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I come back to the forums for the first time in months... and THIS awaits me? I'm sad...

Going on record here:
1) MacAddict is by far the name I like better.

2) I would never blind buy or blind subscribe to MacLife (which is how I first got MacAddict). The name says "plain vanilla, made for new users" the way MacHome does (and is). Even MacWorld doesn't make me think "for new users" like the MacLife and MacHome names do.

3) I refuse to become MacLife4Life. I will be MacAddict4Life4Life. (Uh, not saying I'm changing my name to that, saying my name will remain the same for the duration of life).

That is all.

MacLife is fine with me.
Mac|Life is not. I despise using non-alphanumerics in a name. It causes great difficulty with data entry.

oh please, i can't believe you people.  sure i'll miss getting macaddict in the mail, but i look forward to maclife, thats because thats what i have, the mac is the center of my life at home (well, second to my son anyway).  change comes.  there is no stopping it.  so i feel that instead of moaning like a bunch of babies, lets show how much we love macs, and the staff of macaddict and support them in this change.  instead of making them feel bad about a change i'm sure they don't have much control over, lets ask them meaning full questions about the new mag, you know, the kinds of deep questions they are used to trying to get answers from apple on regarding new stuff.  let them have fun trying to tell us as much as possible while keeping it hush hush.  i sertainly hope the format doesn't change too much, just adding more to it.  so far with every change the mag has gone through, i've liked it better.  its not as boring as macword (it has way too much text, and not enouph pictures and fun stuff, aka niko), but i do find cool things in it every month.  stuff that even makes my pc buddies go wow.  so, macaddict, soon to be maclife, keep up the good work.  rik, i'll miss reading your editorial, but good luck in your new path.  this mag ROCKS!

Rik wrote:

kamizuno wrote:

Our postcopunts are going to ge zeroed out?  Bwahahaha, it's like communism only without the nucular missiles

Who said anything about your post counts being zeroed out?  That sounds like a lousy idea to me -- I'll do what I can to make sure it doesn't happen.

I mentioned it off-hand. Like other moronic posts in here, it's taking the minute details of what's being said  in order to make a snarky jab rather than stepping back 10 years and having a look at the big picture.

I certainly like the idea of more pages of content! Each MacAddict takes me about a day to get through, whereas a thicker magazine like Wired takes me around a week. I've often wished MA were a lot longer, so I'm looking forward to ML.

I look forward to MacAddict Forums (MAF) becoming the Mac|Life Forums (M|LF).

Keep Max.

Please, reread the originals. There was a spark there, and it was the reason that this has been my most visted site ever since I joined. The spark has since faded from the magazine, but a dying trace of it still remains on this forum. Please, take a look at the offshoots of this forum: www.clubhouse54.com and www.appleaddict.com

Relax, have voice, and have fun.

justine wrote:

Ya know, you guys really need to give it a chance. Some of you are condemning the change before the first issue under the new name goes to press. I admittedly don't like change, and i prefer the current name, but at least i'm going to give it a chance.

I plan to give the new magazine a chance.  I just don't like the new name.  The other changes are okay if it doesn't become MacWorld with a MacLife label.

If I'm a n00b to Mac mags, the first thing I would think of upon seeing the name MacAddict, is that it's written by a cult of extremely biased Mac geeks, who instantly accept Apple's benchmarks as fact and spend 1 hour each morning kneeling silently before a bobble-head figure of Steve Jobs.  This assumption, however exaggerated, is not entirely unreasonable.  I have several sample copies of various magazines (now-deceased) from NY MW Expos, where all they do is trash-talk the PC and claim that the G4 is faster than a P4 because "Apple says so" in their infamous Photoshop action test.

MacAddict is different.  MacAddict is, and always has been, an intelligent and non-partial source of Mac news, reviews, wow-to's, bizarre hacks, and witty remarks.  I personally have grown accustomed to the name MacAddict, but times have changed, and the name MacAddict just isn't all that inviting to the growing population of switchers in recent years.  Face it people, times change, and you've got to change with them.

I patiently await the barrage of hipocracy accusations from those who recall how I feel about Apple's history with backwards compatibility.

Here's to you Rik, Niko, Susie, Roman, Mark, Peter and Max.  Best of luck.

Pariah wrote:

If you are not a n00b do not presume to speak in behalf of n00bs.

At one time, I was a n00b, and that's exactly how I felt

There weren't any Mac oriented Mags back when I was a n00b

Pariah wrote:

There weren't any Mac oriented Mags back when I was a n00b http://homepage.mac.com/oatmeal/MAF/maxes/wahhing.gif

There was MacWorld, wasn't there?  Or do you speak of pre-Mac times?