<story><title>The Mac Pro Review</title><url>http://anandtech.com/show/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yapcguy</author><text>I like Anandtech but they have come into criticism recently, from some of their long-time readers, for fawning over Apple products.</text></item><item><author>leephillips</author><text>AnandTech is often the only place that measures and reports anything about the screens of computers, tablets, and phones aside from how many pixels they have (color space, color accuracy, etc.). For this alone they are gold.</text></item><item><author>M4v3R</author><text>AnandTech hardware and Ars Technica&amp;#x27;s software (especially OS X) reviews are works of art by themselves. The level of details that goes into these pieces is nothing short of amazing. They are examples of tech journaling done right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;I like Anandtech but they have come into criticism recently, from some of their long-time readers, for fawning over Apple products.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which, instantly, should be reason enough to understand that said criticism is BS.&lt;p&gt;Apple products are among the best in the industry, period. Not just from the industrial design part of it, but overall: coherence of product vision, attention to important characteristics for the target market (battery time, portability, weight), quality machining and materials, attention to small details (from multitouch touchpad to magsafe adaptor and from backlit keyboard to magnetic, non protruding, lid hinge).&lt;p&gt;These people think that because they are not speced and designed like gaming PCs they are not worthy (&amp;quot;I can have a better GPU for less money in my custom box, and with xeon lights on the sides too).&lt;p&gt;And they attribute their popularity to some BS &amp;quot;reality distortion&amp;quot; effect, ignoring the fact that hardcore hackers, prominent programmers and old school neckerbeards, from Rob Pike, DHH, and Duncan Davidson to Jamie Jawinsky and Miguel De Icaza (the frigging founder of the Gnome desktop) down to Linus Torvalds, who waxes poetically about his MacBook Air as the best in the market.&lt;p&gt;So, &amp;quot;fawning over Apple&amp;quot; justs translates to &amp;quot;did some favorable reviews of products, instead of making up BS reasons to dislike them&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Mac Pro Review</title><url>http://anandtech.com/show/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yapcguy</author><text>I like Anandtech but they have come into criticism recently, from some of their long-time readers, for fawning over Apple products.</text></item><item><author>leephillips</author><text>AnandTech is often the only place that measures and reports anything about the screens of computers, tablets, and phones aside from how many pixels they have (color space, color accuracy, etc.). For this alone they are gold.</text></item><item><author>M4v3R</author><text>AnandTech hardware and Ars Technica&amp;#x27;s software (especially OS X) reviews are works of art by themselves. The level of details that goes into these pieces is nothing short of amazing. They are examples of tech journaling done right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gareim</author><text>Well that&amp;#x27;s silly. &amp;quot;Anandtech does great reviews unless it&amp;#x27;s favorable to something I&amp;#x27;m not, so then those reviews must be biased&amp;quot;. Either you trust Anandtech or you don&amp;#x27;t. And if you do, then you shouldn&amp;#x27;t call the reviews that go against your views as biased.&lt;p&gt;By &amp;quot;you&amp;quot;, I don&amp;#x27;t mean you, yapcguy. Just in general towards those that are criticizing Anandtech.</text></comment>