I’ve started to develop a fondness for these older computer adverts. This ‘Apple/Independence Day’ tie-in ad – from the dark days of 1996 when Apple was on the cusp of bankruptcy and Jobs was yet to return – feels comfortingly of that moment.
It is, however, very odd to see the Twin Towers still standing.
Starring the Computer tells me that the laptop used in Independence Day was actually an Apple Powerbook 5300, so it’s nice to know that the world can be saved with as little as a 100 MHz CPU paired with 8MB of RAM.