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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Neil McIntosh

Attending the MacUser awards last

Attending the MacUser awards last night was entertaining, even if the awards themselves were just a little bizarre. It was worth it just to hear the famous voice-over artist from the lottery show and Cilla's Blind Date (I'm told) reading out the lists of nominations - things like the "Cinema 4D XL 7.0 from Maxon" which scooped 3-D software of the year. But I couldn't help think that the hardware of the year prize has been a little devalued since Apple stopped allowing the building of Mac clones - Apple was the only company nominated. They also won innovation of the year (Mac OSX) and technology of the year (the iDVD/Superdrive combo). Um, well done, chaps...

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