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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: What to read (Was: Re: Status of MACazine?)
Keywords: MACazine
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Date: 14 Feb 89 17:11:02 GMT
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>>I read in this newsgroup that MACazine was
>>going out of business and would cease publication this spring

>You heard right.

Yup. Which brings up the question: What do intelligent Macintosh people read
these days? Macintosh Horizons is dead (may it rest in peace). MACazine is
dead. So is, if you haven't heard, Macintosh Business Review (a collective
"I never even *HEARD* of that magazine" gasped from the crowd....). 

For the person who wants more than the gloss of a MacUser or a MacWorld,
where do you go?

Damn good question. 

It's hard to find a good, user (as opposed to business/advertiser oriented)
Mac magazine. If you qualify for a free subscription, there's MacWeek.
There's one of the Big Two [take your choice MacWorld or MacUser. I chose
MacWorld as the lesser of two evils]. For hacker-types, there's MacTutor.

Then what? 

Let me make a couple of suggestions. 

For hacker-types, take a look at MacTech Quarterly. This is from the folks
who used to run APDA and publish Macintosh Horizons. It isn't, strictly
speaking, a competitor of MacTutor. There's only been one issue so far, so
there are still a lot of questions about it (including: will the co-op board
do to it what it did to Horizons?), but the first issue was pretty
reasonable. Good information to chew on.

And for the rest of us, grab a copy of MacGuide. This has been a quarterly
catalog/review thingie, but they've just announced that they're going
monthly and they seem to be (more or less) aiming at the kind of magazine
that MacWeek was. The final quarterly issue looked really interesting, so
it'll be interesting to see what they do when they go monthly. By the way,
this is where Steve Bobker ended up when he left MacUser. This might be a
plus or minus to you.

chuq

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