'MacHeads' film to debut at MacWorld

'MacHeads,' a movie about the Apple and Macintosh culture, is set to premiere at MacWorld on January 7, 2009.

(Credit: MacHeads)

For the faithful planning to attend MacWorld 2009 next month in San Francisco, there's one more reason, beyond the usual iPhone, Mac and iPod news, to get excited.

That's because the producers of the Mac and Apple culture documentary, MacHeads, say they are going to debut the film at the show.

The film, which takes an in-depth look at the evolution of the so-called "cult of Mac," is scheduled to premiere on January 7, 2009, at Moscone Center's North Hall.

The producers noted that showing MacHeads for the first time at MacWorld is an appropriate thing to do, given that they shot the film's first reel at MacWorld 2007.

MacHeads features, among others, former Apple chief evangelist Guy Kawasaki, early employee Daniel Kottke, DigiBarn computer museum co-founder Bruce Damer, Inside Steve's Brain author Leander Kahney. and an introduction by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

[Mr. Dee]

Please! I can see through this film already, its a clear suck up ode to Steve Jobs. Just the kinda thing he hates! Steve Jobs does not love cults and does not like people who buy Apple products because everybody else is doing so or because its a responsibility. A film like this is only asking to be a part of SJ's inner circle of friends, but its not gonna get you a thousand miles close to him. Its just because IDG run's MacWorld why he does have the authority to stop it crap like this.

[rhsc]

nevermind mac users, the person in that pic looks like a meth user

[Vegaman_Dan]

I hope people don't take offfense at parody and trash the film. It should be an entertaining flick and one I'll go see.

Just don't take it seriously if it pokes fun at Apple users. It's a film, nothing more. CSI also has nothing to do with criminal forensics. Just accept it as fiction and move on. :)

[victor_sf]

How come of all possible 80's computer cultures - Amiga, Atari, UNIX Workstation, PC, Mac, etc. - the two most weird survived? (I wanted to use a harsher word actually.) I don't like the PC, all right, but Mac? Huh... Whatever.

[victor_sf]

like one-button mouse and stuff
and the menu bar on top

how about 3 button mouse (unix)
virtual desktops (unix)
real-time video editing (amiga did it in the 80s)

[Penguinisto]

The UNIX workstation didn't die - it was reborn as Linux, which by all accounts is doing rather decently.

[victor_sf]

@penguinisto: to a certain degree I agree, but not entirely. Actually nowadays, Linux is really a competitor to UNIX in the server market, not really a desktop system. But maybe I should correct myself. At the time, UNIX workstations weren't really desktop machines either. Take the Apollo. It was totally cool, but as far I recollect, the only way to get word processing on it, was thru WABI emulation. But _they could have evolved_. Instead, what happended is that the PC evolved into workstation, and now I do all my PRO/Engineer work on a relatively low-end off the shelf machine.