First time I saw this commercial, I had no idea what "clone" meant in the computer world, and couldn't wrap my mind around what the commercial was talking about. Being the sci-fi fan that I was as a kid, I was sitting there going "What are you talking about? Having a clone would be AWESOME!"
@@lozzmon our pcs evolved into clones. Uniformity of hardware to promote implementation of software adoption tather than promoting software efficiency. It's why windows 10 is slower than xp
Anybody else remember the second version of the commercial that replaced the second kid with a middle aged guy that looked shocked, appalled, and offended at the thought of owning a clone?
I searched up this video after I saw it being used in a video by the channel This Exists, I owned an earlier model of this computer that was white, with only a 4GB hard drive being the major difference to this one. Oh man, those were the days...
I was just listening to Alice Deejay today after hearing it on the speakers in the local Walmart, then not long after I was reminded of this cheesy ad from IBM. Oh the memories, the tacky tacky memories. Sigh.
I was talking about this commercial to my co-workers today and they all gave me blank looks. (I live in the US but was in Canada during the early 2000’s) The Canadian-ism of this is real. I bet they found these kids in Pickering or Whitby....
Imagine being a human being but being raised in the hellscape of the GTA and then being farmed off by your parents to do this commercial so they could afford rice and beans. God Toronto sucks ass.
Having grown up in a border city, I never realized this was a purely Canadian commerical. I remember seeing it when it aired and laughing, all my best computing experiences were on clones. Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Theme Hospital, Terra Nova. It's funny to think that while now we say "PC", we are still using IBM clones to this day.
@@JoshJamesification It's really easy to find out the specs of any computer you want...and if you can't find the specs on a pre-built you are looking at, the company is not reputable...don't buy it.
@@JoshJamesification not really, people couldn't differentiate between the several specs of "Pentium 3" or "Pentium 4" any more than people could differentiate between "i7" or "i9" today, with zero knowledge of the various specs within each generation, let alone the generations themselves. In fact, most people only knew that their computer had a "pentium processor" or "Pentium 3", they usually had zero awareness of how much RAM, or which graphics card (if not an onboard chip). We were lucky if someone knew what soundblaster they had. I've done IT for a LONG time now, and if anything, things have gotten better, when it comes to people who game or try to game on PCs, but GenPop is no different than before.
The ad was most likely around the years 1999-2000. The song, which ironically is a "clone" of "Better off Alone" was released 1999, the year I graduated from High School. I am so old.
Oh man this commercial brings back a flood of memories and nostalgia of my childhood in Brampton Ontario. I was around 10 or 11 when this came out and I remember a friend of mine had just gotten a clone haha but we freaking loved that thing. I remember playing command and conquer red alert and NHL 97 on it and we thought the graphics were so amazing and we were blown away that the ice would get marked up as the period went on haha… oh man. Those were the days ! Also, I’ve gotta remark on those pc specs lol. Insane how far pc technology has come. 450 MHz cpu 64mb of ram and a 20gb hard drive hahaha my current pc has a 16 core 24 thread cpu that runs at 5.1Ghz 32GB of ddr5 memory that runs at 6200MT/s and 3080ti graphics card with like 35 teraflops (that is 35 TRILLION floating point operations per second ) man I love seeing how technology progresses. I am 34 right now and I wish I was younger just so I could be around a little longer… like what is technology going to look like in 2100 or 2200… so wild.
Damn, I've been looking for this for a while. I swear I thought I remembered that the song was the real "Do you think you're better off Alone?" Well, I was wrong.
When 850 MHz processors were mainstream anything less than 128MB RAM was anemic, I remember seeing these commercials and LOLing over the RAM. Good luck playing Giants:Citizen Kabuto on THAT!
Went to the site. They're still up. Their base system is 2.30/day for a 36 month term. Did a little math( being generous and multiplying by 30 days/mo for 32months). Total is $2,000. For a computer that doesn't compare with computers today
Yes I do ! I will get a quality build from a clone and actually get good parts, a kick ass power supply (that wont die in3 months), and a half decent motherboard with features you can actually adjust, and overclock. The kids in this commercial look like the people who use to call me at work. I also worked at Primus and let me tell you their internet sucks balls ! So when they ask you do you really want a clone,.....respond yes ! and give me a thumbs up!
