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I was put off AT the day I noticed they forgot to cover the Threadripper launch for weeks while they flooded the front page with dry half pagers about new Intel
by close04 7y ago
I was put off AT the day I noticed they forgot to cover the Threadripper launch for weeks while they flooded the front page with dry half pagers about new Intel motherboards (not benchmarks mind you, just snippets from the OEMs Press release). I asked about it in the comments and got a boilerplate answer that they strive to present quality articles to the readers.
They also had the Intel series 6 launch where they praised the 6600K and compared it to the 2500K to show “massive” improvements over the years. This while all the other websites noted “minimal speed boost for too big price”. Perhaps both true but the spin on it makes all the difference when showing the intention.
AT shows quite the Intel bias. And it’s not the Intel part that bothers me, it’s the bias part. They go out of their way to make Intel look better without outright lying, just selectively presenting the truth in a way that shines a much better light on Intel. This for me casts doubt on other articles.
I’m glad Andrei Frumusanu’s mobile reviews still have a home, being the best I have seen on the entire internet. But that’s the only segment on AT where I can be reasonably sure about impartiality.