I've noticed too, the UK rags seem to have a lot more content. Macformat, Macuser UK, and MacWorld UK all look a lot better than the N.American stuff. I think there was at least one other UK mac mag that appears at my local Chapters. How's the mac content in Computer Arts, or Computer Music etc... though this would be geared to specific interests.
MacFormat is cool because they regularly give out abandonware on the included CD-ROM. I've seen full copies of 3D rendering software, commercial games from a few years back, and some other cool stuff.
Outside of free software I can't see the use in any magazine, and that goes for all topics, genres, anything. The internet KILLED print magazines to me.
In general, I think that anyone who follows up on daily Mac news at a site like MacNN, MacMinute, MacCentral, whatever is going to know everything the magazine is reporting on. You usually get the equivalent of a review through forums (and often, there are actual reviews available on the 'net), and the how-to's aren't usually useful, just interesting.
That said, I find MacAddict entertaining, on the whole, which is why I think it's popular; I doubt most of you guys would benefit from any Mac magazine's content that much.
The day MacUser merged with MacWorld was a sad one. That was a good magazine, I got MacWorld for a while afterwards, but didn't like it. I still wish it hadn't disappeared. I've got issues going back to the beginning (I think. Been a while since I looked). It's always fun to take a look at "coming soon, Mac Portable!" and other old school articles
I dunno, for me, I like to get macworld to re-read some of the articles i've read online. I'm a geek that way. Hey, they make for good bathroom reading
MacAddict - Used to be funky or fun. Unfortunately after they lost all the original staff now it is just a piece silly sh!t. Also VERY BIASED. Honestly I have couple of friends don't hate Macs but they are now after they read all those silly articles.
MacWorld - Too corporate to my taste.....now they are trying to be more 'close to earth' but still far away from it.....
MacHome - Infos and reviews not 'deep' enough
MacDirectory - Photos are very stylish (I like the style), but the content just doesn't really make sense.
MacToday (now MacDesign??) - Do they only know Photoshop?
MacUser US - I think is the best ......but too bad it's merged with the sickening MacWorld
IMO. None of the printed US based mac magazines on the shelf is good
I have a few boxes of Macworld from 91-present. The glory days of Macworld were when MacWeek was still a print mag and before the MacUser merge and Ziff-Davis buy-out. Large format, big thick magazines. 91-96ish
I got the new issue of MacAddict today and right away I started looking through it. Nothing interesting at all. I thought the past few issues were ok but this one's horrible except for the games article.
I have been s subscriber of MacWorld-UK and MacUser-UK for two years now. I found them much more interesting than the U.S. based Mac. mags. Also MacFormat is not bad either. I also find interesting that these magazines would have articles on well known NeXTSTEP/OPeNSTEP apps. as examples on what would come to be for OS-X. I also find all of these magazines tend to review apps and hardware a bit more fair-minded than their N. American cousins.
This thread just reminded me of the July 1995 issue of Macworld I have sitting on a shelf somewhere. It was the first Mac magazine I ever bought, and what an issue it was! A big article on Copland, the debut of QuickTime VR, and ads for Microsoft Office 4.2!
I subscribe to MacWorld and MacAddict, like many peeps here. They are both useful magazines, MacWorld more so. Although all the info you need is on the web, much of that info doesn't reach me for various reasons. So it's nice to have a magazine present it to you.
Each month I look forward to reading MacWorld and my absolute favorite magazine, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/"; target="_blank">The Atlantic Monthly</a>.
I have all editions of MacFormat from 26 to (about) 110. By then, I stopped getting them, 'cos the news was old by the time I read it, as opposed to the net. I used to live off those CDs, too, but the net changed that as well.
Great mag, tho'. Got my first HyperCard stacks published on the disk when I was 11
<strong>The only thing I wana complain about with Macworld is that I never get the CDs but the issues in the stores do. What's up with that?</strong><hr></blockquote>
You have to ask for them. I only get them because I subscribed online. If you look at like the 5th or sixth page it says that a 12 mon. subscription in 34.97. I think that includes the CDs.
You have to ask for them. I only get them because I subscribed online. If you look at like the 5th or sixth page it says that a 12 mon. subscription in 34.97. I think that includes the CDs.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Oh, ok, that explains why I never get them. I don't really mind since I usually just throw the cds out.
macaddict destroyed macworld UNTIL they lost david reynolds, and ian sammis only does the occassional article now (i can't blame either of them, though - david is at apple, and ian's doing the master's/ph.d thing... he's the most brilliant geek i have ever read).
um, macworld's reviews may be comprehensive, but they have been bloody awful since their "redesign" last year. they fixed alot of the design problems (gee, let's pick the biggest damn slab serif for our body text, so our content drops 25%, and we'll put the spillover on our website to drive hits... boy, that was brilliant) now macworld just likes to argue with readers in their letters to the editor section. andy inahtko is the only reason i read it anymore. and yes, it was better before pogue left... ah well, life moves on.
anyway, my vote is with macaddict, but it's a shakey vote these days...
also, macaddict's cd's are actually worth collecting. the staff videos are fun (well, sometimes), and they have a LOT of demoware -- good for those who don't have broadband connections for updates and such (hey, they were handy when i was stuck with a 36k modem for the first half of last year... ugh).
