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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MacWeek (was "MacWeek Address")
Message-ID: <6976@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 10:00:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 10:00:57 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 2-Sep-87 01:44:24 EDT
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Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <1094@runx.ips.oz>, clubmac@runx.ips.oz (Macintosh Users Group) writes:
> I thought MacWEEK was a monthly journal on diskette? For 300 bucks a year,
> it must offer more...
> 
> What does MacWEEK offer for $300/year exactly?
> Is it worth the money?
>
> Jason Haines, President
> Club Mac Macintosh Users Group, Sydney, Australia

MacWEEK was a journal on diskette, a not very serious weekly Macintosh "Talk
Show" which became MacTALK when MacWEEK came out.

MacWEEK is trying to PC WEEK for the Macintosh.  It bills itself as "The
Workstation Newsweekly", although it says very little about anything other
than the Macintosh.  It's style reminds me highly of USA Today.

The first issues of MacWEEK were abominable.  As of late, they seem to have
settled down and started trying to give a bit more substance to their articles.
It's still a very thin magazine, though (last week's issue was 28 pages) and
it generally gives you some interesting views of things being done with the
Macintosh (past articles have shown software for the Macintosh in the Laboratory,
at NASA, at various engineering firms, etc.).

Another contender to look at, which I've just skimmed, is "Macintosh Today."
I signed up for the free subscription at MacWorld (I just love getting mail)
and looked through it.  They claim to offer more "hard-hitting reviews" than
MacWEEK.  It will come out bi-weekly until January, then it will come out on
a weekly basis.  I don't know what their monthly rate is.

I wouldn't pay $300/year for MacWEEK, if I was just a personal computer user.
But if I were responsible for the purchasing of Macintosh software/hardware
and general support, I'd probably have the person I was working for get it for
me.
--
"No victim,                              Peter Merchant (merchant@dartvax.UUCP)
 No crime."