Date: Thu, 8 Jan 98 02:12:52 -0900
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Two Columns in PC Magazine

Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares

This tidbit is from:

Bruce Toback

The January 20, 1998 issue of PC Magazine contains articles by two 
regular columnists that ought to be in every Macintosh evangelist's kit 
bag. The first, "The New IRQ Scandal" by Jim Seymour, decries the fact 
that most high-end PCs are not expandable, due to internal architecture 
limitations. As the introduction puts it, "We put up with a lot of stupid 
designed-in limitations in PCs, but the latest one is particularly 
infuriating." IRQs are an abstruse bit of computer engineering that 
should be hidden from users -- and are, on the Mac. Anyone reading 
Seymour's article, crammed full of PC-vernacular three-letter acronyms, 
arcane abbreviations and obscure technical terms, has to wonder what 
they're getting into when they buy or switch to PCs.

The second column, Bill Howard's "The Flashing 12 Syndrome," is a 
disgusted look at Windows ease-of-use. If you're getting the argument 
that "Windows '95 is as easy to use as a Mac," this article says 
otherwise, and with the force that only a committed PC user can muster. 
Many of the problems he describes simply don't exist on the Macintosh. 
For example, Howard objects to what's required to configure a printer in 
Windows, which he says is "something everyone does." But that's a task 
that doesn't exist on a Macintosh.

As of this writing, neither of the articles appears online. However, they 
may be available soon, since PC Magazine (at <http://www.pcmag.com>> 
archives the full text of the publication several weeks after the issue 
date.