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Following the departure of founder and chief editor Anand Lal Shimpi in August, Anandtech.com is being acquired by Purch Media, the owners of Tom's Hardware Guide.Anandtech's announcement posted:Before his departure, Anand spent almost a year meeting with all of the big names in the publishing space, both traditional and new media players. The goal was to find AnandTech a home with a partner that had a sustainable business model (similar to AnandTech’s), but could add the investment and existing reach to allow the site to better realize its potential. That search led to a number of interesting potential partners; it was a refreshing experience to say the least knowing that there are groups in the world who really value good content. Ultimately that search brought AnandTech to Purch.
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This really sucks. Toms is nothing but a bad joke.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:00
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mAlfunkti0n posted:This really sucks. Toms is nothing but a bad joke.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:19
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Glad to see the movement towards clickbait garbage is universal.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:40
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gently caress this clickbait poo poo, lets make a webpage where you guys write some poo poo and I collect the paycheck.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:43
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You Am I posted:Yeah, Toms used to be good in the late 90s/early 2000s, but it is a shadow of its former self these days. Anandtech is still going on nicely after Anand's departure, but I can't see anything good coming out of this I still can't believe the two smartest people at Anandtech went to work for Apple of all companies.
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Dec 19, 2014 00:54
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I'm not that shocked to be honest. If you want to play with bleeding edge hardware then there aren't that many options and you might as well get in bed with the devil.
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Dec 19, 2014 01:33
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At least we still have The Verge.
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Dec 19, 2014 02:31
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Alereon posted:I will say that they seem to have toned down the most grossly unethical fake reviews since the Purch acquisition, but yeah they sure as hell aren't publishing content that has value for anyone. :dolla bills yall:
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Dec 19, 2014 04:44
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Alereon posted:I still can't believe the two smartest people at Anandtech went to work for Apple of all companies.
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Dec 19, 2014 06:05
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Kanter works for The Linley Group (publishers of Microprocessor Report, Networking Report, etc.) now, and he hasn't written a RWT article in more than 6 months. The Linley Group makes quite a lot of their money writing whitepapers and doing competetive analysis for tech companies. While he isn't working for a tech company directly, he's moved on to the real business world.
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Dec 19, 2014 08:00
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Failed Sega Accessory Ahoy!
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Professor Science posted:There's exactly one journalist with any serious technical competence left that doesn't work for a tech company (David Kanter at Real World Tech). It's not really surprising; the money (not to mention being the person that designs things instead of the one always writing about other people's work) is too good.
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Dec 19, 2014 11:12
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wwb posted:I'm not that shocked to be honest. If you want to play with bleeding edge hardware then there aren't that many options and you might as well get in bed with the devil. Not only that with the general stagnation of PC industry as a whole, the other thing if you want useful information to decide hardware purchases on, Techreport reviews provides it so much better than Anandtech. For example, when TR has been doing SSD real-world load times and GPU frame time analysis for years while AT does neither it makes them look frankly amateurish in comparison.
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Dec 19, 2014 11:34
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Palladium posted:Not only that with the general stagnation of PC industry as a whole, the other thing if you want useful information to decide hardware purchases on, Techreport reviews provides it so much better than Anandtech. For example, when TR has been doing SSD real-world load times and GPU frame time analysis for years while AT does neither it makes them look frankly amateurish in comparison.
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Dec 19, 2014 14:41
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This is unfortunate, but it doesn't surprise me. As I understand it, banner advertising is becoming less and less lucrative, and publishers that used to rely on it for the majority of their revenue (i.e., all of them) are struggling to find new income streams. A small but growing presence in the ad space is the kind of "editorial" or "native" advertising that Purch seems to specialize in, and I suspect that you'll see more and more of it in the future, because it allows companies to tell the stories they want to tell about themselves, and that's a huge deal in the ad world. Whether it's good for the reader is another matter. It's loving gross, but Anandtech is a monumental name in the tech site world, and it's a huge arrow in Purch's quiver to have that kind of clout behind whatever advertorial content they want to slap a veneer of legitimacy on. Anandtech seems to have tried a little of this approach themselves—see the "AMD Zone" that used to get top billing there—but I would expect a much, much more subtle approach in the future. Expect this to happen more and more unless somebody figures out a way to make money from tech news and reviews that isn't bound to advertising. It'd be interesting to see someone try an Andrew Sullivan-esque approach in tech media, but I don't know if any one site is big enough to make that work. TheJeffers fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Dec 19, 2014 |
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Dec 19, 2014 16:46
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TheJeffers posted:Expect this to happen more and more unless somebody figures out a way to make money from tech news and reviews that isn't bound to advertising.
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Dec 19, 2014 18:55
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A lot of hardware reviews have been migrating to Youtube, and are now devolving into unboxing videos. It's probably more lucrative than having 6 ads on your website.
