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Comments on: 'MacHeads' film to debut at MacWorld

Documentary focusing on the development of the Apple and Mac cultures was shot, in part, at MacWorld 2007.

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by Mr. Dee December 15, 2008 5:54 PM PST
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.
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by rhsc December 15, 2008 6:52 PM PST
nevermind mac users, the person in that pic looks like a meth user
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by Vegaman_Dan December 15, 2008 8:30 PM PST
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. :)
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by victor_sf December 15, 2008 11:59 PM PST
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.
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by victor_sf December 16, 2008 12:02 AM PST
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)
by Penguinisto December 16, 2008 6:40 AM PST
The UNIX workstation didn't die - it was reborn as Linux, which by all accounts is doing rather decently.
by victor_sf December 17, 2008 12:43 AM PST
@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.
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