UK PC Gamer article

[Lonyo]

UK PC Gamer has a section called "Money Pit" and in it this month, they reviewed the Hercules Prophet 9000 PRO. They close the article off by saying they "recommend simply downloading the Detonators you'll find on www.nvidia.com/drivers"
I began to think "OMG, you fools".
Just an interesting thing I noticed 🙂

 

[Rand]

Could as easily be a simple type as their most likely accustomed to reviewing nVidia graphics cards, snetheless it's a rather blatent mistake to make in a published magazine.
It could easily pass on the web where one can quickly go back and fix the error at any time, but in print the editors have a tough job.

 

[Lonyo]

Yeah. The card is said to be a Radeon 9000 PRO 64MB, and the price is put as £180 (that's as much as you can get a 9500 pro for over here). The article is seriously screwed up.

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Yeah. The card is said to be a Radeon 9000 PRO 64MB, and the price is put as £180 (that's as much as you can get a 9500 pro for over here). The article is seriously screwed up.

Not screwed up. They just dont know where to look or are advertising a specifically selected vendor at one point in time. By the time the mag hits the shelves, it would be a week or 2 out of date.

 

[Lonyo]

I don't think they were ever £180. That's the price of low end Ti 4600's! No vendor is going to sell a 9000 for the price of a Ti 4600 (I would hope!)

 

[Davegod]

I have always looked at PC Gamer's money pit, and the PC Format equivalent, and wondered WTF they do their shopping & get their info. But you think thats bad, try reading Doors in the Sunday Times - with the exception of that guy with a rat on his shoulder, I can only assume they still use typewriters and that the closest they have come to computers is walking past Dixons.