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MacAddict v. MacWorld
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: New Jersey
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I had a subscription to MacAddict last year, but I allowed it to run out. Now, I'm looking to renew it, or to subscribe to MacWorld. I thoroughly enjoyed MacAddict, but have no experience with MacWorld. I'd love to get both, but I feel like I would be encouraging my procrastinatorial tendencies. Any insight?
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Starting Line: 15" 1.25GHz Powerbook, iPod 5G 60GB, Nikon 3100, AMD 2200 & Intel P3 Winboxes
Honorably Retired: 12" 867MHz Powerbook, Quadra 610, Mac Plus, iPod 3G 20GB
Dishonorabe Discharge:HP AMD 2.4GHz notebook, Toshiba 1.5GHz Intel Pentium-M Centrino notebook
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MacWorld is more pro MacAddict is more fun. I found the guides in MacAddict generally better for the average person and the guides in MacWorld better for pro's. Both are good. MacWorld has much more reading. But i've liked MacAddict since 1998 when I got my first Mac 
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Blandine Bureau 1940 - 2011
Missed 2012 by 3 days, RIP Grandma :-(
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Banned
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Six feet under and diggin' it.
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Another Kevin/_kevin.
Awesome! 
MacAddict has a neat cartoon guy.
Yeah, I think MacWorld is more professional = not fun in other words.
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Addicted to MacNN
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best thing you can do is go to the store and pick up a copy of each for this month and judge for yourself which is better for you.
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Blandine Bureau 1940 - 2011
Missed 2012 by 3 days, RIP Grandma :-(
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by Rolling Bones
Another Kevin/_kevin.
Awesome!
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: manticore or people's republic of haven
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depends on what you want: macaddict is more...."fun" and not quite as stuffy as macworld. i have a subscription to both and find the different outlook from each to be beneficial. a prefer macaddict for the articles and how it is presented; but macworld is nice in that they have more kids software (granted probably cuz i have a baby).
i would recommend to go with Athens' suggestion and pick up a copy of each. the styles and approach are the same from month to month. macworld is more professional and macaddict is more fun-like reading.
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some people are like slinkys: they don't do much, but are fun to push down stairs.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Aiken, South Carolina, USA
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I like MacAddict. It's just a fun magazine to read.
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Addicted to MacNN
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Blandine Bureau 1940 - 2011
Missed 2012 by 3 days, RIP Grandma :-(
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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I gave up on MacWorld back in 1998 and never retook it. For whatever reason, for an entire year, Macworld went on this huge anti-Apple spiel. Started allowing Dell and Gateway advertisements in the magazine, doing really weird "benchmark" tests. When Mac OS X Server came out they ran some tests against Windows NT. The setup was this:
Mac - Single low-end G4 PowerMac with 256MB RAM
PC - Dual Xeon with 1GB of RAM
 Yeah, no wonder NT did better. And it wasn't just that, it was whole bunch of the crap as well. So I canceled it and never looked back. To add insult to injury, they canceled the U.S. version of MacUser.  I still have the last issue.
Luckily, around that time, MacAddict came out. They're a great magazine.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Union County, NJ
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THose should be checkboxes, not radio buttons.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Salt Lake City, UT USA
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It's been a long time since I purchased either (I had a subscription to MacAddict for a while). It seems to me that MacWorld drifted to becoming a bit more like MA. I'm not really interested in either as print magazines can't offer much I can't get online. I do miss having the thing to read wherever though...
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2008 iMac 3.06 Ghz, 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800, 500GB HD, SuperDrive
8gb iPhone on Tmobile
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Avoiding Hans advances
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MacAddict is the MySpace of Mac Magazines.
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"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!"
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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I find it strange that everyone is voting for MacAddict.... my limited experince with it was that they presented old news in a fun manner, and sometimes got it wrong.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Moved from Ohio's first capital to its current capital
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I've been a subscriber to both in the past, but to neither now (I still have whole stack of their CD's). I miss MacUser. That magazine was the best of any and I was sad when it was "absorbed" into MacWorld.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
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I prefer MacAddict, but more for the material on the discs. I would definitely agree that the material is a lot more fun to read too. The only problem with magazines is that they're all presenting material that I've read online for over a month. It is nice to get their full reviews though.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Boston, MA
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I Like Both.
