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Apple sweeps PCWorld satisfaction survey

by Steven Sande (Dec 7th, 2011)

Despite the occasional report of issues with new models, most Macs tend to be quite reliable. Most Mac users intuitively feel that they're getting a quality machine for their money, and now the PCWorld 2011 Reliability and Service Survey validates that feeling. Apple desktop computers (iMac, ...

Apple, ASUS top PC World satisfaction survey

by Mike Schramm (Nov 29th, 2010)

Apple has garnered yet another win in a customer satisfaction survey -- this time it's PC World conferring the honors onto Cupertino, as Apple has topped both the laptop and desktop categories for most reliable and well-supported computer products. PC World says that Apple also did well in its ...

iOS 4.2 to support MIDI

by Matt Tinsley (Nov 5th, 2010)

It's come to light that the upcoming release of iOS 4.2 (due in November) will support all-out MIDI. According to Mike Keller, writing for PC World, Core MIDI on iOS 4.2 should work just as Core MIDI does on Mac OS X, meaning that your iDevice running iOS 4.2 will communicate with other MIDI ...

Seven ways PC World is wrong about the iPhone-Android matchup

by Chris Rawson (May 22nd, 2010)

Android's new features in the upcoming version 2.2 (aka "Froyo," announced this week at Google I/O) are certainly intriguing, but some sections of the press have gone off the deep end in their analysis of what this means for the iPhone and the smartphone market in general. PC World's piece, "7 ...

PC World study: AT&T network has undergone "drastic makeover"

by Sang Tang (Feb 24th, 2010)

According to AT&T's commercials, they provide both "a better 3G experience" as well as "the nation's fastest 3G network." And, based on PC World's latest 3G wireless performance study, they've got more meat and potatoes (as if Luke Wilson wasn't enough) to back up their claims. The study, a ...

New Apple ad "Misprint" cites PC World on fastest Vista laptop

by Michael Rose (Dec 4th, 2007)

Back in early November, PC World magazine gave a wet, sloppy kiss to the MacBook Pro, noting that "[t]he fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year--or for that matter, ever--is a Mac." Apparently this rousing endorsement of a laptop so freakishly powerful, so undeniably force-of-nature ...

PC World pits Leopard against Vista

by Michael Rose (Nov 2nd, 2007)

The gang at PCWorld magazine have sincerely accepted the premise that a Mac is really truly a personal computer, and as such deserves coverage in their fine industry publication. With a full and enthusiastic Leopard review (cribbed from sister mag Macworld), side-by-side Leopard & Vista feature ...

Is Apple the new Microsoft?

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 8th, 2007)

So claimeth Mike Elgan of Computerworld in his article on PC World: "It's Official: Apple is the New Microsoft." Well, I'm certainly glad that is settled! On to the iPhone news... Wait a moment, on what grounds does Mike base his comparison? I'll break down the points and test their coherence. ...

PC World 100 Best of 2007 honors Parallels, Tiger

by Michael Rose (May 25th, 2007)

When a leading computer publication has a revolving-door editor-in-chief hiring policy, it can make other weird editorial decisions look sane and prudent by comparison. Exhibit A: the annual PC World "100 Best" feature, which presents the 100 best products of 2007... online in May, and in print for ...

McCracken returns as PC World editor in chief

by Mat Lu (May 10th, 2007)

Last week we mentioned the resignation of PC World editor in chief, Harry McCracken who seemed to have quit because PC World (and former Macworld) CEO Colin Crawford canned a story on "10 Things We Hate About Apple." In the brouhaha that followed the canned story finally came out (revealing not much ...

10 things that Sort of Mildly Displease PC World about Apple (and why PC World thinks Apple is Doing Well)

by Erica Sadun (May 7th, 2007)

In the beginning there was 'hate', or more specifically "10 Things We Hate About Apple". And PC World's Harry Mccracken resigned from his position when former Macworld CEO Colin Crawford supposedly put the kibosh on the article. Questions raged throughout the blogosphere as to whether Apple was ...

PC World editor quits over Apple story

by Mat Lu (May 3rd, 2007)

This story on Wired blog is interesting. About a month ago the former CEO of Macworld Magazine, Colin Crawford, took over sister magazine PC World and just recently put the kibosh on a story idea for the latter: "Ten Things We Hate about Apple." According to Wired's anonymous source: "It was ...

Apple leads PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time

by Mat Lu (Apr 2nd, 2007)

Everybody likes lists and rankings; there's just something that fascinates people about them, and they're always good for an argument or, as the case may be, selling magazines. Squarely in this latter camp is PC World's list of the Best 50 Tech Products of All Time, which editor Harry McCracken ...

YouTube history of Stevenotes

by Scott McNulty (Feb 2nd, 2007)

Harry McCracken, over at PC World, has gathered an incredible collection of YouTube videos chronicling Steve Jobs introducing things. All your favorite Stevenotes are there, and you can relive everything from the launch of NeXTStep 3 to the introduction of Airport. My favorite, though, is this ...

Toshiba builds 100GB iPod-sized Disk Drive

by Erica Sadun (Dec 5th, 2006)

PC World reports that Toshiba has developed a 1.8-inch 100GB hard drive, suitable for use in portable music devices. Adding a 25% jump over current storage, the new drive is sized perfectly to fit into iPods. Production should begin next month and the drive itself will be shown at the January ...