chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (02/15/89)
>>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 Chuq Von Rospach -*- Editor,OtherRealms -*- Member SFWA chuq@apple.com -*- CI$: 73317,635 -*- Delphi: CHUQ -*- Applelink: CHUQ [This is myself speaking. No company can control my thoughts.] Signature quotes? We don't need no stinkin' signature quotes!
twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman) (02/16/89)
What do you mean MBR is dead, it was bearly born!!! They were at MacWorld trying to drum up business! Sigh, I do not consider MacUser nor MacWorld worth thumbing through. MacHorizens & Macazine were the last Mac Mags that I read :*( I just assumed that I would just spend more time with the Macs unstead of reading. But as you say, MacTech quarterly looks quite interesting. It will be interesting to see if they can keep it up. Oh well, back to my new copy of the Dairy Goat journal. TeriAnn
levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) (02/17/89)
In article <430078@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman) writes: |What do you mean MBR is dead, it was bearly born!!! They were at MacWorld I just returned a subscription qualification card for Mac Business Review. I guess I'll find out soon . . . :-) = UUCP: {backbone}!bbn!levin POTS: (617) 873-3463 INTERNET: levin@bbn.com
chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (02/18/89)
>What do you mean MBR is dead, it was bearly born!!!
Yup. It was announced in the last couple of weeks. They're owned by a Dutch
comglomerate that's decided to pull out of the U.S. market. Aren't you glad
you aren't in the publishing industry?
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Signature quotes? We don't need no stinkin' signature quotes!phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott R. Anderson) (02/27/89)
In article <25809@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >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. Let me just point out that it isn't necessary to qualify for a free subscription in order to get MacWeek. It is available by subscription for $75 a year, which may seem like a lot compared to Mac{World,User}, but just remember that it comes out four times as often and it is much more timely. It has many good reviews and it is very useful for keeping up on what Apple and the software developers are coming up with. * * ** Scott Robert Anderson gatech!emoryu1!phssra * * * ** phssra@unix.cc.emory.edu phssra@emoryu1.bitnet * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
fleabag@athena.mit.edu (Jeff Bellsey) (02/28/89)
In article <25809@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >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. just, offhand, how does one qualify for a free subscription to MacWEEK? It's great, but I can't find it anywhere. :bags fleabag@athena.mit.edu