 additions like SSE have direct memory-register operations). All modern CPUs have a front-end and a back-end. The frontend fetches and decodes instructions into micro-ops which are fixed size. Even the 8086 did this even though it only had a microcode sequencer. On the P6 uOps were 118 bits long.
The failure of the 68k had very little to do with it being CISC but rather to do with poor timing and decisions. 68k didn't have a built in MMU until the 030 but only for some models, 010 broke software, 020 was pointless, 040 was better than i486 but later i486 models could beat it by just outclocking it, 050 didn't exist, 060 was equivalent to a P5 but came out a year later. Both the 060 and P5 had very similar uArchs (superscalar in-order dual execution unit pipeline) but they abandoned it for PPC. They could have kept improving it if they really wanted to.
@@DorperSystems 68K was a Pure Micro Computer that first hit the market in 1979-1980. The 68K powered the Amiga and Sega Genesis. In 1985-1988.
Watching this on an INTEL powered Mac :D
Same.
Fuck Greedtel.
I think you might mean an Intel powered NeXT box 😀
Walter Steenvoorden lol
watching this on an M1 powered mac
the name is pretty similar to weird al's i think i'm a clone now
my school must have been the only place that bought Mac clones
@Super Mario I never did see any mac clones at any stores
@Super Mario schools must have been how apple stayed in business in the mid90s
Wish @davegarr would add in some more details on how his videos came about but he doesn't seem to follow the comments? Too bad, I'm his fan for the two videos (Winsongs 95 is even better) alone. Love them to this day.
Then Mac was an Intel.
And then mac rejected cisc and went back to risc.
42,000 ultra nerds have been here.
LOL at cow chips vs pentium chips!
watching this on an Intel triple boot windows/linux/hackintosh.
Felipe Cintron dork
So much better than the orginal!! Tiffany go home.
Brilliant.
Weird Al, they ain't.
awesome
good song
65scribe bring me there.
HMMMMMM COPY OF WEIRD AL "i think im a clone now" surely not a parody of a parody
I can't tell if this guy is 25 or 45 years old.
so THIS is why Apple almost went bankrupt in the 90s?
You got it. A fucktard ceo
No, it was because they stopped innovating when Steve Jobs left.
Who's here from Snazzy labs video?
Me
Me
This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen. And more people need to know about it. This is handsdown better then any of the Microsoft dancing videos we have seen.
Hes an idiot. This is way older than he is.
65scribe
I'd like to know that myself :D
I'm not sure of Apple's inventory is going down, but I definitely think it's a clone now. Intel is the true American company between all of them, Apple, AMD, Nvidia, etc... Intel makes their own and produces their own. Still, Intel is milking it. How tf they gonna have 14nm and still be as fast as, and more compatible than a 7nm chip from TSMC that ships to Nvidia and AMD? I wisht that Intel would just beef it up and blow them out of the water.
As someone else has said, x86 will never go away, it's the US military among instruction sets.
That said, that cat and mouse game has only continued, with Intel shipping the third generation of processors in the Intel 7 process (which is really just their fumbled 10nm process with all the kinks ironed out, but with a higher transistor density than the competition) while TSMC is already at 4nm/3nm.
Weird Al is gonna sue. >.>
He forgot to mention the best thing about being a clone.
You can play with yourself, and nobody would have a problem with it.
And to all you perverts, when I say "play with yourself", I mean playing a two player game with your clone self, and the clone would be your opponent.
This aged VERY poorly
Some well now, at least the intel bashing
hahahahahaha fcc ruined the internet
*cringe*
go fuck yourself
Awful.