PC Pro

PC Pro is unusual on the newsagents’ shelves as it is positively targeted at the IT professional (hence the title!). Most PC titles are aimed at the games player/hobbyist and so present a general overview of consumer products. PC Pro claim to provide a similar service to professionals, but how successful are they? The magazine has been published for around 7 years and I am currently a subscriber. I was formerly a network support engineer and system administrator so, although not all the articles are relevant to my current needs, I understand (most) of the topics discussed. The magazine ... more

I have been a regular subscriber of pc pro for about a year now, it is an informative magazine about the pc and Internet. The focus of this magazine is for the business user hence the PRO part. They have various sections about real world issues, a round up of users problems and much more. As the magazine caters for the business user most of the content is about workstations, servers and Microsoft which I find very dull after a while because I am not working in the I.T sector. I would say that it is a useful magazine for someone running his or her own business but I only read it to keep me up ... more

Go into Tesco virtually anytime of any day and loiter a little around the newspaper and magazine section - you'll have to stand a fair way back, however, in order to leave the necessary personal space between you and the horde of big, fat, hairy guys who gather round that little bottleneck scanning them big fat colourful objects of desire - no, it ain't the girlie mag, the new furtive perv's pleasure is the BIG THICK ONE, the computer mag. I'm as guilty as the next man and for some reason there's a certain shudder of anticipation as you see the new month's issues slide slickly into the racks ... more

I first started reading this magazine when I was bought the subscription as a Christmas present in 1999. The original opinion held before reading this magazine was that it was one of those magazines with masses of advertisements. This opinion was very true, but it does not reveal any thing about the content. Moreover the content of the magazine can be said to be of a very high standard. This magazine is definitely aimed at the PC user who either works in the field of IT or has a great understanding of the field. The normal structure of the magazine opens with information concerning the free ... more

about four years ago, i started getting heavily into computers and the associated software and hardware. at the time there were only a handful of magazines around, and most were biased towards the big players in the industry. most magazines praised the likes of intel, microsoft, 3dfx, etc. this made making decisions very much a buy and hope affair. but out from the crowd a saviour arose. pcpro magazine was honest, concise, best of all accurate. but unfortunatly, recently i have found that the magazine has become very much behind the times. the reviews and articles are still amongst the best in ... more