MacAddict

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MacAddict

Editor	Rik Myslewski
Categories	Computing / Mac
Frequency	monthly
Circulation	140,000
First Issue	September 1996
Company	Future US
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	www.macaddict.com
ISSN	unknown

MacAddict is a U.S. magazine, known for its enthusiastic reader base and irreverent wit, originally published by Imagine Publishing, currently published by Future US. MacAddict was the first North American magazine focused on the Apple Macintosh to include a CD-ROM with every issue. Contents of the CD-ROM include software (including shareware and demo versions of programs), and previews of what is in the hardcopy form of the magazine. In its earliest years, the magazine was responsible for many QuickTime videos that depicted editors smashing personal computers that ran the Windows operating system. The MacAddict website is updated daily with news relevant to Apple products.

As of June 2006, the magazine has the second largest audited total circulation in North America among Macintosh-focused magazines (with a rate base of 110,000), after Macworld, as well as the second-largest audited newsstand sales.

MacAddict will be rebranded as Mac|Life in Spring 2007.^[1]^[2]^[3]

[edit] MacAddict Forums

The Web site also features an active message board which is the largest forum to run on PunBB forum software. The forum has over 25,000 registered users and receives about 2,000 posts every day, all powered by a single Apple Xserve G4. Discussion ranges on a variety of topics; the magazine itself, computers and gadgets (both made by Apple and otherwise) and more wide-ranging personal and political issues.