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I'm losing my faith in Tom's and Anandtech. Both have been degenerating for quite a while now. (Tom's more-so than Anandtech.) Their reviews lately mostly suck, half the time are just press releases anyways, and more and more they're just becoming some sort of internet culture vagabonds. I'm ok with review sites being mostly in-depth advertisements for manufacturers who send them free stuff, but this is going too far.
Ok. From now on every time I see an Asian girl wearing traditional style clothing I will start thinking about Intel's CPU roadmap. They have so much in common.
Tom's Top stories:
Hackers: A dumbed down wikipedia entry who's sole purpose is to show Angelina Jolie on the front page. Perhaps they are trying to make up for having missed the boat on Tomb Raider reviews, back in the day when Tom's was actually worth reading because they focused on hardware.
Game and Movie: God knows where we'd have to turn to if we couldn't get game or movie reviews.
Integrated graphics: Ok, so it's hardware, and from time to time a good comparison between integrated graphics options is understandable. This was neither good nor a comparison sadly. (And although Nvidia recently released a similar product with the GeForce 8200 mGPU, we have yet to receive a review sample.) *eagerly awaiting that article*
Intel going discreet graphics: Holy ****, a real story! (Even if it turns out whatever they're planning on sucks hardcore and has no business in discreet graphics, it's still a big story right now.)
Tablet PC: Didn't this thing exist 5 years ago and everyone hated it? Or was it the one 3 years ago that no one bought. What? It runs Vista? Well that changes everything!
Raid: At least 1 review makes the cut.
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This isn't in the tech forum because I am voting with my dollars and threads. And because it has as much to do with tech as these sites have to do with hardware... fleeting to none!
But seriously, any good computer hardware review sites out there?
Ok. From now on every time I see an Asian girl wearing traditional style clothing I will start thinking about Intel's CPU roadmap. They have so much in common.
Tom's Top stories:
Hackers: A dumbed down wikipedia entry who's sole purpose is to show Angelina Jolie on the front page. Perhaps they are trying to make up for having missed the boat on Tomb Raider reviews, back in the day when Tom's was actually worth reading because they focused on hardware.
Game and Movie: God knows where we'd have to turn to if we couldn't get game or movie reviews.
Integrated graphics: Ok, so it's hardware, and from time to time a good comparison between integrated graphics options is understandable. This was neither good nor a comparison sadly. (And although Nvidia recently released a similar product with the GeForce 8200 mGPU, we have yet to receive a review sample.) *eagerly awaiting that article*
Intel going discreet graphics: Holy ****, a real story! (Even if it turns out whatever they're planning on sucks hardcore and has no business in discreet graphics, it's still a big story right now.)
Tablet PC: Didn't this thing exist 5 years ago and everyone hated it? Or was it the one 3 years ago that no one bought. What? It runs Vista? Well that changes everything!
Raid: At least 1 review makes the cut.
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This isn't in the tech forum because I am voting with my dollars and threads. And because it has as much to do with tech as these sites have to do with hardware... fleeting to none!
But seriously, any good computer hardware review sites out there?
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