I remember another one they did... the song was techno and an almost robotic voice said "only for a buck a day." I've never been able to find it though.
it was pretty disgusting when they were trying to trick people into buying ultra low-end brand name computers, as if brands had any meaning in the computer world.
Redhotsmasher You're replying to a comment on a video ad from one of them. It would be rather difficult not to know. These people sell you shitty low end brand name machines, probably even refurbished ones or otherwise unwanted ones, for "a dollar a day", but I believe they have bad pricing and interest, so you end up paying way more for it in the long run. And on second look, they're still in business! They just haven't changed their name anymore.
TheCheezWizz Ah. I just saw the ad in another video and searched the lyrics. "I believe they have bad pricing and interest, so you end up paying way more for it in the long run" - who doesn't rip you off these days? (The best thing to do in terms of computers is to never buy prebuilt at all if it can be avoided - I'm posting this from mom's office PC, which I built)
Back in 2002 i bought a dell, with a 2.53Ghz intel processor, windows XP, 128Mb Graphic card and 512Mb of ram, and i still use it! it even handles CoD BO, not highest graphics tho..
Holy crap, just last week (right before this video was updated), I was thinking about these old annoying commercials. I did a search on UA-cam and found nothing. A day later you've uploaded it. Bizarre!
lmao. 1000$ PC is a PC worth like 50$ today. a 850MHz CPU? 64MB SDRAM? 20GB HDD? lol. i love to see how much technology has advanced in about 15 years. i could easily get 32gigs of DDR3 RAM for 150$ compared to a whole system that has less amount of space on the HDD! simply amazing. it's a good thing the prices drop quickly when new tech is released or everything today which performs 100000000x faster for about the same money would cost thousands of dollars!
There were two versions of the commercial as I recall, and the campaign was active in the autumn of 2001 - maybe a bit earlier. Czar7474 thinks 2000, but I'm pretty sure it was 2001. (Just looked at my old outgoing email messages, and mentioned the campaign, which was wonderfully goofy, to American friends in the fall of '01.)
They try to sell it like "clone" computers would somehow have inferior parts in them, hoping to sell computers to idiots that don't understand computer components aren't made in house
Help me out somebody. There was another commercial just like this (same company I think) that ripped off a different song. Does anyone remember what it was?
i wanna call that number and see if i can get an ibm aptiva for a buck a day😂 somebody stole my aptive a few years ago, and i still want the damn thing back as i never even got to really use it
My grandfather used to think that this commercial was trying to protect teens from getting cloned.
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Well this is... just wonderful, haha
It’s glorious.. and you bought me here 🤣
Phrase of the week
#justabuckaday
Might want to change the intro of your main channel to this song. 🤣
Who else could lead me to that ad but Blerbs 🥰😄
Of course you found this. 😂
I've had this song stuck in my head ever since LTT featured this video. It's absolutely awesome!
You aren't alone
@@lenkasakan1104 i think shes better off alone tho
I heard this version growing up before ever hearing the original. To this day I still hear these lyrics when this song comes on lol
I learned of the original song sometime around 2019, but I've been singing this in my head since I saw it on TV decades ago.
Came here looking this video up after the original song came on at Taco Time reminding me this way as thing.
I got the same with Back Street Boys - "I want it that way" and Weird All Yankovic - "Ebay song"... :D
what's funny is the song is a clone.
+deprogramr of what?
I really want the song
+TheSaucyPickle .....Alice DJ- ♩Do you think you're better off alone ♩:)
whats funny is the clones are the pre-builts not the custom ones xD XD XD XD
#topcomment 😂😂😂🤣
And in more ways than one at that - It's the same rhyming-word-swap-for-the-sake-of-parody idea behind Weird Al's "I Think I'm A Clone Now".
I think at 0:12 that was the kid's genuine desperation to not be beat again if he didn't deliver the line right.
