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Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) writes:
> mwojcik@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Michael Wojcik) writes:
> 
> MW> I wouldn't shell out the $99.00/year. It's just not worth 
> MW> it.
> 
> well, look at your alternatives:  Macworld and MacUser magazines.
> 
> Those rags have gotten so bad with advertising that I've let my  
subscriptions
> lapse.  I'll try to pick them up in the library to read Steven Levy and  
Andy
> Ihnatko, but otherwise I'll let them go.
> 
> Last week I picked up my car magazines.  Car and Driver doesn't see the
> absolute need to stuff 5 catalogs full of ads into every issue, and  
neither
> does Road & Track.  And yet, the car is every bit as entrenched into our
> society--nay, more so--than the computer.
> 
> No, at $99/year, I think MacWEEK deserves a look-see.  True, it's for  
only 42
> issues (compared to 50 or so for its sister PCWeek).  But it's as full  
of
> information, if not fuller than, the two main monthlies, and without the
> tremendous amount of crap advertising.  Plus, the advertising that's in  
there
> is much more timely.
> 
> Does anyone remember MACazine?  That was my favorite.  I picked up a  
very old
> issue, and came across a tip that I never knew or remembered.  Thanks,  
Bob. 
> It was a good time...
> 
> Aloha,
> --Adam--
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Adam,

I don't really find all the advertising in MacWorld and MacUser offensive.  
Advertising lets me know what new products are available.  It's those  
sorry *%& obsolete reviews that they keep passing off as information that  
really annoys me.  That MacUser directory of products that they sent out  
last month nearly sent me ballistic.  Some of those reviews were for  
programs that don't even run anymore. (Even under Sysem 6.0.7)