The desktop Christmas '93. (inexpensive, enjoyable software and accessories) (The Desktop Critic)(Column) (Buyers Guide)

Macworld, December, 1993 by Pogue, David

Cheap and cheery things to put under the Apple tree

Hey, What is with everybody lately? You can't pick up a newspaper without reading about the gloom and doom at Apple Computer. Columnists are ranting about the Death of the Macintosh. Apple's stock price keeps having system crashes. I haven't heard such paranoiac hysteria since the original Macintosh model--remember that one? the toy? the one that would never last?--hit the streets.

Anyway, I'm certainly sympathetic to those affected by the Great Mac Depression of '93: to those laid-off Apple employees, to the columnists who write about them, and to the Mac fans everywhere who're alarmed by all the alarmism. Thus, in an effort to inject a little cheer into this gloomy season, I offer my fourth annual...