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From: heath@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Todd Heatherton)
Date: Tue, 18-Oct-88 23:16:57 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Oct18.231657.17114@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWorld vs. MacUser vs. Macazine vs. ??
References: <8810171949.AA26244@decwrl.dec.com> <15613@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: heath@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Todd Heatherton)

In article <15613@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
>In article <8810171949.AA26244@decwrl.dec.com> long@mcntsh.dec.com (I'm not an engineer, but I play one on TV!) writes:
>#>
>#>I currently subscribe to MacWorld, and am considering dropping it, as I feel
>#>the ratio of advertising to content is too high.  I've read a couple of issues
>#>apiece of MacUser and Macazine, and they seem to be better (Macazine better
>#>than MacUser).  Anyone like to comment on their favorite, and why?
>#>
>#>Thanks - Rich
>
>Just a comment. When I'm buying hardware or software, I look for
>the publications with the most ads so I can get the best price.
>So advertising isn't always a drawback. For better or worse,
>the advertisers go to the pubs people seem to read the most.
>The ads are also a way to track new products and send for
>information. (I should point out, though, that on the job I'm only
>allowed to buy Apple Products from Apple through the university
>even if I can get a cheaper price elsewhere.)
>
>Don't read this as an endorsement of MacWorld,
>though. My boss gets it so I read it. I've never seen Macazine.
>Could you post their address so I can send for a sample. Thanks.
>
>Steve Goldfield


I would just like to add that I'm killing my subscription to MacUser. 
Does everybody else get tired of the same review section each menth and 
the self-serving editorial bias?  I know I can't take another issue.