MacUser UK - It comes out ever two weeks, has great reviews, well written articles, up to date news and very good "how to do XYZ" articles (such as - how to write a stock market spreadsheet in Appleworks with Applescript that will update prices each time you connect to the web).
I buy it about half the time (money issues). I also won a competition they ran in May. I got a LaCie Electron 22 Blue, a LaCie external FireWire CDRW and a PocketDrive. For that reason I also love them!!
Basically a very good magazine.
When I used to live in New York (about 18 months ago) I never read the Mac magazines much. They seemed quite juvenile. Instead I got my news online from:
macnn, maccentral, pbsource, pbzone, macspeedzone, macreviewzone, The excellent Charles Moore (at MacOpinion, Applelinks and LowEndMac), etc.....
I went to MacWorld Expo in New York in July 2000. I went to MacWorld Expo in London last month. Both times I went with the same mate and both times we had great fun. Apple really did run a great show in London this past month, so did Adobe!
I like macaddict the best, but would it kill them to have the mag come out in the middle of the month with news from the begining? They used to have awsome how-to articals & fun stuff (Dave & Ian). The latest was pretty skimpy. I want more then 5+ pages on games.
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That said, I find MacAddict entertaining, on the whole, which is why I think it's popular; I doubt most of you guys would benefit from any Mac magazine's content that much.
My 2¢.
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MacWorld - Too corporate to my taste.....now they are trying to be more 'close to earth' but still far away from it.....
MacHome - Infos and reviews not 'deep' enough
MacDirectory - Photos are very stylish (I like the style), but the content just doesn't really make sense.
MacToday (now MacDesign??) - Do they only know Photoshop?
MacUser US - I think is the best ......but too bad it's merged with the sickening MacWorld
IMO. None of the printed US based mac magazines on the shelf is good
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Macworld was always crap.
Read Wired, its the king of tech mags.
The best Mac magazine now is the Internet.
The bad thing is that those magazine are very expensive (twice as much as the US version) in North America
Each month I look forward to reading MacWorld and my absolute favorite magazine, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/"; target="_blank">The Atlantic Monthly</a>.
Great mag, tho'. Got my first HyperCard stacks published on the disk when I was 11
Amorya
<strong>The only thing I wana complain about with Macworld is that I never get the CDs but the issues in the stores do. What's up with that?</strong><hr></blockquote>
You have to ask for them. I only get them because I subscribed online. If you look at like the 5th or sixth page it says that a 12 mon. subscription in 34.97. I think that includes the CDs.
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You have to ask for them. I only get them because I subscribed online. If you look at like the 5th or sixth page it says that a 12 mon. subscription in 34.97. I think that includes the CDs.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Oh, ok, that explains why I never get them. I don't really mind since I usually just throw the cds out.
um, macworld's reviews may be comprehensive, but they have been bloody awful since their "redesign" last year. they fixed alot of the design problems (gee, let's pick the biggest damn slab serif for our body text, so our content drops 25%, and we'll put the spillover on our website to drive hits... boy, that was brilliant) now macworld just likes to argue with readers in their letters to the editor section. andy inahtko is the only reason i read it anymore. and yes, it was better before pogue left... ah well, life moves on.
anyway, my vote is with macaddict, but it's a shakey vote these days...
also, macaddict's cd's are actually worth collecting. the staff videos are fun (well, sometimes), and they have a LOT of demoware -- good for those who don't have broadband connections for updates and such (hey, they were handy when i was stuck with a 36k modem for the first half of last year... ugh).
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I buy it about half the time (money issues). I also won a competition they ran in May. I got a LaCie Electron 22 Blue, a LaCie external FireWire CDRW and a PocketDrive. For that reason I also love them!!
Basically a very good magazine.
When I used to live in New York (about 18 months ago) I never read the Mac magazines much. They seemed quite juvenile. Instead I got my news online from:
macnn, maccentral, pbsource, pbzone, macspeedzone, macreviewzone, The excellent Charles Moore (at MacOpinion, Applelinks and LowEndMac), etc.....
I went to MacWorld Expo in New York in July 2000. I went to MacWorld Expo in London last month. Both times I went with the same mate and both times we had great fun. Apple really did run a great show in London this past month, so did Adobe!
Hewligan