MacAddict
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MacAddict is a U.S. magazine, known for its enthusiastic reader base and irreverent wit, published by Future Network USA. MacAddict was the first North American magazine focused on the Apple Macintosh to include a CD-ROM with every issue. The CD-ROM contains staff videos, software (including shareware and demo versions of programs), previews of what is in the hardcopy form of the magazine, etc. In its earliest years, the magazine was responsible for many QuickTime videos that depicted editors smashing personal computers that ran the Windows operating system.
As of June 2005, the magazine has the second largest audited total circulation in North America among Macintosh-focused magazines (with a rate base of 140,000), after Macworld, as well as the second-largest audited newsstand sales.
The website for MacAddict, www.macaddict.com, is updated daily with news relevant to Apple products. The website also features an active message board which is the largest forum to run on PunBB. The forum has over 16,000 registered users and receives about 2,000 posts every day. The shocking part is that all this can be run on just one Apple Xserve G4. Most of the forum members do not subscribe to MacAddict. Discussion ranges on a wide variety of topics usually about to the magazine, Apple Computer, and computers in general.