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ben@snrc.uow.edu.au (Benjamin Low) writes:
>I think that Choice does a fairly good job of covering technical areas,
>though they can't be expected to delve as deeply as you may like (eg.

	Its a matter of opinion, of course.  And some years ago I would have
agreed with you.  Choice was once the most eagerly awaited visitor to our
letter box.  We bought quite a few things after reading Choice's appraisals,
although we almost never bought what they recommended, because our
priorities were often different.  But recently I'm afraid they have really
lost the plot.  They seem to have been taken over by a bunch of mamby pamby
new age wimps.  I find their articles to be uninformed, verbose, patronizing
and disappointing.  I have several recent issues still in their wrappers.  I
opened one because it had an article on mobile phones.  I read the article,
since I'm in a technical field and I knew nothing about them.  I kept
thinking `this article is going to tell me what I need to know just after
the next paragraph or two of twaddle', and then I got to the end of the
article...

	I guess they lost it for me when they went from numbers to dots, and
sealed their fate when they stopped telling me how many dba per dot...

	I have enjoyed Choice in the past, and hope to in the future, but
currently... Sorry...

Keith