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Ellen Feiss (born 1987) became an Internet phenomenon after her 2002 Errol Morris-directed television commercial for Apple Computer's Switch campaign grew into a cult hit. In the commercial, the then-15-year-old American high school student, Feiss, complains that her father's Windows PC "was like, bleep bleepbeepbeep" and then "devoured" her school paper, which she then had to rewrite quickly, which was a "bummer."

The incident she describes in the commercial is presumably an operating system crash which prevented the keyboard buffer from being read, causing it to fill up. The BIOS on such computers will often cause the motherboard's speaker to beep with every keystroke when the keyboard buffer is full.

Fueling the popularity of the advertisement was her attractiveness and the speculation that Feiss was under the influence of illicit drugs during the filming of the commercial, due to her slurred speech and disoriented eyes. In the only interview she was to give, Feiss denied these claims in the and noted she was only taking allergy medication. That, plus exhaustion (apparently her ad was filmed near midnight) allegedly produced the "druggie" behaviour.

A second ad, in which Feiss talks about the virtues of her PowerBook G4, ending with an almost ecstatic "I really love my G4" was circulated exclusively on the Internet.

Feiss' popularity grew to the point where she was offered appearances on both David Letterman's and Jay Leno's late night shows, both of which she turned down.

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