First time I saw this commercial, I had no idea what "clone" meant in the computer world, and couldn't wrap my mind around what the commercial was talking about. Being the sci-fi fan that I was as a kid, I was sitting there going "What are you talking about? Having a clone would be AWESOME!"
@@lozzmon our pcs evolved into clones. Uniformity of hardware to promote implementation of software adoption tather than promoting software efficiency. It's why windows 10 is slower than xp
You summed up my exact experience, gracias.
Anybody else remember the second version of the commercial that replaced the second kid with a middle aged guy that looked shocked, appalled, and offended at the thought of owning a clone?
I searched up this video after I saw it being used in a video by the channel This Exists, I owned an earlier model of this computer that was white, with only a 4GB hard drive being the major difference to this one.
Oh man, those were the days...
Same m8
heh ye me too If I Had a Million Pixels: A Short History of /r/place
I miss his videos
#meto
I was just listening to Alice Deejay today after hearing it on the speakers in the local Walmart, then not long after I was reminded of this cheesy ad from IBM. Oh the memories, the tacky tacky memories. Sigh.
I was talking about this commercial to my co-workers today and they all gave me blank looks. (I live in the US but was in Canada during the early 2000’s)
The Canadian-ism of this is real. I bet they found these kids in Pickering or Whitby....
I just had the same thing happen to me with a co-worker, and remembered this commercial came out when I lived in Toronto.
Imagine being a human being but being raised in the hellscape of the GTA and then being farmed off by your parents to do this commercial so they could afford rice and beans. God Toronto sucks ass.
WEW 64Mb ram?? Sign me right the fuck up.
SDRAM at that.
i love your music
@@rebane2001 thankyou!
We don't talk about Windows ME.
lol
I am so grateful this commercial is on UA-cam, thank you. 🙏
I was only 6 in early 2002 when this commercial was on TV! I used to see this everyday on Vision TV in Ontario. 😂
This is so early-2000s it hurts
go like a tad lower than early 00
Having grown up in a border city, I never realized this was a purely Canadian commerical. I remember seeing it when it aired and laughing, all my best computing experiences were on clones. Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Theme Hospital, Terra Nova. It's funny to think that while now we say "PC", we are still using IBM clones to this day.
They don't make computers like this anymore now I miss the early 2000s
Im pretty glad they dont make computers like this anymore
People actually knew what the specs were
@@JoshJamesification It's really easy to find out the specs of any computer you want...and if you can't find the specs on a pre-built you are looking at, the company is not reputable...don't buy it.
Omg Id give anything to go back to these days. I had that exact computer it was awesome back then
@@JoshJamesification not really, people couldn't differentiate between the several specs of "Pentium 3" or "Pentium 4" any more than people could differentiate between "i7" or "i9" today, with zero knowledge of the various specs within each generation, let alone the generations themselves.
In fact, most people only knew that their computer had a "pentium processor" or "Pentium 3", they usually had zero awareness of how much RAM, or which graphics card (if not an onboard chip). We were lucky if someone knew what soundblaster they had.
I've done IT for a LONG time now, and if anything, things have gotten better, when it comes to people who game or try to game on PCs, but GenPop is no different than before.
NOOO
I didn't get approved :( I guess I'll have to settle for a clone.
The ad was most likely around the years 1999-2000. The song, which ironically is a "clone" of "Better off Alone" was released 1999, the year I graduated from High School. I am so old.
I remember this commercial airing in the Fall of 2000.
+slamoureux 100% likely 2000 because Windows ME.
it has a copyright of 2001 at the bottom right
NOOOOOOOOOO
God this early 2000s aesthetic is goofy, but I miss it.
Oh man this commercial brings back a flood of memories and nostalgia of my childhood in Brampton Ontario. I was around 10 or 11 when this came out and I remember a friend of mine had just gotten a clone haha but we freaking loved that thing. I remember playing command and conquer red alert and NHL 97 on it and we thought the graphics were so amazing and we were blown away that the ice would get marked up as the period went on haha… oh man. Those were the days !
