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Oct 2 2008

30% off all Freeverse software until Oct 7th–HURRY!!

freeverse 20081002 203101 30% off all Freeverse software until Oct 7th HURRY!!Don’t say you were never told: from now until October 7th, Freeverse Software is offering a 30% discount on all the products in their online store! Not familiar with Freeverse Software? You probably are, but you just don’t realize it or maybe you think they only make games. Check out these titles:

  • Neon Tango

  • Commander: Europe at War
  • Heroes of Might and Magic V
  • Big Bang Brain Games
  • Sound Studio
  • Lineform
  • PulpMotion
  • Think
  • Periscope
  • Comic Life

To get the discount, be sure to enter in the coupon code MONTYMAIL when you check out. Don’t forget! And get a move on: the discounts only last until October 7th.

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Nov 8 2007

Machinist posts ”the final word” on the ”Macs are more expensive” debate

Farhad Manjoo at Machinist has posted this rather juicy piece of flamebait entitled “Once and for all, proof that Macs are cheaper than PCs” in which he (?) declares the Mac platform as the clear winner in the Mac vs PC war. Farhad contests the notion that Macs are the BMW of computers but asserts that they in fact the Ford of computers–the computer for the everyman. He says:

Even though you may pay a slight premium at the cash register for a Mac over a comparable Windows PC (a premium that gets slighter all the time), it will cost you less money — real, honest-to-goodness American dollars — to own that Mac than to own that PC.

This is not going to come as a surprise to the readers of MacMerc; we know. But, he’s not talking about the cost of IT time to rid your machine of viruses. He’s not claiming that Macs save you money on downtime. No, we’ve heard that all before but he’s got another angle–resale, baby! If you’ve ever tried to buy a Mac on eBay, you know; Macs keep more of their value for resale. And Mac users don’t often take their obsolete machines to the curb; they repurpose them, making them rarer and more valuable.

Check out Farhad’s article and see how much you saved by going Mac.

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Feb 3 2007

New MacMerc.com shirts poke a bit of fun at Microsoft

With the Vista launch behind us and a new era in the Mac OS X vs Microsoft Windows flame war ahead, it is only fitting that we provide appropriate attire to let our position be known on the pertinent issues. Last year we released the enormously popular “Apple Innovates, Microsoft Imitates T-Shirt” and this year we begin our assault with two new shirts.

378514058 4340361fc4 m New MacMerc.com shirts poke a bit of fun at MicrosoftFirst, we have what we simply call The “wow” T-Shirt. The Vista launch has left more than just Mac fanboys unimpressed and it has occurred to many people that most of the innovations in Vista are just rehashes of what Mac users have been enjoying in Mac OS X Tiger and even Panther for years. The only thing that has probably left you with a feeling of “wow” has been the lies and damned lies of Bill Gates saying that though Apple may have thought of these innovations first, Microsoft thought of thinking of them before that. You’ve seen it all before. And so, this t-shirt asks on your behalf, “Could I see the ‘wow’ again? I think I missed it.”

The “wow” T-Shirt is available in black in sizes Small, Medium, Large, XLarge, XXLarge and XXXLarge.

378514075 94c538195f m New MacMerc.com shirts poke a bit of fun at MicrosoftNext, for the Zune critic, we have a shirt that responds to the hyphenated campaign slogan for Microsoft’s media player: “wel-come to the social.” Few have had anything good to say about the Zune and with much of the earbud wearing population using Apple’s iPod and its iTunes Music Store there haven’t been a lot of people jumping ship to buy all their songs over again from Microsoft. Granted, DRM is to blame for song incompatibility, but the whole thing makes you feel anything but “wel-come.” So, to all of us iPod people, I offer the “Unwel-come at the social T-Shirt”

This shirt is available in “Zune Brown” in sizes Small, Medium, Large, XLarge, XXLarge and XXXLarge.

378514097 f2980848ab m New MacMerc.com shirts poke a bit of fun at Microsoft border=0 width="240" height="240" alt="New shirts in the MacMerc.com store" />Feel free to browse the MacMerc.com Store (http://macmerc.spreadshirt.com/) for other shirts, buttons and even shoes in a variety of sizes and snarky expressions. Also, be sure to check out or new Missing Image T-Shirt (“It’s just like everybody else’s missing image t-shirt, but more Safarified!!”)

(Selected shirt designs in XXXL are found on the back pages of the store. The “wow” shirt thumbnail shown here with type enlarged for clarity.)

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