My neighbor's 2.5 year old kid can switch cartoons from her mom's PC to his own room TV. I can't do that. So, why wouldn't an 11-year old get a $1500 laptop?

Meet Giampaolo, alleged recent college grad and engineer (good looking one, too) that is looking for a laptop. Does this story sound familiar to you? Exactly, meet the new actor in Microsoft's ad campaign.

At first, concept was simple: rip-off an MTV reality TV show with people doing crazy stuff for $5-10-20. But then corporate watchdogs rode in and well... staged the whole thing.