Tech> Thoughts> Macworld's quality issues

I'm starting to get mightly unimpressed with Macworld (the magazine). They've gone slightly down in the quality of their coverage trying to capitalize on the Apple-hype-cool-bubble instead and mostly feature new iPod accessories. I skimmed the new issue in 4 minutes and caught the following two things. I'll read it in more detail in the future and put in writing if they surprise me positively.

1) Usage of Excel default chart colors for reporting poll results (page 27). If you've ever used Excel and have eyes that can tell colors apart, you know they are ugly. Mac users have more than enough reasons and opportunities to break free from the chains imposed on computer users' creativity by Microsoft Office products.

2) "Hot video products" (page 80) highlights Sony's DCR-SR90E, a hard drive camcorder. "Tape is so old", they say and recommend this Sony for use with a Mac - but it only comes with a USB support and they even mention it "to transfer everything to your Mac without any digitization necessary". Well, yeah, but a whole lot of manual work and wasted space if you're planning to edit anything short from a long footage. Final Cut Express doesn't even support USB, and even if you only use iMovie, you are giving away the camera control mode and have to import footage manually. Firewire is of course the cord of choice for video editing in the Mac environment. They even feature Final Cut Studio on the same page. Sad.