Cover of the April 1997 issue of MacAddict
The mid 1990s were a pretty bad time for Apple. Their market share was dropping and for the most part their systems were not price or performance competitive with PCs of the time. In addition, they couldn't compete on price with the clones they were licensing. The PowerBooks were terrific but you had to sell a kidney to be able to afford one. For instance, the PowerBook 1400cs was $2500 and there were others that were much more expensive (see below).
MacAddict was a magazine for Mac enthusiasts and by the time this issue came out in February 1997, things were beginning to look up for Apple. They had just bought NeXT and Steve Jobs was back. A much better and more modern OS along with newer and better hardware designs were on the way. MacAddict was the predecessor to MacLife which was not nearly as good of a magazine, at least in my opinion.
The contents of this issue include:
Table of Contents for the April 1997 issue of MacAddict
Table of Contents for the April 1997 issue of MacAddict (continued)
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