Also, I’ve gotta remark on those pc specs lol. Insane how far pc technology has come. 450 MHz cpu 64mb of ram and a 20gb hard drive hahaha my current pc has a 16 core 24 thread cpu that runs at 5.1Ghz 32GB of ddr5 memory that runs at 6200MT/s and 3080ti graphics card with like 35 teraflops (that is 35 TRILLION floating point operations per second ) man I love seeing how technology progresses. I am 34 right now and I wish I was younger just so I could be around a little longer… like what is technology going to look like in 2100 or 2200… so wild.
I keep getting this stuck in my head
OH wow, I remember seeing this commercial when I was very young! I actually didn't know it was a computer commercial
This got so much play back in the day. I knew this song more than the song it was based on (Better Off Alone by Alice DJ). Ha ha
All these techno songs just crush me and fill me with a sadness I can’t explain lol
Up to this day I still crack up to noooooh!
A Dose of Buckley brought me here.
😅I am your mother....u listen to me.......n
Same, I was dying when I saw that and I needed to just watch the original. It’s so painfully late 90s-early 2000s that you can’t help but love it😂
Damn, I've been looking for this for a while. I swear I thought I remembered that the song was the real "Do you think you're better off Alone?"
Well, I was wrong.
God I remember hearing this horrific jingle on TV. I didn't even know what they were ripping off until a few years later.
I hate advertising.
This song is dedicated to anyone who voted Young Link, Wolf, or Pichu for the Smash ballot.
This made me really want to own an IBM. This commercial alone. For real.
When 850 MHz processors were mainstream anything less than 128MB RAM was anemic, I remember seeing these commercials and LOLing over the RAM. Good luck playing Giants:Citizen Kabuto on THAT!
Went to the site. They're still up. Their base system is 2.30/day for a 36 month term. Did a little math( being generous and multiplying by 30 days/mo for 32months). Total is $2,000. For a computer that doesn't compare with computers today
I feel bad for all the clone troopers right now.
Just a buck a day for 346 years!
RIP childhood
This song needs more attention in the media.
And they are still paying for them to this day!!!
i am ashamed that this is a Canadian commercial.....
Millenial internet culture core memory
Snipars comment brought me here XD
top meme xdxXD 11!111!!1!!
Here from really obscure reference in the OneyPlays Crash Bandicoot 2 playthrough.
It really throws me off how the beat's slightly different, but it's still great hahahaha
Thanks. This randomly came up in my memory
You probably could've dodged that bullet by a few months (or a year) in either direction from getting that computer.
GTA6 here I come
Just thought of this commercial randomly so here I am.
Alright I was maybe 4 or 5 when this was running on TV and for the longest time I thought it was just a fever dream...
But here it is. I'm so happy.
I just want a computer that works.
noOOOOOO!
This explains a lot I thought it was the normal song over a pc commercial
Play games?! No way! So it can play Crysis.
NOOOoooh!
This beat was so bumpin that everyone needed to have it in there ads
Thank you for posting this!! My favourite Canadian TV commercial!!
A buck a day for a $1,000 computer basically the computer would stop working in three years or so. Or it could be a predatory rent to own store.
when i heard the new guapdad4000 song sample the original song, all i could think of was this.
19 people wanted a clone
Yes I do ! I will get a quality build from a clone and actually get good parts, a kick ass power supply (that wont die in3 months), and a half decent motherboard with features you can actually adjust, and overclock. The kids in this commercial look like the people who use to call me at work. I also worked at Primus and let me tell you their internet sucks balls ! So when they ask you do you really want a clone,.....respond yes ! and give me a thumbs up!
Theres your thumbs up 8years later when its now called a like ;)
This comment aged like fine wine.
When ads had disco music in the background
This is from 2000.
I remember another one they did... the song was techno and an almost robotic voice said "only for a buck a day." I've never been able to find it though.
Windows ME would be a deal breaker for me.
clones are only good when you're talking about arduinos
I wish someone uploaded knock knock knockin on buck a days door.
