I WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED to see that you named Iomega's Zip drive Hardware Product of the Year and Best New Personal Storage Product ("The Eleventh Annual Editors' Choice Awards," March '96, page 85).
SyQuest's EZ135 Drive would have been a much better choice in both categories. The EZ135 costs under $240, which is about 20 percent higher than the Zip drive. But for this small premium, it offers 35 percent more storage space. And it is just about twice as fast, making it a viable option even as online storage, something that would be fairly inconvenient with the Zip drive, due to its lack of speed. EZ and Zip cartridges cost the same, so in time, the advantage of the EZ is even clearer.
Gary Csorgo
raver@u.washington.edu
I MUST DISAGREE with your selection of Quicken Deluxe 6 CD-ROM for Macintosh as the Personal Organizer of the Year. It's an unstable piece of software -- freezes and crashes are common. CheckFree is only partially implemented. Intuit's online support is atrocious. Documentation for the CD-ROM version is available in electronic form, but a printed manual costs extra.
Finally, Quicken is the only program this year's version of MacInTax will accept imported tax data from. This isn't a software problem, but it annoys me that software I've used to export to MacInTax for years is now incompatible, which has to be from a conscious decision on Intuit's part.
If the product performed as advertised, I'd be happy. It doesn't.
