I know I've mentioned it here before, but I have to talk about it again after reading the latest issue. For the price, CPU Magazine can't be beat.
For a short spell in my early college days I was a big fan of the Maximum PC magazine. They had cool, edgy graphics, game reviews, funny articles here and there. It was everything that the PC magazines I read growing up weren't. Maybe that's why I was satisfied with what they were providing.
After the first five or so years of college, I started to notice that my interests weren't being addressed by the Maximum PC's anymore. I wasn't interested in which $500 video card could give an extra 30 fps in a first person shooter. It didn't even tickle my fancy when I read that I could overclock my Pentium 3 with liquid nitrogen to 7.8 GHz.
In the search for a new tech content provider, I found TechTV, which was the ONLY channel I watched for close to 6 months. However, after their management/ownership committed the worst sin in cable history, I was forced to go back to magazines. This is when I found CPU magazine.
It's not a complete frag-boy magazine, but has a little bit of video game coverage. It features dream hardware reviews and benchmarks, but doesn't solely talk about hardware I will never buy. In those respects it achieves a happy medium. However, in all the other areas, I think it excels.
It has a great assortment of contributing writers who write a column each month. This month's issue had the regular writers covering the creative commons license, the Xbox 360, instant messaging, and some kind of phone thing I haven't had a chance to read yet.
I'm tired, otherwise I would go grab the magazine and talk about some of the good stuff that's available there, but instead, you can just go to cpumag.com and look at what's inside the current issue.
On a related note, maximum PC is now $10!!!! I saw the price at wal-mart this weekend and nearly soiled myself. Not cool.
Posted by Jordan at June 7, 2005 9:46 PM | TrackBack