I actually physically remember this commercial haha ohhhh boy
LTT brought me here
I'm suddenly reminded of this playing constantly at late night on Global
@LilShizammy Yes I agree Clones are the way to go now, I love building my computers with the option of choosing how the tower looks like.
Better Off Alone needs to be more common now a days.
Seems like yesterday, but I thought it was MDG computers, no?
A DOLLAR A DAY?!?!?
Where can I sign up! Man they don't make good computers like this any more. :(
an IBM beauty indeed!!!
Nooo
64MB Sdram? I'm sold
I remember this commercial I was like 10 when it aired
it was pretty disgusting when they were trying to trick people into buying ultra low-end brand name computers, as if brands had any meaning in the computer world.
You're saying that like Dell and HP aren't still doing that.
MDG/Buckaday doesn't actually exist anymore.
TheCheezWizz
No idea who/what they were (I'm European, so many less known American things are completely alien to me).
Redhotsmasher
You're replying to a comment on a video ad from one of them. It would be rather difficult not to know. These people sell you shitty low end brand name machines, probably even refurbished ones or otherwise unwanted ones, for "a dollar a day", but I believe they have bad pricing and interest, so you end up paying way more for it in the long run. And on second look, they're still in business! They just haven't changed their name anymore.
TheCheezWizz
Ah. I just saw the ad in another video and searched the lyrics. "I believe they have bad pricing and interest, so you end up paying way more for it in the long run" - who doesn't rip you off these days? (The best thing to do in terms of computers is to never buy prebuilt at all if it can be avoided - I'm posting this from mom's office PC, which I built)
Back in 2002 i bought a dell, with a 2.53Ghz intel processor, windows XP, 128Mb Graphic card and 512Mb of ram, and i still use it! it even handles CoD BO, not highest graphics tho..
wow!!!
Do you still use it now?
@@BenDavidin5784 Sometimes to play older games :3
Damn. This is as old as i am. This looks really old, even though it kinda isn't.
NOOOOO?!???
Ahah yeah, I remember this commercial!
Battlefield 1 here I come..
Called the number but now it isn't for a cheap computer anymore.
Holy crap, just last week (right before this video was updated), I was thinking about these old annoying commercials. I did a search on UA-cam and found nothing. A day later you've uploaded it. Bizarre!
LOL catchy tune
Remember this commercial..so Cheezy..
noo
just say hell no to a clone
lmao. 1000$ PC is a PC worth like 50$ today. a 850MHz CPU? 64MB SDRAM? 20GB HDD? lol. i love to see how much technology has advanced in about 15 years. i could easily get 32gigs of DDR3 RAM for 150$ compared to a whole system that has less amount of space on the HDD! simply amazing. it's a good thing the prices drop quickly when new tech is released or everything today which performs 100000000x faster for about the same money would cost thousands of dollars!
There were two versions of the commercial as I recall, and the campaign was active in the autumn of 2001 - maybe a bit earlier. Czar7474 thinks 2000, but I'm pretty sure it was 2001. (Just looked at my old outgoing email messages, and mentioned the campaign, which was wonderfully goofy, to American friends in the fall of '01.)
Love this commercial, but do you have the other version of this that has a cover of Double Vision - Knockin'?
I am knock knock knocking knock knock knocking...knocking on buck a days door
A 2000 AD, because of the Windows ME
This is my generation gap with so many people lmaoo
They try to sell it like "clone" computers would somehow have inferior parts in them, hoping to sell computers to idiots that don't understand computer components aren't made in house
Help me out somebody. There was another commercial just like this (same company I think) that ripped off a different song. Does anyone remember what it was?
Yes. I believe there was one that used a knockoff of Harder Faster Better Stronger?
You might be thinking of the Scatman ripoff "I'm The Computer Man!" ua-cam.com/video/V51OJr0ee6E/v-deo.html
Yes, Windows ME!
i wanna call that number and see if i can get an ibm aptiva for a buck a day😂
somebody stole my aptive a few years ago, and i still want the damn thing back as i never even got to really use it
"Windows Me" no thanks.