PC Magazine

Everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, John C. Dvorak, has an article on PC Magazine (I almost used website, which would be stupid and redundant, since there is no paper magazine anymore!) giving his final pre-release views about Microsoft’s latest baby.
In the beginning of the article, he states that it has been four years since he received anything [...]

Sometimes when you see something new, you know you might need to give it a while, an re-evaluate your feelings after a certain time spent. Other times, you know immediately that you like something, and no amount of reconsiderations will change your first opinion.
PC World Australia is one of those sites. When [...]

After a few days of seemingly coming to his senses, a popular ZDNet writer is back to praising Windows 7 yet again. I find this very disturbing, as I think you just can’t have it both ways. Either something is good, bad, or mediocre. You don’t get to choose any two of the above.
This is [...]

It’s amazing how many people like the same things, yet you might otherwise not know it. I was reading an article by Paul Murphy, from ZDNet, and see that he thinks that NCIS is a great program. I do also, but I have never analyzed why. I like Mark Harmon, but I don’t really identify [...]

I began thinking about this while reading the observations of one article at a site that I frequently visit. The writer had come to the conclusion that there really was no need for anyone to use AMD processors these days, as Intel, according to him, had wrested each and every segment of the performance marketplace [...]

John C. Dvorak is one of those writers who is better at representing what I am feeling about something technical almost better than I can. With the long career he has had, he truly has seen it all. He is very quick to articulate the problems, and when it happens, the high points, of new [...]

over at PC Magazine. It must be that, because the top of the page has tips for switching to Mac on one side, and a story from John Dvorak about the time coming to download Ubuntu.
Now I have seen Dvorak, in print, long enough to know he has never been in on the hit-you-in-the-face Microsoft [...]

Just when I was about ready to write off John C. Dvorak’s contributions to PC Magazine, he lets loose with a smoker about the Editor-in Chief’s column.
Never mind that I happen to agree, it is about diverse opinions, and seeing both sides. Lance Ulanoff may be the PC Mag editor I agree least with ever [...]

Less than a month ago, a post on ZDNet was found exhorting us to follow ten people who were deemed ‘worth following’ on Twitter, the last stronghold of the insipid and incoherent. This morning I see that someone else is all “twittipated” about the less than universal use of the ’service’.
Twitter isn’t just about finding [...]

For those too young or uninterested, Windows is now into its 26th year of existence. As operating systems go, it’s very long in the tooth. Perhaps John C. Dvorak, who has, incidentally, been writing about Windows for all of those years, puts it best, “It’s time for something new, and different”.
As I have said here, [...]

I’ll be the first to admit that Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is a big improvement on its predecessors. Although my reasons would be different than most, I am sure that lots of people will eventually have cause to celebrate.
On the other hand, I find it disturbing that this PC Magazine article, has appeared, with the [...]

Also, for those afraid of, or not inclined to, building their own, PC Magazine has a couple of good choices.
Lots of people have gaming on the brain, but not much green in the wallet. For these people something other than the latest mega-dollar AlienWare or Dell XPS will have to do. The choices given in [...]

After reading a very well written, and informative, article on PC Magazine, I have decided that the time is right to make the switch to 64 bits at a time. The above story gives a very good picture of what is to be expected, as long as one sticks to the Windows family of operating [...]

Last week, an article came out on ZDNet, with the title ‘Why Windows 7 Won’t Suck As Much As Vista’.
Wow. That says it all.
Microsoft has shot itself in the foot, and didn’t have the good sense to see the doctor, trying to walk with a badly bleeding foot (Vista). If the company had [...]

ExtremeTech put up an article which shows a PC built by their brethren at PC Magazine. It is a very inexpensive PC, built for the price point of $350, including a copy of Vista Basic.
Is this sort of article doing anyone any favors?
I’m inclined to say no, for a few reasons. The very first [...]