Checksum: 48494
Path: utzoo!utgpu!heath
From: heath@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Todd Heatherton)
Date: Wed, 26-Oct-88 23:15:53 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Oct26.231553.3261@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> <64828@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: heath@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Todd Heatherton)

In article <64828@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) 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
>
>I subscribe to all three, although I just started Macazine.  Someone posted
>a comparison of all three using (I believe) percent of the magazine devoted
>to articles versus advertisements. Macazine won.
>
>However, I don't understand all the complaints against the ads.  That's one
>of my major reasons for reading the magazines. Many people ask questions on
>the net about what's available and guess where the answers are?
>
>Who cares if one is thicker because of ads.  They all cost about the same.
>
>Shirley Kehr


You'll tire of McUser soon enough.  The same product reviews every month
and they've even lost Shapiro. I'm letting mu subsciption lapse