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- From: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Why do we read PC mags?
- Message-ID: <GERRY.93Jan8111215@onion.cmu.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 16:12:15 GMT
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- Reply-To: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
- Organization: Field Robotics Center, CMU
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- I recently resubscribed to PC Magazine, and after having received the
- January 26 issue, I must ask myself why. The columnists are total
- morons, the hardware reviews are wrong, self-contradictory and biased,
- and the ads are not as good or plentiful as the Computer Shopper.
-
- Seriously:
- Page 164: data for G2000 wrong... but page 193 its correct.
- Page 193: G2000 as Editors choice, but the review was mediocre and the
- chart nothing special. The stuff they picked on, e.g., 64 kB cache is
- a simple and cheap problem to fix.
- Page 232: Tangent has 4 dots for upgradability, but the review
- specifically says it has limited upgradability.
-
- Need I go on? As these people on drugs or just plain stupid?
- Needless to say, of course, that these "reviews" are written so far
- ahead of press time, that by the time htey come out, most companies
- have changed their product line.
-
- Also, how about this. The G2000 and the TriStar are basically
- identical machines. They have the same graphics card and the same
- mother board. So, why do they show different performance figures?
- Also, why do none of the reviews shows a WinMark benchmark for the ATI
- VLB of greater than 22 when it is advertised as 28 and people here
- have reported 29+?
-
- Sorry about the tirade. However, I know that there are at least a
- dozen readers of this bboard who could team up to produce a vastly
- superior journal.
-
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- Gerry Roston (gerry@cmu.edu) | It would be almost unbelievable, if history
- Field Robotics Center, | did not record the tragic fact, that men have
- Carnegie Mellon University | gone to war and cut each other's throats
- Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 | because they could not agree as to what was to
- (412) 268-3856 | become of them after their throats were cut...
- | For some reason, too deep to fathom, men
- The opinions expressed are mine | contend more furiously over the road to
- and do not reflect the official | heaven, which they cannot see, than over their
- position of CMU, FRC, RedZone, | visible walks on earth. Walter Stacey
- or any other organization. |
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