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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
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Subject: Re: Quoting PC Magazine and much more(was Re: Comparing 486 to 386 Systems)
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.160207.17736@mccc.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 16:02:07 GMT
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In article <1991Apr9.213259.17287@leland.Stanford.EDU> fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes:
=I don't want to belittle or slight a well established, much read and popular 
=computing mag.  But I would like to point out one fact -> PC Mag's editors
=are humans beings too. => they would make mistakes just like the rest of 
=us.  Sure, they have big marketing clut, if they say yes, then a product 
=immediately becomes hot, and vice versa.  This has both good and bad side
=when someone relies on it soly for info.

Two things:

(1) The editor you wrote about offers opinions, not the results of testing.

(2)  When you use the results of their testing, read the "how we tested"
portion to make sure that they and you have the same goals.

Pete
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