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Dec 19, 2014 19:52
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Alereon posted:I still can't believe the two smartest people at Anandtech went to work for Apple of all companies.
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Dec 19, 2014 21:39
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Misogynist posted:Thousand-dollar Gartner reports. I got on my hands on one before and nearly spent what seemed a few minutes into an hour. Good stuff. Does anyone have access?
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Dec 23, 2014 04:53
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It definitely piqued my interest seeing that news pop up although I'm not too surprised. I used to write for a family of consumer sites that was bought out with a huge user base by a publisher similar to Purch, then then got ads barfed all about in the name of profit with little regard to editorial content. The traditional model doesn't work well these days and consumer content in general is getting hard to make a profit over. Notebooks have improved, desktops have declined, few hard drive vendors out there exist anymore, most flash products are tolerable compared to the early days and above all else most ~1k consumer hardware comes with fantastic gear inside of it. The market for consumer upgrades to ultra-thin notebooks for example evaporated when companies like Apple started offering fantastic flash options and then moved up to PCIe-native. In short consumer commodity gear has hit a level where a ton of people just buy good gear that works and replace it when it wears out with the newest stuff. On the banner ads losing value argument, it really comes down to the terrible rabbit-hole many sites got themselves into trouble with. Build good readerships, sell expensive ads make good money. Realize you can split reviews into 20 parts for additional page views and for a while make even more money. Watch CPM rates plummet and your ad sale prices tank as you over-flow your site with ads as you reach an equilibrium again, although now the damage is done. You can't revert back to less ads or fewer pages without absorbing a huge mid-term loss. So many sites got caught in that trap. Personally I'm still on the "one page reviews, try to pry it from my cold dead hand" attitude that no site seems compete with us on anymore. Its sad that in the consumer and enterprise review space I can't think of anyone that follows our trend outside of a white paper that technically comes in a single PDF form 
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Dec 23, 2014 06:09
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Thankfully I've moved on from needing to know the stuff Anandtech and Tom's provided, having not hand built a system professionally or personally in years. But back when I cared about which video card was fastest those guys were there for me. I think if it even came up now I'd probably ask in a thread somewhere here rather than wade through ads/articles of questionable bias.
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Dec 26, 2014 21:34
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cowofwar posted:Seriously? Apple does a huge amount of cutting edge hardware design. They push the envelopes in a lot of areas and have their hands in many pies. I'm curious as to what, it seems their most successful products are just copies of other things that have been released but made more user friendly/better quality, but I don't follow things too closely they could be developing all sorts of poo poo I'm just not seeing.
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Dec 28, 2014 22:46
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socialsecurity posted:I'm curious as to what, it seems their most successful products are just copies of other things that have been released but made more user friendly/better quality, but I don't follow things too closely they could be developing all sorts of poo poo I'm just not seeing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeC25BM9E0 They never have and never will
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Dec 28, 2014 22:59
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if you go with that logic no one has ever invented anything anything ever created was just an idea spawned from existing creations not to mention many things "invented" are created in multiple places simultaneously
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Dec 28, 2014 23:01
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MeruFM posted:if you go with that logic Then what cutting edge hardware stuff have they designed I'm not trolling here I just would like to actually know, googling this just goes nowhere.
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Dec 28, 2014 23:22
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socialsecurity posted:Then what cutting edge hardware stuff have they designed I'm not trolling here I just would like to actually know, googling this just goes nowhere.
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Dec 28, 2014 23:36
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socialsecurity posted:Then what cutting edge hardware stuff have they designed I'm not trolling here I just would like to actually know, googling this just goes nowhere. The original iPhone was so revolutionary that RIM execs literally thought it was a trick.
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Professor Science posted:last few iphones and ipads have had custom processors designed in-house, for one. The A-series is nice and all but it isn't "cutting edge hardware design", it's only real advantage vs the Tegra and Atom seem to be some battery life. Even then they didn't design the manufacturing process or anything they used the Samsung HKMG process, not to say they aren't using it well or they didn't make something good but I often hear about Apple is designing all this amazing cutting edge tech and I would really like to get to the bottom of it. To not derail this too much here's Anandtech talking about the A5 http://www.anandtech.com/show/5742/apples-ipad-24-also-uses-32nm-a5-s5l8942-soc
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socialsecurity posted:The A-series is nice and all but it isn't "cutting edge hardware design", it's only real advantage vs the Tegra and Atom seem to be some battery life. Even then they didn't design the manufacturing process or anything they used the Samsung HKMG process, not to say they aren't using it well or they didn't make something good but I often hear about Apple is designing all this amazing cutting edge tech and I would really like to get to the bottom of it. To not derail this too much here's Anandtech talking about the A5 http://www.anandtech.com/show/5742/apples-ipad-24-also-uses-32nm-a5-s5l8942-soc They are the only company to make a trackpad on a laptop that isn't hot garbage.
