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Steam for Mac OS is my Anti-Drug. Minus the Anti.

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You know, this is a very funny post to be writing, especially considering that a fellow gamer geek and I were having a discussion earlier today about the viability of the Macintosh as a gaming platform. Well, today when I go to check my e-mail, I catch a story that was posted on MacWorld that [...]

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The iPad: Seriously, What the Fuck?

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When I said that I wanted Apple to release a tablet Macintosh, I meant something running Mac OS X, or at least capable of running OS X and all of my OS X applications (i.e. Photoshop, CSSEdit, Transmit, Firefox, etc). I did not mean something with the watered down iPod/iPhone OS which only allows you [...]

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When I buy a Mac, I buy quality

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I recently heard of a new “I am a PC” ad through Low End Mac and I started getting intrigued as to the actress “Lauren” (who we later find out is a member of the Screen Actors Guild) goes into an Apple Store (which she incorrectly refers to as a “Mac store”) and complains that [...]

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You Really Did It, Didn’t You?

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Okay, you really did it this time – you went and co-opted one of the most stupid television ad campaigns in existence and used it to ask voters to vote no on prop 8. Please tell me that you did not use the same idea as Apple and compare the two when the reality is [...]

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The Apple Evangelistas and Me

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I was reading the book, the Cult of Mac and I came across the chapter that talked about Apple’s Chief Evangelist and about the mailing list known as the Evangelist. The purpose of this list was to publicize articles which talked negatively about Apple’s products and to help get people who were dedicated to the [...]

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