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Content
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| Quality : |
18.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
15.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
10.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
64.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
9.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
5.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
18.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
8.0 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria New
New Update!
As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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1. Lots of exclusive content.
2. High quality photos.
3. Hot babes.
4. Great price break for you!
1. Over-airbrushing can be a problem.
2. May be too soft for some (though harder bonus content is avail).
"Mac and Bumble offers some very hot chicks in some very hot photography." |
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I'm going to try to refrain myself from making fun of the title of the site here, as I'm sure the other reviewers came up with a few zingers of their own. I will say that you're greeted with three really hot chicks on their homepage, all of which have very, very large boobs. Maybe Mac and Boobs would have been a better name for these three ladies at least? Damn, and I told myself I wouldn't throw in any website title jokes. Shows how much self control I have...
Checking into the member's area, I see the date and time is located right at the top. Good to know I guess? Browsing to the calendar, it looks like updates come every day except Mondays (just another reason not to like Mondays), as well as a random extra day or so a week that they add a news column, auction, or something similar besides hot chicks. After that I went straight to the models index. This would be great if I knew who half these chicks were, but unfortunately I'm not up on any of the big model's or pornstar's names much. I wish they had an option for "view all thumbnails" or something similar. Once you click on a category (such as Bumble Girls, Centerfolds, Pinups, blondes, Women of the World, etc), you are presented with a face pic of each girl so you can find one you like rather than clicking around blindly. The other thing that bothered me here was that I wasn't sure what the difference was between a Centerfold and a Pinup (that's just an example, I didn't really know what a lot of them meant).
Checking out the photos, most all of the girls they shoot are very good looking. This isn't the amateur, girl-next-door type site for sure. A lot of these girls have been published elsewhere (Aria, Sydney Moon, a few Vivid girls), so basically they're going for the hottest chicks they can get their hands on. Picture quality is also very high. They didn't mention what kind of equipment they use, but it appears to be all digital and shot by someone who knows what they're doing. They offer two image sizes (512x780 and 700x1067) which seems good enough. I wouldn't mind seeing both sizes upsized sometime in the future a little bit. A little annoyance with the thumbnails, in trying to make the site very uniform, all of their thumbs are vertical in orientation. The problem comes in when they have a horizontal photo, it simply squeezes the thumb into a weird size. For trying to make the site look better, I think it looks a little worse with the warped thumbs.
Ok, onto the actual photos for real here. Bottom line, they look very nice! My only gripe is that the airbrushing of the photos can get a bit out of hand sometimes. I know they're obviously not going for the amateur look just by the girls they choose to photograph, but I usually prefer the photos not to be terribly altered. When they start to look like rubber dolls or something, that's when it gets out of hand for me. I'd say about 1/3 (or maybe a little more) of the photos are over-airbrushed to me. Sometimes even the nipple got a little blurry (whoops!). Other than that, the image quality is very good with a lot of magazine-style layouts (quite a good variety).
The video quality isn't as good; it's not horrible by any means, but its not up to the clarity that the photos have. Ya gotta scroll all the way to the bottom of the model's page to see if she has video clips (and watch out because I think sometimes depending on which link you click they disable the videos altogether, more specifically from the videos page if you click the model's name instead of the thumbnail you won't see any video options available). M&B offer up a variety of video types, but they don't usually have mulpiple options for a video. They range from Quicktime, to AVI's, to Windows Media, to MPGs... I kinda wish they'd stick with one format and leave it. The videos are of ok quality, but not 100% smooth and sharp unfortunately. They have a feel to them that is reminiscent of the videos a few of the popular magazines put out. Not a lot happens except some stripping and stuff with some music in the background. The videos aren't their main focus obviously.
Overall I definitely like the site. They have plenty of eye candy to check out, and the photo quality is up there with the best of them. The price is a little high, even though they update almost every day, I'm still not sure it's totally worth the $30 a month (don't pay attention to their $9.95/mo speech unless you wanna prepay for a year). Turn the airbrushing down a bit and I'd like the pics even more. On a side note, they did take quite a few polls of their members asking which photo they liked better (it was the same photo, one was airbrushed and the other was not) and most every time they definitely preferred the airbrushed photo. But you have to take into account that this was a poll of members of Mac and Bumble who obviously like the look already. But at least they are trying to keep up with member's needs. So go check it out, you'll get a feeling straight away in their tour if it's something you're into or not. It's good enough for me :)
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 04-20-04 |
Bigger and better is a great mantra to have I would think, and that's the best way to describe Mac and Bumble! The site has a whole new look to it which is very polished (although it looked pretty good before, too). Also, while not only continuing to grow their photo sections, the video section is much better looking now too!
They still have a ton of different movie formats, which is a bit annoying, but one of the WMV I checked out was 640x480 and 2000kbps! The clip obviously looked really good, and if they keep stuff like that up (with how many more videos there are now), it'll definitely help the site big time.
While the site looks really good and has grown a lot, I think my score is right where it should be. So for now, no changes to that, but I still think it's a great site to check out for softcore model-type content.
Score remains at 90.8.
| 2nd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 01-30-06 |
Wow, it's been quite a while since we've taken a look at Mac and Bumble, but things look pretty good around here! While the site looks and feels quite similar, there's actually been a whole redesign that went on, and it looks great. They've added a ton of functionality to the site, and there's gotta be like 10 different ways to browse through the models now which is definitely cool. The content is as good as ever as well, and they're updating several times each day which keeps the site growing like crazy as well. There are a few small gripes I have, such as only one picture size, and a lot of the more recent videos coming in Quicktime format only; however, all in all this is still a great site for the softcore fans out there, and the changes and growth definitely show that both Mac and Bumble are here to stay for quite a while.
BIG UPDATE! They've lowered the price for you guys to just $20 a month instead of the usual $30 monthly fee which is definitely big news. With all they offer, if you're at all into this type of content you owe it to yourself to check it out at this price ASAP.
Score increased from 90.8 to 91.5.
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