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e: this was a monster derail that didn't need to happen.
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Dec 29, 2014 00:41
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CitizenKain posted:They are the only company to make a trackpad on a laptop that isn't hot garbage. The macbook trackpad is far less sensitive than any PC laptop trackpad. I think it sucks actually.
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Dec 29, 2014 10:01
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Captain Pike posted:The macbook trackpad is far less sensitive than any PC laptop trackpad. I think it sucks actually. Ha! It's the only one of a size that makes trackpads actually useable imo. I prefer thinkpad trackpoints, but even those have been ruined now. cowofwar posted:Seriously? Apple does a huge amount of cutting edge hardware design. They push the envelopes in a lot of areas and have their hands in many pies. Specifically the cameras in their phones are clear leaders in the market, despite the fact that they don't make the sensors. Its a mix of balanced component selection, good image processing and QA that makes the difference. Brian Klug is all about this, that's the appeal for him. If you read recent Anandtech reviews of apple products, they're all rather glowing, specifically in the area of battery life, GPU, camera etc. Professor Science posted:There's exactly one journalist with any serious technical competence left that doesn't work for a tech company (David Kanter at Real World Tech). It's not really surprising; the money (not to mention being the person that designs things instead of the one always writing about other people's work) is too good. Hey, Jon Stokes at Ars is great with CPU stuff last I checked.
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wooger posted:Ha! It's the only one of a size that makes trackpads actually useable imo. I prefer thinkpad trackpoints, but even those have been ruined now. It got bad enough for lenovo to unfuck the trackpoint on all the new thinkpads. Now there's a big touchpad with buttons for the trackpoint master race above it, the way it should have been in the first place  Or you could get a Latitude 6000/7000 series. wooger posted:Hey, Jon Stokes at Ars is great with CPU stuff last I checked. ...but ars is full of stupid buttcoiners as well. suck my woke dick fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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Dec 29, 2014 19:59
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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wooger posted:Hey, Jon Stokes at Ars is great with CPU stuff last I checked.
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Captain Pike posted:The macbook trackpad is far less sensitive than any PC laptop trackpad. I think it sucks actually. The trackpad is fine, you're probably just complaining about the OS X acceleration curve which is valid but can be "fixed" in software if you so desire.
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Dec 30, 2014 04:17
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Naw the mac trackpad has problems, it often fucks up the multi finger gestures and does bizarre poo poo like decide your 10 degree off from north two finger vertical swipe is actually a horizontal swipe, for example. I've spent like five years trying to figure out if it's hardware or software and trying to fix it across many machines without much success but something is definitely broken there, especially when more then one finger drops. At least macs made PC trackpads useable, so that's nice.
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~Coxy posted:The trackpad is fine, you're probably just complaining about the OS X acceleration curve which is valid but can be "fixed" in software if you so desire. This has nothing to do with speed or acceleration. I have to move my finger a fairly large distance before any input is recognized. Apparently, input is discarded unless X distance is covered. Probably for 'palm check' reasons. Most laptops have a Synaptics touchpad sensitivity slider. Macs do not. (I do appreciate your reply though. I have tried various settings in OSX, and I have searched Google for third-party software or kexts. None seem to exist.)
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more like dICK posted:The original iPhone was so revolutionary that RIM execs literally thought it was a trick. This is because RIM execs are morons who weren't even making high end phones of any sort for years by the point the iPhone came out. That particular anecdote means little other than they've been out of touch for honestly like a decade by now. I will also remind you that the original iPhone didn't even handle 3G on launch, let alone run anything besides built in applications. Which further reinforces how dumb RIM was, really.
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Captain Pike posted:This has nothing to do with speed or acceleration. I have to move my finger a fairly large distance before any input is recognized. Apparently, input is discarded unless X distance is covered. Probably for 'palm check' reasons. Most laptops have a Synaptics touchpad sensitivity slider. Macs do not. (I do appreciate your reply though. I have tried various settings in OSX, and I have searched Google for third-party software or kexts. None seem to exist.) Maybe you have a weird fingertip or oily fingers or something? Or you need the trackpad replaced? I mean I can barely just barely touch my MBPr trackpad and it gets picked up, and I use the factory settings except I turn on tap to click and reverse scrolling.
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socialsecurity posted:Then what cutting edge hardware stuff have they designed I'm not trolling here I just would like to actually know, googling this just goes nowhere. Currently 5k monitor thunderbolt trackpads, like people said laptop hinges that aren't poo poo finger scanner with an acceptable success rate (98%+) Previously 64 bit mobile high resolution laptop screen high resolution phone screen IPS screens in general
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