Meet the face of Asus, MSI and Apple

 

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By Matthew Sparkes

Posted on 19 May 2008 at 10:31

In the world of cheap notebooks, profit margins are wafer-thin, with precious little budget for advertising and marketing, but here's proof that some corners just shouldn't be cut.

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The cheerful young notebook user pictured below has accidentally been featured in advertising campaigns for Asus and MSI's competing laptops.

Rather than shooting a new image for their adverts, the companies went to the online image library, Getty Images, and found a stock shot. Unfortunately, both stumbled across the same image.

To make matters worse, a little detective work shows that he's actually an Apple fan. In the original image the orange-hatted kid can be clearly seen using a MacBook.

Asus has at least done a better job of doctoring its laptop into the image than MSI has. In the latter image the notebook seems to float magically just above the desk.

A similarly embarrassing revelation recently hit Microsoft. On closer inspection of an advert produced by the company, the notebook being used can be identified as an Apple PowerBook.