I’m talking about relativity here. It may not be the best one in the world, but it may well be the best one (once) available in these parts.

Oh and I don’t mind the ladies. They’re fine. ain’t nothing like a fine girl operating heavy machinery (i.e. macbook pro)

They have what they call the “Tested by T3″,but c’mon they tested the gadget and provided a sentence or two of reviews. Their product comparison charts were simply pulled somewhere and feature products that most Filipinos wouldn’t buy. In T3’s book, the more expensive the product the quicker it get’s to the T3 Winner title. Vince Sales is crap and glorifies anything Apple.

Vince Sales should start reading MaximumPC.com and see how they make reviews instead of focusing on FHM type of reporting.

I respectfully disagree. Engadget, for example, refreshes its RSS almost twice every hour. This blog alone refreshes daily.

Now multiply that frequency to a month, and then four, and then you get the grim picture being painted here. It’s like covering the launch of the groundbreaking Intel Pentium II, this August.

2) The new T3 staff would then be out of place in any Tech events because manufacturers would surely need to be published ASAP after the launch.

3) Who would place advertisements in a three times a year magazine? The real reason why T3, Marie Claire and Seventeen Mags fold up is because SM decreased the budget for the 3 magazines to 240K annually from a whooppppping 9million pesos annually

4) Where will the four or five staff of the Magazine get the latest gadget and newest content? I am not undermining their abilities but I think not even one of the remaining staff is a true techie or has the connection to get the latest gadget or news.

5) An insider told me that Manila Bulletin is hiring all the displaced staff of T3. more on this as this develops.

I’ve been reading it since its first issue (I was in 2nd year High School when the first issue came out) and it would be a shame if it would cease to exist.

All the best with T3.

I thought that was weird. These things are increasingly hard to find (I look for them at gasoline convenience stores now). I mean, If they’re “gone”, they must’ve been sold, right?

So I buy the latest issue, and somehow doubled on the editorial page, asking “Are these the same people from last January?”. Typos everywhere. Bad reviews. Unintelligible comments. Poor feature choices. Tragic.

Some guy in the letters section of that issue was asking about a color tone problem with his macbook pro (confirmed by several side-by-sides), and T3 answered something with like “yeah, color tone preference is different for each person”, which to me was like telling the poor guy to stop whining, and live with a yellow screen…forget the 100++ grand tag on the thing. Irritating stuff, to be quite honest.

So I felt something was wrong, and since then have said goodbye to arguably the best gad-mag of the country. It will be missed.

We can all go ahead and wait for “YugaTimes Monthly” instead. God bless you Abe. (hint, hint)