PC Advisor Reviews

This long running magazine has gone in and out of favour with me at times. It can provide excellent tutorials and information some issues and not so much of interest for me at other times. That is my personal experience and opinion. However this magazine has a very good website associated with it which in my view makes up for things in terms of ...  Read the complete review

To think that only a few years ago, I was sinking rapidly into a technophobic state of mind. I was quite happy with my lot - a telly, BT landline, car, and the usual inexpensive trappings of most households - except a computer and mobile phone. "What," I asked, "would I need a mobile phone for, or a computer?" and usually had ...  Read the complete review

*** INTRODUCTION*** I “celebrated” my 40th birthday recently. I was very lucky and happened to receive a brand new, shiny PC as a present from my brother and my parents. Despite having a job as a systems/business analyst (managing a marketing database), I am remarkably uneducated about the inner workings of the humble ...  Read the complete review

PC Advisor is a magazine that claims to give 'expert advice in plain English'. This is yet another computer magazine on the market that gives away free software and helps advise about PCs. But is it as good as others on the market? COVER DISC There is only one cover disc on this magazine and yes it does have a lot of software on it, ...  Read the complete review

PC Advisor, its slogan - Expert advice in plain English, is pretty true to the magazine. Not only is it good if you want to keep up-to-date with all the latest gadgetry, but also if you are thinking of buying a peripheral for your computer. I was thinking of buying a new scanner last year, and they recommended the HP ScanJet 4300C for my type of ...  Read the complete review

This is not a magazine that would interest you if you didnt have a computer. It is for people that have had a bit of experience on a computer. First of all I thought £2.99 was expensive for a magazine which at first glance looks like it is full of advertisements. It comes out monthly. On glancing through it though I discovered ...  Read the complete review

PC magazines abound the shelves of bookshops and newsagents and PC Advisor is one that vies with the rest for our attention. It got my attention all right, not because of the bright red masthead with stark white writing or the price of £2.99 for issue 71 for August 2001 with a CD ROM but because I was in hospital and was bored. I reasoned that a ...  Read the complete review

First of all, to make it clear, PC Advisor is NOT a magazine for gamers. There are only about 3 game reviews a month and these are brief. Instead the magazine is all about as the title suggests, Advice. And in this area it delivers. There's so much advice in each months magazine that there is always something there you didn't ...  Read the complete review

PC Advisor is a magazine that I have been buying off-and-on since it came out. I now subscribe to it (£42 for 3 years, I think – it was a long time ago!). I was at first attracted by the promise of “real” software packages on the free CD-ROM every month (not trial versions with limited facilities or ...  Read the complete review

Here we go for another one of my ramblings about another computer magazine. Read on if you can bear it!….. PC Advisor is a good computer magazine in its own right and compares favourably to some of the other magazines, but it’s not strictly aimed at the homeuser market. I feel that PC Advisor is more for the business buyer ...  Read the complete review

PC Advisor is a very informative magazine if you already have basic PC knowledge. It is published by IDG Magazines and is one of the better magazines available for those who have some knowledge of PC`s and the mumbo jumbo language that goes with them. I especially like the best buy categories where you can find out which of the new eg laptops ...  Read the complete review

PC Advisor is the best magazine around, if you want to buy any computer related items. It has a listing of the top of the 10 items for all computers, printers, scanners, digital camera etc. One thing I personally like about this mag is that, it has a section for new gadgets. They are quite friendly as well, because they answer our ...  Read the complete review

PC Advisor is a monthly magazine published by IDG, which as its name suggests is designed to advice people about PCs. It is available with either a CD-ROM or a DVD on the cover, with the DVD version costing extra at £4.99. The contents section of the magazine always looks very promising and they do appear to have a lot of content although ...  Read the complete review

Back in October 1998, before I decide to trade in my Playstation for something a little more useful, I bought some magazines so that I could read up on PC's. PC Advisor was the magazine I bought for two months before I decide to spend £1000 on a computer. I based the computer on reviews that I had read in the magazine and even ...  Read the complete review

Be honest now! Is it not true that when you look on the shelf at PC mags you first look to see what is on offer with the free CD? Then you look closer at the content, but a deciding factor on which mag you buy does rest on the CD. Well at least it did with me and I got sick and fed up of paying for a mag to find the CD contained ...  Read the complete review

So there I was, trying to get connected to the internet. I had no ISP's so what do I do, I go out and buy PC Advisor thinking there will be at least one on the cover CD. It said there was Compuserve and Demon Internet on it, great! So imagine my dissapointment when to my suprise and a little disgust, there was nothing but twelve or ...  Read the complete review

I thought I should subscribe to a pc magazine, just to help me improve my computer knowledge. Pc Advisor was the first one I came across to order that I liked the look of. There is so much to read in this mag. And there is always help for those at all stages of proficiency. I like the help pages, of which there are many in each issue, and ...  Read the complete review

I have been getting it regular now for about 7 months, PC Advisor I mean, it is just a great magazine full of really hepful articles, reviews of the latest equiptment and games, a lot of shops to choose from, which are all competativley priced. For the price that I paid, I am delighted with the magazine, which comes with a free cover ...  Read the complete review

i bought a copy of pc advisor today, simply because it was the only pc mag on the shelf, to be honest if that happens again it will still be there when i leave the shop. IT can be summed up in one word crap, cover to cover it is a catalogue of pc products, listed by what the staff of the mag reckon are the top ten. I will make up my own ...  Read the complete review

I came to PC Advisor later than some magazines - and afain via a special offer. I have stuck with it so far. In a way it falls between two stools. It does have good advice pages but not quite as good as PC Answers. It does have good reviews bit maybe not as good as PC Pro. This however is not a bad thing if you want an all round magazine.It is ...  Read the complete review