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Silicon Valley
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I agree with Athens. I enjoy MacWorld because I feel I get more in-depth information that is targeted towards pros.
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Anyone who would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep. - Frederic Goudy
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: New Jersey
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Originally Posted by Leia's Left Bun
MacAddict is the MySpace of Mac Magazines.
Haha! The next time I read an issue, I'll think about this and figure out how it applies! 
Thanks for all of your remarks. I'll head over to B&N today and pick up one of each. For some reason, this absurdly simple solution never occured to me.
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Starting Line: 15" 1.25GHz Powerbook, iPod 5G 60GB, Nikon 3100, AMD 2200 & Intel P3 Winboxes
Honorably Retired: 12" 867MHz Powerbook, Quadra 610, Mac Plus, iPod 3G 20GB
Dishonorabe Discharge:HP AMD 2.4GHz notebook, Toshiba 1.5GHz Intel Pentium-M Centrino notebook
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Nashville, TN
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I'm solidly in the MacAddict camp... I'm generally unhappy with macworld as they seem to be overly stuffy and they were not improved by their redesign a couple of years ago.
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Don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Originally Posted by _kevin
Haha! The next time I read an issue, I'll think about this and figure out how it applies!
They use garish colours, forcefully hip and use silly icons.
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"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!"
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Yamanashi, Japan
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MacAddict is funny. MacWorld is dry. Both have good articles. Depends on the person to figure out what they like.
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Originally Posted by Leia's Left Bun
They use garish colours, forcefully hip and use silly icons.
Basically they are the SpyMac of Mac magazines.
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Grizzled Veteran
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan
Basically they are the SpyMac of Mac magazines.
Oh common, nobody is THAT bad.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
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MacAddict, but only because "none of the above" was an option.
I like Mac Design/Layers and Photoshop User, I'd take those over either mag listed any day.
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan
Basically they are the SpyMac of Mac magazines.
why does this seem to be a bad thing? garish colors, forcefully hip, and silly icons != spymac....inconsistent email servers, maybe. and how do any of the others apply to macaddict?
yeah, they have Max as their mascot and he is a spiffy character. the reviews are written in a manner that is more fun to read.
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some people are like slinkys: they don't do much, but are fun to push down stairs.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Neither, really. MacAddict was fun before cable modems were as common as ice in freezers. MacWorld—stale but acceptable reading material.
Everything you need, however, is online these days and more up to date than the preprinted mag in your mailbox.
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"You rise," he said, "like Aurora." 
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Addicted to MacNN
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MacUser UK > *
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Sep 2001
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I used to like MacAddict, but I became biased toward the magazine when the forums started to suck.
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I like chicken
I like liver
Meow Mix, Meow Mix
Please de-liv-er
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Mac Elite
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Addicted to MacNN
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I subscribe to both, although I'll probably not renew next time. With the vast amount of info on the web, and the ability to get it much quicker than with a two month wait, the magazines are becoming less useful. Magazine and newspaper circulations in general are experiencing steep declines, because of the web.
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Why is there always money for war, but none for education?
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Iowa State Univesity
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
I gave up on MacWorld back in 1998 and never retook it. For whatever reason, for an entire year, Macworld went on this huge anti-Apple spiel. Started allowing Dell and Gateway advertisements in the magazine, doing really weird "benchmark" tests. When Mac OS X Server came out they ran some tests against Windows NT. The setup was this:
Mac - Single low-end G4 PowerMac with 256MB RAM
PC - Dual Xeon with 1GB of RAM
Yeah, no wonder NT did better. And it wasn't just that, it was whole bunch of the crap as well. So I canceled it and never looked back. To add insult to injury, they canceled the U.S. version of MacUser. I still have the last issue.
Luckily, around that time, MacAddict came out. They're a great magazine.
Actually MacAddict came out in the mid-nineties, long before the G4, or any hope for Apple for that matter.
I've subscribed to both in the past but liked MacAddict much better. I was a teen into doing fun stuff with my Macs, so reading about the best quality $5000 professional printer (MacWorld-type material) wasn't high on my list of priorities. I like their annual April fools pranks and fun stuff like that.
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