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From: edm@hpfcmdd.hp.com (Ed Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Quoting PC Magazine and much more(was Re: Comparing 486 to 386 Systems)
Message-ID: <84050022@hpfcmdd.hp.com>
Date: 11 Apr 91 17:28:42 GMT
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>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. 

Yes, this is true of anyone.  But PC Magazine has resources that can be
matched by few.  I've bought a number of hardware and software products
based on the recommendation of either PC Mag or InfoWorld; I've never been
disappointed.  It does make me feel better, though, to find laudatory
reviews of a product in two different publications.

>One big editor (hint, who writes the Inside Track) sometime earlier this year
>(? I don't read PC Mag anymore) claimed that someone TOLD him that MIT's X
>Windows can be only run on 486 class machines.  So he want on and said that
>he considered X just another passing fad!

Inside Track is the comic strip of PC Magazine.  I read it for laughs.
There is considerable variation in the usefulness of the different
columnists.  There is one other whose column I consider a waste of my time.
A third one is worth reading even if I don't care about his topic.